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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... second test wasn't much better (9/20) but was within a point of average

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs ... video game nerds. Order of the Stick D&D comes to life, basically ... distraction, right? TVtropes One of the most addicting and hilarious sites I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured ... UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  taking my keys out of my pocket and looking at my recently ... of a pset), the situation isn’t any different. It’s a brand new, red ... picture of black-colored beaver swimming gracefully through water

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  all about The Month of March. Not that it's over. But it's pretty much over. Kind of. I don't know about y'all, but these were the longest three weeks of my LIFE. Okay, so, I'm not going to talk about the fact

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you ... swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently got elected social chairs of Burton 1, and to celebrate that we had a Pi

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... saving time didn't help me leave the office before dark. Most of you should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is ... complaints, they are still present. -Watching Dramashop's performance of Suzan ... of term. -Because it is due tomorrow afternoon. -Yes, this is insane

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  project done for one of my classes, 2.671, Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific ... of course, everything in science is easier said than done. Now for my

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... lived in a boarding house in downtown Lausanne. There was a lot of construction outside my window. On one of my first days in Lausanne, I visited

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... busy/lazy. Despite that, I played a lot of tennis and it was my basically ... 's beautiful Zesiger Center (a.k.a. the Z Center) or by Memorial Drive. Of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... 'm sure that a bunch of people going to the beach isn't enough to supply the

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

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  kidding about that one...sort of.) Actually, receiving my ring made me feel ... , I put on my rings, along with those of my friends, Anna, Shaye, and ... *stunning* rings, we had dinner in an adjacent room. There were a bunch of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good ... meals a day and undoing an entire month's worth of exercise. Bring it on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT. Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4 ... available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won ... Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Courtesy of the MIT News Office: Schrock was cited by

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  powerpoint presentation thousands of miles away. I remember hearing talk around the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help ... deceive you. Kresge is 1/8 of a sphere. I once walked by it and remarked to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don ... really have to happen?" Those of you who plan to be engineers, perhaps you

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie ... one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in ... an awful lot of meals in a dining hall. Notice that I said "a dining

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005