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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  the same day. My comment to Mollie: "Wow, you guys are going to share not only a birthday but an anniversary! What are the chances?" Most people who use the expression "what are the chances" in casual conversation

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  the time of that statement, this would correspond to Wilt having slept ... twenty-minute drive from my house. The only thing I scored this semester was the music for "All In Green Went My Love Riding," my final project

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last night, the MIT women's volleyball team defeated Bridgewater State College to advance to the semifinal of the NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to ... hockey, so we postponed my first day by six months.) Monday was the 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  Today is one of my favorite days of the year: the end of daylight savings time. There's nothing like enjoying the only 25 hour day of the year by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  /East Bay this week. Many thanks to those who attended! The week started with ... year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest. At most of our meetings, we'll see somewhere in the 75-300 people range

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  As though we weren’t hosed enough…

  

  ...we've been graced with a fire truck on the Great Dome! In case you can't tell, that inscription says "MIT Fire Department". The CPs ... good officers staring at the Great Dome from their bikes: As a measure

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  Beginning on Wednesday, the Admissions Staff will go out across North ... , and I'll be off to Hartford, Connecticut. You can view the entire schedule and RSVP online. Following the Hartford meeting, I'll be heading out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  Wow. The last few days have been absolutely insane. You see, once I found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of ... , that wasn't necessarily the best idea. I didn't leave myself very much

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Fun With Photoshop Do you have mad Photoshop skills? Show us.

  

  post, I'll keep you entertained with the following. As you know if you ... fan. Not only does she love the riveting storylines and character ... the comments and we'll let the community decide who wins the contest.

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  The annual Mystery Hunt (history here) begins tomorrow at 12:17pm in MIT's Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post ... does, however, come with a title: "Cookie Monster." The answer, by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  it's gone Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of my eighteen years. I'm back at MIT now -- got here the ... in Cambridge, a new land of activity and opportunity, all the while

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9 ... . My excuse is that I had to haul the Christmas presents I bought for my

  • 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 / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  that receiving the news that you are deferred has to be disappointing (to say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you ... you see the situation from a strategic and global vantage point. Before

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  Stay tuned for an entry on the phenomenal Handel scholar Professor ... meeting me. When he finally did, he told Mollie it was "the most painful experience" of his life. BREAKING NEWS: A video about MIT's "Sex and the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  Earlier this evening, I received the official email announcing ... exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band's coveted SPAM scholarship. As those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), which is located just down the road from MIT! I pass this spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  Each Wednesday, The Weekly Dig (my favorite rag) hits the newsstands ... .C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes supposedly defended the city of Syracuse from a Roman siege by training a mirror (aka Death Ray) on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005