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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  , waiting for my turn to sit. if you’re going for the first time, get the ... anyway and asked customers to come up to the kitchen and work for their ... and clap for you regardless of your grade, and it's meant to be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  asked him, please, to tell me how to be a writer, the good kind, a serious ... -Nehisi's spark-making June cover story, The Case for Reparations, and Roxane Gay ... . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... traffic. I was headed to alewife, where I would fetch my car for the ... to follow -- after a man's death, and I heard them praise him for his

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  how it came to be that we launch exploding pyrotechnics into the sky to ... is the edge of the Tropical Storm/Hurricane Arthur (now lowered to a Class 1 storm), the foreboding weather phenomenon that caused Boston to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  asking me for millions to develop new products, but I don't have the ... sent me checks for $20,000 each. I rushed to deposit the checks in my ... philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  it now. 6.006: Introduction to Algorithms How to write good code, and ... class is a prerequisite for almost everything else I want to take ... , suspiciously asking the class to introduce itself and not talking about protein

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  powerful, I'm liking this! I read on, hoping for an indication as to which ... I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back ... copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  ://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=6275565 3/26/07: An MIT doctoral student studies how addicted people are to ... After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring Break. Clearly, three days away from the Institvte is too much for me, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to ... question. I'll be interested to see how many people try to answer this, and ... Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... history was a real passion for me, I'll always be able to do it on the side ... best choice for me (they love to say, disdainfully, "isn't MIT a school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  learned how to drink from the milk bowl of MIT. I'm guessing this skill ... to offer and I understand that. As my fellow freshmen and I prepare for ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  cause I will not talk to you if you are not holding a muffin for me.). It ... recapped the whole semester in preparation for the final. To the tune of ... . Original lyrics by Tegmark and Figueroa with special thanks to Einstein for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of ... I was walking to my room for only the second time ever and somehow ... about how Mitra and I were going to run the Boston Marathon. And then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  get my degree and get out. I also wanted to learn how to make cool ... this is the place for you. I think in some respects you have to be a car ... So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  all over again how much I like these things. For lunch, we went to, wait ... super excited to start practice for real this year. Once or twice a week ... had to figure out how to drive the car (harder than you'd think

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  ,[/annotation] the massive flurry of dormspams as clubs begin to campaign for ... what it means for a day to feel like it’s NINETY DEGREES (ah yes ... for once I wanted to be slightly more normal and surely choose a flavour

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast ... how long the weeklong pset was going to take, my friends casually ... professor who knew how long the homework was going to take, and not I the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  accurate depictions of how things really were. How wonderful was it to get to ... I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... . Eventually I got to know him as the guy who lights up any and every room and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  looking for something to take your mind off of decisions and don't happen to ... scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this: Outline for Today's Lecture Oxidation Reactions of Alkenes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  special to me. They were the first who told me their stories, how growing ... and brought them to the point that made MIT the right college for them ... them to campus for CPW that April. I saw their nerves when they first

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012