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• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  walked into her office with eight classes slapped onto my registration form ... about classes with my advisor for 10 minutes, and walked out with seven ... ), with which I almost completed an entire Statistical Mechanics problem set

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed ... cuprates". For those of you with complexions darker than mayonnaise, that ... the word "Superconductor" leaves you with an image of the world's lamest

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  those hours. Good luck with the completion of the semester and your ... . There was philosophy, with 2 problem sets due this week, which I keep ... end up with a black hole for a star). Not to mention I haven't blogged

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  want to do when you get here. With so many events to choose from, it ... . This will be awesome. There will be beavers filled with candy for you to break open with a baseball bat. -Meet the bloggers! Friday, 6:30pm, 2nd

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... freshman year with the highly competitive process of choosing the ring ... ring with the beaver and have a three-piece construction, with MIT and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  とうございます！） So I'm in Japan this IAP! Last IAP, I spent it in Madrid, with MIT ... morning (10-1) with Profesor Gessa, and stayed with a Spanish family ... . Through some arranging and some rearranging, I'm now staying with an elderly

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  we wrote (with Susan '11) over last summer. I'll be blogging about ... -making class with Laboratory for Chocolate Science, one of MIT's more...unique student groups. Mm, chocolate. Teaching an introductory LaTeX class with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  blown that trip away with its winds. How could he leave his family, living in a house with no utilities, sweltering in the humidity, standing in ... September weather? Well, with schools and businesses closed, and the house in

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  to the campus gallery to view art, and waking up and living with it ... tank. It got infested with fruit flies, and we had to get it fumigated ... is no longer available for loan. "Students who live with art in their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised ... : Okay, so I'm not much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right ... Bay have incredible views and great parties along with it. 3. The Mass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  report to the gym between 7:45 and 8:15 am. With 2,335 graduates, there was ... about to fight with a tiger (though sometimes getting through MIT felt ... this year and happened to be next to me (our last names both start with A

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  freshman year, stayed on campus, that is, working with the LIGO burst team, next to the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (with the enviable name ... 've already talked about what the deal is with my research (I'm continuing from

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  I took my first final today: 8.022, Electricity & Magnetism with ... with my physics requirements. =) Enough about finals, though! As I said ... Institute. To get into the specifics, I'll be working with Professor of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about ... opportunities, or something completely random, I was always writing with you - the ... way. When Saturday finally rolled around, we were all right there with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  entire school day. How have I achieved this? It all started with my alarm ... Z-center to make an 11am Jiu Jitsu workout with the American Jiu Jitsu ... squeezed in an hour-long workout. With the rest of my day, I will work in my

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  the audience to help with moving the show along. When they asked for two ... "Great, we have a time keeper! Do you have a watch with a second hand?" Uh ... clapping, it was pretty amazing. I was quickly handed a watch with a second

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  interests were. I deliberately decided not to come up with a plan for that ... with which I'm involved center on politics in one way or another. I ... discussion of American foreign policy, and, along with a friend, founded the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  filling it with cells, he focuses on assembling the individual pieces. These “living Legos” can be combined with “building blocks ... the gastrointestinal tract and lungs, and test new drugs. With over 14

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised ... : Okay, so I'm not much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right ... Bay have incredible views and great parties along with it. 3. The Mass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  with a reversed brass rat and ironed shirt Killian Court Lecture Series ... with MIT ID? Music practice rooms -- serenade your special someone in a ... ? Star Market -- if you can't grocery shop with this person, you probably

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007