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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  my ticket validated for the next day and hopped in a taxi bound for my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  every week in my lab, looking at worms, running gels and blots, and ... kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the ... scientist this semester, and the fruits of my labor have more than justified

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  We’ve had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this month Ceri blogged about the MIT Maker Faire. Earlier this year Dawn and I wrote a white paper for…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  Okay guys, here’s the deal…Halloween is quickly approaching, and I have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven’t actually dressed up as anything in the past…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will ... when (if?) my schedule ever finally calms down. But I'd hate to drop it ... make yourself sit down and write something from start to finish. My hard

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  + bagel 057. Flavour of gum you've chewed? mint 058. Shoes you've worn? my ... ? responding to email 072. What's your current desktop picture? my kids 073. What ... using a wall)? no 079. Who would you like to see right now? my mommy 080

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of “standing cafes” in Germany was apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have at least three bathrooms. Hey there.…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  . :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... we're investigating some interesting topics in my intercultural ... went for a walk around downtown Boston. I hadn't talked to my Dad in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  is a kickstarter called The Institvte: A Photobook: Hi! My name is Mark

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe it's because yet another good friend of mine just had surgery for breast cancer, or maybe it's because I’m reading this great Pulitzer Prize

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  . (See this article, one of my all-time favorite Tech columns.) One of the ... all day, I got bored in third grade and started reading books inside my ... fond memories of my 18.02 study group doing psets freshman year while

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer, I'm left to just sit around and ponder endlessly, refining my taste ... recursion unless it's by accident If I just so happen to have my natural

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  keep my room at a feisty 80 degrees this winter and start a refuge ... difficult to think about world beyond MIT. And that's only my excuse. You ... which my tour guide responded, “Oh, those belong to a member who started

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  As you may or may not know, my job this summer is turning turkeys ... products. Basically, my grad student Andy and I are building a reactor and ... Maillard reaction. Over the past year, my job has involved everything from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  took a stroll and Raphael snapped a picture. My hair felt orange. We ... the rain fly." I thought: "Why do my feet feel wet?" We didn't tighten ... pants, wool socks, and hiking boots. I was spared; I had lined my clothes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  Overall, everything’s good so far. The heavy work schedule over IAP was helpful, because now I’m fine with getting up for morning classes :-) A couple of classes I’m paying…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm… If you guessed “Blowing up the alamo…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  my favourite drinks back home in South Africa; naturally, I was excited ... cream soda I couldn’t believe my eyes – surely it was just some animation ... second opinion from my friends… To my horror, none of them saw the glaring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ... I'd share my thoughts with you. Things I am excited about: my new

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  status, and I'm just sending pictures of my office. Matt and Ben are doing ... the EA process. So consider my blog, for now, to be a bit of counter ... head-on shot of my desk. It's the place that I store my most important

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005