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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our ... cobwebs instead of on the interwebs (Pun #1, check). Check out what I wrote ... that night, the lights in the building would be turned on to spell SOX

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... moved out of Next House. As someone who lived there for all four years of ... , “Of all the airports I’ve been in, Logan International is on my shit

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  restaurant. I give them an estimate of a party of 15, based on the number of ... lives–people who only had their common last name tying them together. I ... clowned on for using a TI-84 to calculate each person’s portion. Which, I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of ... one. I flew in to Logan Airport on the 7th, wearing my propeller hat ... hat has reappeared on special days including the first day of school

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  on the prodding of a few freshers, I found that I didn't have to live ... The same day the United States Government furloughed non-essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  temporary effect on taste. The berry’s miraculin glycoprotein (3 ... . Interest in miraculin spiked after a May 2008 New York Times article on ... living groups have had miracle berry parties, including Next House this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  Museum of Fine Arts). On the outside it seems like it’s a normal ... . The rooms are decorated for experiencing and living, not simply for ... displayed on the first floor of The Gardner. It’s almost framed off from

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... 've passed on pset- and exam- heavy classes in favor of those with huge end ... 't spend too much time doing that, though. You could be off living your own

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  's, well, a statistics class, with a focus on neuroscience ... your time well it could be death by that form of Java too. It lives up to its reputation as a time sink. I like that so much of it is hands-on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  experience - so where you live, along with various other related criteria such ... you post regularly on any admissions forums such as College Confidential ... intend to use it on the admissions site. (If we can trust Laura to make the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  communication and their effect on society, in particular that of minority ... ... myself. (Movie trivia #2) I was born in Queens, New York and I've lived in ... chance to accompany a faculty member on a recruiting trip. I was blown away

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  help you out. Beyond that, the guys on the team always make sure to leave ... great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and ... lacrosse, I’m also a member of Greek life, a senior chair on the Chem

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  like CMS/STS are rarely offered at high schools. So this list can help ... . Basically, at CPW we have 10 faculty members give 5 minute talks on whatever ... moment. This year, we had: Heather Paxson from Anthropology on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  on campus before heading off to Israel. Winter training basically ... ) Back on campus, IAP was in full swing. On campus, IAP is a time when ... tried Mystery Hunt for the first time, but epically failed to help the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question ... due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... water (...I hope) when I turn the faucet on high to fill a glass, but the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... helped them get to that stage. A perceived lack of gratitude is indicative ... professors; public transportation; everybody who has taken a chance on me; and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  do it better than everyone else. I approached everything we worked on ... delusional confidence, audacity, and a healthy chip on my shoulder.  Does that ... to the people who have helped me get to this point, and to myself

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  said, and piecing together the other half based on context, or visual ... button pin on their bag eye contact in public transportation the ... help others who have the same problems you have blasting music and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  free at 8 pm on Thursday. Yup - 4 hours before most everyone else in our ... Potter high through the night; three hours later, as I was helping someone finish up an orgo problem, the smile was still on my face. :) HP ♥ *don

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  question popping up on Facebook statuses lately. For me, 18.02A was the obvious culprit, but I can't help but mention some other preoccupations that ... didn’t plan on getting this bruise, and several others: But then I did

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010