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• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  It was sometime during Act III of finals study week, in the pressure-cooker minutes before the curtains fell on our loose-spined textbooks and leafed-over study guides, that I asked aloud,…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  Hello Interwebs, it’s me Chris. As you can probably guess from the title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day for me, much…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  By this time I’m sure most of you are finally enjoying summer. (Let’s have a contest, who got out the latest for summer vacation? post your final day of school…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• 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 group also picked up whatever viral assemblage has been partying in my lungs lately. Circumstances are ripe for…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  There are no directions in Japan. The buildings are numbered, but in a generally useless, chronological order. When you ask for a map, there are no street names, just landmarks…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years, as I’m working at CTD again this year as an RTA for Neuroscience and living…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  Blogging, for me, has never been about immediacy. Life as it happens is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light. Life after it happens is at least…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  Well, here it is- the big day. I have to report to the athletics center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into Killian…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I’m on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting through Seoul, and I’m holding it. This is not because of lack of access – I’m sitting in the…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries which begin with my eternal apologies for their lateness, and the fact that I haven’t blogged in “forever.” (The earlier…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  Part I: Academics   “You do know that MIT is unlike almost any other college in the country, right?”.   A few months ago I was cooking dinner with my…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  My top left desk drawer hates society, government, and everything dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open, the entirety of the drawer declares mutiny…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laptop There should be a special place in hell for laptop thieves.

  

  dammit, my laptop and camera got stolen out of my room. Campus police has been thusfar unhelpful as usual in locating the perpetrators. These entries might take a lot longer…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  Let me tell you, flying home during the summer is much less painful than flying home during the winter. This is actually the first time I’ve flown in the summer…

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three-quarters-ways done with MIT posts that have been popping up left and right and the all-around mayhem of everybody waxing poetic about their…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  Pan-Fried Chicken with Rice and Vegetables 3 chicken legs Rice (basmati or jasmine works pretty well) Carrots, snow peas (or assorted vegetables) Garlic and onion for saute Oil (for saute…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal team actually removing the Apollo Lunar Lander from the great dome. This gives a great look into…

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It’s time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a profession? Sorry to those of…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  Late on Sunday evening, just before the first day of MIT’s finals, hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in the middle of Killian Court.…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  That’s it ladies and gents, sophomore year is over for yours truly. I’m officially a junior, halfway done with college, done with thermodynamics, and not even close to done packing.…

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009