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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ahead like infinite corridors. A year ago: I tried/ditched required

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  . Pictures, links, narrative, and humor are a lot of work, and past freshman ... you a little insight into my current mental state, I'll dump it here ... entry every time there's a quick update (every several days or so) and in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  great, until a catastrophic hard drive failure over spring break landed me without a way to recover my saved passwords in firefox (my partially ... 've finally succeeded in hacking my own account, which presents a strange

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  Well here are a whole bunch of interesting things, and I'm just going ... saying "Hey look! I'm published!" is really going to make a difference. It ... nice of them." Okay, now I'm just being a snob. It also doesn't help

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Two Things Just a quick update

  

  1) I'm going to be taking a 2.005 test in about an hour. Wish me luck! 2) The Prudential Center is flashing blue and yellow. . . does this mean snow tomorrow?

  • by Snively '11
  • November 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another fun problem Skip if you don't want to do more physics.

  

  If you liked last night's dynamics problem, here's a new and exciting one for you!

  • by Snively '11
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... expected us to treat a completely unmoderated shared document with respect ... of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became the ... Square (I know, I know….give me a break, my title is long and I’m not a ... attend Morehouse The first degree was fun so I did it again So I earned a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quantum Mechanics ...

  

  Quantum pset is slow-going tonight. I was having a lot of trouble until I saw this: What luck! My many questions were all answered. THANKS, CONAN! -luvlulu

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action applications, I grabbed a Zipcar Prius and set a course for New Hampshire. After ... hosts a reception at his enormous hilltop mansion, "WestWind." The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  video game and joystick, a detector for interplanetary communication, HDTV ... , a senior majoring in Course 6 to learn about her experiences with the ... Corporation. Currently, she is a lab assistant, or L.A., for a new class called

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alive and In London Updates from the Road

  

  Currently writing to you from the London Apple Store. Spring Break has been a blast so far. Once I find free wireless, I'll upload the real entries.

  • by Bryan
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  This entry is a lot of things. Read! First here are some pictures ... it over IAP when a single became available) and was kind enough to let ... pictures for the sake of clarity. Because you see, we have a second

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  a week (~20 people, discussion class) fun fact: Professor Lipkowitz ... a week (~20 people, workshopping class) fun fact: "Diaz’s 1996 book [Drown], a collection of coming-of-age short stories set both in Santo

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over ... ... Guessers within half a percent either way [12378, 12502] were Anonymous (from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... Sciences, or EAPS) and was a member of the a cappella group the Muses. Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heading back up Goodbye Maryland, hello Boston!

  

  Helllo! Today’s the day…I’m going back to good old Boston. Any last minute questions about classes or life??? Post away…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  The MIT homepage has a great spotlight today about the Institute's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  got me an answering machine or a "so-and-so isn't home." Regardless, it was pretty fun, and there was a lot of free pizza and stuff to drink ... jump right into French 2 for the next term.) I have a 150-175 word

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.

  

  So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon.

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2006