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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  Japanese 10,000 yen note. I’m thrilled to go to a college any “Voltaire ... difference from the .5-1.5 hour commute from Lexington I had to do over the ... Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts” by Abby H. ‘20, “All the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  my dedicated “Breakfast at Baker” hour. Soon my 10am 7.012 (Biology ... schedule, I began sleeping through not only 10am 7.012 lecture, but also 11am ... about 5% of the final grade, assessed through recorded clicker responses

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  once I got back to French House. It lasted an hour. 10pm. My dorm ... was functioning at approximately 1/10 its normal speed. 2:30am. Got my ... . 5am. Finished decorating the cake. It involved picking up individual

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  on the back. Still, it got 30+ MPG, its 5spd stick shift was fun to ... . Year 2003. Mileage 69000. Shift gear 5 spd. Color Grey. Well maintained ... , lobby 10, get them while they're warm", and wait. Now it's like 10 PM on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  Epikasuccess thanks to the work of head chef Spang '10 and a miniature army of ... for the year. Maita '10 cooked a trough of wonderful German potato ... identities in equation (7.5.2) of Problem 5 that I have ever seen (it is also

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  talking with my classmates, I realized that people left anywhere from 1/5 to ... . My bed has never seemed so enticing before, except I still have a 5 ... /water sanitation), Sophia '10 (India, eye care), Kathy '10 (India, health

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  eyelids. 2.5 hours later, while on a plane streaming through this clear ... ascent to 10,000 meters or so of altitude. The night before, I had primly ... knuckle pool because nobody really wanted to walk 5 feet to get the sticks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  nonexistent. Nonetheless, the guy cooking hot dogs 10 meters away will tell you ... mechanics textbook known to studentkind. Rachel '10 (pictured above), who was ... student organizations, so I shelled out a whopping 5 bucks for a membership

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  the 5.310 (Experimental Chemistry) lab. Though the lab period is scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we ... for Continuous Manufacturing (a 10-year partnership between MIT and one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  present an average of 5 AP, why not go a step farther. TELL students that ... to a REASONABLE level. And, no matter if this offends someone with 10 ... in context, the kids have 4 and 5 AP classes on their schedules. Now

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5 ... , although it is one of the 5 least stressful metropolitan areas, ranking even ... went to the only Starbucks in a 10 mile radius (formerly the greatest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! Check your MyMIT account tomorrow morning (around 10AM ET) for next steps for admitted students. But for now, go celebrate!  

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  on the Dome 11/10: Fallout 4 Release 11/1: Hogwarts Institute of Technology 10/26: MIT Zoo 10/21: Hack to the Future 10/12: New Bexley 9

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn’t…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Something is coming, part 2… Snively and I are still working on something awesome.

  

  Snively and I are still working on something awesome. This week: (In reference to this.) (Photo credit: Liz Kimball ’11.) (See part one.) (Yes, we ate it afterwards.)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Halloween Every day in organic chemistry is a holiday.

  

  Happy Halloween from my organic chemistry professor, Professor Buchwald, and yours truly! Because organic chemistry doesn’t always have to be soulless. And neither does applying to college – remember, November…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!

  

  For those of you who haven’t seen today’s xkcd comic, I’m putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. …what, you don’t…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Love Math Snakes on a plane!

  

  Yes, I will be watching this at 10 pm Thursday night. This might be the end of Samuel Jackson's career, and I might as well be there for it. And stay tuned for an entry about my 21st birthday on Friday.

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Elephants? I see a lot of weird stuff around here.

  

  Well, you don't see this every day. 10 elephants cruised down Mass Ave and turned left onto Memorial Drive, parading right past Killian Court. I'm waiting for someone to put one on the dome. Coming soon

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  , AMS has 10 euro sandwiches (that are quite bland but are rather cute ... . My flight was the red-eye out of SFO on Friday night at 10:20 PM, and ... this point, I had precisely 5 people ahead of me to the front of the line

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009