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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  improving my quality of life over the past 48 hours. 1. The Burton ... . J. P. Licks, the ice cream store of choice of many MIT bloggers, for ... something to blog about from the afterlife. 5. Ben, for treating Mitra and me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  Adam is the baby of the family and his mommy won't let him drive to Maine in the winter), and I am spending three glorious days of complete ... , I'm kind of running around because I'm jet-lagged like crazy (Adam and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  trombone in the high school marching band, and they're marching in the Rose Parade on January 2. Watch for the Pickerington band! And maybe watch for me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  I walked through the front door of my local Barnes and Noble today and was immediately confronted by a colossal display for the Twilight ... of the series and stopped reading. "Oh, I hate those books," I say

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  changes), and lpq (to check printer status)). All of the other times I spent ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... from them about the status of my computer tomorrow, but if it costs more

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background. or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... make it yet. i can ignore the deadline and process my feelings in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  got me with it and I knew I would use it one day. Soooo worth the 365 day wait.   *static---commercial break* Be the life of your ... it was. Smugness crept onto my face as I began thinking of what comical

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  see the numbers on Wednesday night, when Elliott got voted off? Each of the three top contestants received 33.xx% of the votes - statistically it was a 3-way tie. Let's do the math, and please correct me if I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... advice and instructions for deferred students on the blogs soon. ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... have some additional advice and instructions for deferred students on the ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours ... number of subjects—things you always wanted to learn and topics you never ... For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  broken record emailing the hall with all kinds of displeasure and ... with the lights off. A cat could be sleeping in one of the stalls, and ... commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT prefer public school or private school?

  MIT receives diverse and interesting applications from students in every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school ... through that context and admit those students who are the best matched with
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  ) try some of the 200+ restaurants within a mile of Lobby 7. And my dorm ... package on the April 1st date we were told?" Joe, I'll look into it. And ... out, too. Carly wrote, "I'm kind of worried about the food situation at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  wasted. Since this is on the admissions blog and it is December, some of ... ask them out. The reasoning was simple: it was embarrassing and high ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is ... Bulthaup in 2001, the year he graduated from MIT with a Bachelor's and Master ... the 2009 Young (under 35) Innovator of the Year. It's my former GRT

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  orbitals, and learn more about the degrees of freedom than you could ever ... an explanation of atomic number and its implications at the atomic ... complicated: Heh. This one is sold at the end of every fall and spring by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chem Lab Boot Camp!

  

  , filmmakers followed around the participants of 5.301 Chemistry Lab Techniques as they struggled with the intensive, high stakes world of ChemLab Boot Camp. The footage has now been edited together in an engaging way and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  Market in three weeks and the shelves of my formerly bomb ... that the lady in front of me in line was paying in cash, I decided to push my social skills to their natural limits and semi-politely asked the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for ... "), "tan". Then you get to the hyperbolics and it's "sinch," "cosh" and ... at MIT. I mean, come on--he grows ears out of the backs of lab mice

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006