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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  and keeps the weekend beautiful throughout the weekend. Unfortunately ... soon, but I'm so exhausted I've already fallen asleep twice during the ... Maguire). I've been so busy sitting out in the sun/getting my official EMT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Boston Marathon has only been cancelled once in its ... love the MIT energy initiative or whatever just as much as President ... out the weather report in mid-April and this is what I get... I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The MIT school fight song, "The Engineers' Drinking Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my ... , like there's a quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being to describe

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI ... , engineering, and entrepreneurship. The Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The highest ever cricket batting average of all time ... trying to avoid the deadly ice storm. After that I'll be taking 10.391: Sustainable Energy for the next two weeks. I'm too lazy to link to it right now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit ... some pictures from the MIT Admissions Holiday Party, which we held at ... demonstrates the GROOVE. Jenny & Marilee perform a duet. Corinne belts

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  ’s nothing to say here, except that it turned out that the air compressor Zach ... thousand balloons- coincidentally approximately the number of balloons we ... possibly the greatest picture ever taken...)   ...Spam?   Ruth

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   I ... the fact that our ECs are volunteers and have jobs and other commitments that might take them out of the area traveling, or otherwise be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The pretzel, invented during the 8th century AD, is shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days. I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... math and chemical engineering. [n.b. also see the story's homepage for a link to the news video; click on the picture of the video camera]

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because ... that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So everything else has been on the back burner. But I got all of your blog

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  grade, just thought I'd share. Mollie, maybe Adam wants to make this the ... back then, except I didn't wear glasses. The Rap: "Neil Armstrong is my name, Planes and space is my game, First American on the moon, that

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a ... something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating ... . I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  for a final this weekend, and thankfully the sun came out again after a ... ://web.mit.edu/olh/zephyr/. You can change the name that is displayed when you send Zephyr messages by logging into Athena and using the 'chfn' command. (This will also

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss ...und mein Leben ein Ziel hat.

  

  old. The semester is winding down, like someone's demented yo ... assignments for most of my classes are due this week. That means that while the ... to complain, but, hey, it's pretty much the same for ninety percent of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business ... are pre-requisites to the med school classes. If you're planning to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to the MPAA, the 1995 Mel Gibson classic "Braveheart" is "rated R for brutal medieval warfare." By the time you read this ... for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  A few quick notes for the Class of 2010... The deadline for ... the red CPW box on the left side. Also, tonight MIT students will be ... Washington, DC). If you went to one of the admitted students parties, send your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  7 to begin the hunt [12:48 PM] Now in Baker starting to solve the ... solve and have fun. SUNDAY [12:42 AM] The coin was found by The Evil ... in the basement of E18. HQ will be staying open for at least several

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Just 5 Days Left! Mystery Hunt begins in 5 days.

  

  cannibals and put to the following challenge: Each shall get one hat of either ... . Note: They are not allowed to talk to one another once the hats are on their heads; however, they are allowed to devise a strategy before the hat

  • by Bryan
  • January 8, 2006