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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  get bored in Boston! It's such an amazing city, with so many things to ... weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets, papers, and reading, but for most, they degenerate into a remarkably fun

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  negotiation, and making compromises in order to achieve my character’s goals ... role was looking for items I wanted, which were in packets taped to the ... all five buildings. This was time-consuming. In order to actually

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  haven't seen in 3 months are coming back to campus. This is what August ... color...or paint the room back to Institute Off-White. Even though the ... What does August mean to you? For me it used to mean that school was

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  those who are morally opposed to clicking on hyperlinks in my blog, here ... -meta-puzzle allows you to run around wildly on campus in search of the hidden item ... flaunted in our admiring, frustrated faces. Examples included (1) an Apples-to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  of the Fae was used to grieve loved ones, ie a mother that died in ... extra questions on the spot, which we also delved in to. I’ve never ... hurting the author’s feelings; in contrast, this atmosphere allows us to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... oldest mural in East Campus, and according to legend, it was originally ... story after, but here’s the legend of how murals in EC came to be, as told

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  seemingly obvious hole in the middle. So I know how easy it is to dwell on ... this week (Wednesday, in chemistry), but it's my favorite class (and not ... worried about it than I am about my first major paper due the day after both

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox' big comeback victory against the Yankees in the American League ... the Bartlett White House, some historic things take precedent

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

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  Ok, so long story short (I'll blog the whole thing later), I use firefox to remember my password to login to the MIT blogs website. I ... without a way to recover my saved passwords in firefox (my partially

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  to give in to Lukman—I estimate about 99% of us bought from him at some point—had to find a way to cook the ramen in the absence of kettles. We ... bit of ramen in those extended palms, a mother forced to feed children

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It ... some more images as to what I actually look at and analyze: The white ... in order to amplify the correct fragment I'm interested in, I can run

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  , start-to-finish, all the way through: melodrama, pieces in space, funeral ... mailing list, people are discussing whether a new paper claiming to have ... time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  . Conveniently enough, my UROP is in Building E25, almost right next to Senior Haus ... is ready for the birthday boy to be let back in. The cupcakes are ... everyday you get to surprise one of the greatest admissions officers in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  questions asked in the past two blog entries. Any questions from earlier entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and ... from scratch to see where you are now in contrast, in particular what you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the ... will discuss preparatory papers. On March 1, we'll release some open problems for the students to tackle together. If the students reach

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... someone to do it this year because Audrey was going to be in Wales ... . Basically, Giant Aliens, called “angels” in the NGE universe, have come to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are ... (Sorry if you were expecting to read more about MIT, but exploring ... of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... of my time in lab last semester and sophomore year was trying to ... matrix analog in which we'll try to seed the cells so it ends up looking

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... to the 44 people who checked out my blog yesterday even though I haven ... to jam up if adjacent keys were struck rapidly in succession. So, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  . I did really well in the class, and even enjoyed it to a point ... definitely reinforced what I learned in 3.012. I am excited, however, to get ... I took our advisees out to Toscanini's, the best ice cream business in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014