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• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  reason (*cough* global warming *cough*), it was 54F (12C) and sunny. I got ... : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace ... a poem. I was especially proud of us for the rhyme "three eight four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through ... Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I ... my etiquette training, but fear not, I've renewed my Boy Scout

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  research projects; it's my turn! So since sophomore year, I've been working ... their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to every professor at MIT who I thought was doing something that could be

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beautiful snowfall A nice snowfall today in Boston.

  

  The view outside my apartment window this morning, as I sat down at my desk to read applications. Coming shortly: Questions Omnibus.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  So with all this free time on my hands (not as much as I originally anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... of these books, it's the fifth or sixth time I'm reading the book. Some

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 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 Ellen Harris, whom I heard speak on Saturday night. Basically, I attended ... ://www.cnn.com/video/ to watch it =) (I blogged this class back in July) Here I am during

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  for the spring. I was given a slot in the French 1 class and am pretty sure I'll do it. I'm excited! I've always wanted to learn French.

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  4 8 15 16 23 42 If you already know what those numbers mean, this entry is for you.

  

  So I'm a Lost fanatic. Long-time readers know that Alias and The OC ... lead. I had lunch with Axiak last week and gave him the numbers. I ... : the islandiswaiting Now someone explain that. I declare this the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  Some things I did since the last time I wrote: Attended 13 ... many bruises, and I'm not even kidding. One of the coolest things we ... flip in the air instead of a twist.   Wrote two essays. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  weekend, I woke up early, packed some physics notes, and headed to Boston's North Station where I would board an Amtrak train for the day. Amtrak ... from the workload. :-) Leaving East Campus, I strolled down Amherst

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  Council, and the 5 sororities make up the Panhellenic Association. When I came to MIT for CPW, I didn't really understand what fraternities were outside of what I'd watched in movies, and I didn't really plan on joining

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... , tied with CalTech. I'm not going to bother complaining about the well ... students searching for colleges. Should there be rankings? ABSOLUTELY! If I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Pretty much every day, I remind my friends that "if you come up to Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all have a great time." However, still, it's one of those things that I never

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Geneva, Dinner in Milan Hop on the train and check out some sights leaving France, traversing Switzerland, and entering…

  

  I set out from Paris' Gare de Lyon to continue my journey using France's famous TGV (train

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  So, being an incoming frosh, there's really not much I can talk about. Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  moments. I remember a few years ago, when I was a freshman at MIT, I thought, "I would never do a program like that. I would hate to leave MIT for a year." There are things that I have missed about MIT. I've missed friends

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  you for your birthday wishes =) I'm in the office today, reading ... to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since probably late October. Luckily, I've done so many of them, I can talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP this year (aside from Mystery Hunt), I took a couple breaks from reading ... classes earn a Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree in Charm. When I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005