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• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you ... awesome desktop image. 9. I was working on this:   It’s a wind

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... class are working with the Rickshaw Bank, a project of the Center for Rural Development, an Indian NGO. Rickshaw Bank loans rickshaws on a micro

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  MIT career learning in small class sizes and with a personal connection ... ) for just these reasons and here I thought I would give you a brief ... information) Concourse "is a small learning community that offers an innovative

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns ... other interns…as well the quirky side of Beijing. A few days ago, an article was passed around in a Beijing interns email thread, introducing the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  , sleeping a minimum of ten hours a night, and re-reading all my Harry Potter ... occasionally creeping on Anjali '12, who'll be working just a few benches down ... shortened my name to "H," lol. I started working in this lab just over a month

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references ... be a fun diversion for you as you wait. And for those who are not ... an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... they held some sort of leadership position in high school. Out of a list ... confident in their the ability to “function effectively as a member of a team

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Not Admitted A forum.

  

  There were a record number of applications for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a great number of ... open forum for you to talk. We understand that this may be a difficult

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  companies, is what a day as an intern is like. What would I be doing, who ... decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in ... at least) Friday: 5:00 pm - helped my friend 1 finish a sudoku puzzle

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  Imagine, if you will, the following situation... You join a dense crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by people ushering you inside; the person nearest you hands you a pair of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on ... because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life ... out" but that's a tough philosophy to motivate yourself on. As astute

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Gaga defacing my MIT ID with a permanent marker. Be warned: the newspapers will spin you a cybertastically-juiceless tale of a bleach ... notice as a truckload of detonated TNT, of a Polaroid press conference

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  In general, it would be considered a good idea to know more than just ... a lot of time on this site, cramming various scraps of information in ... Deutschland. I'm going with four other girls as part of a MISTI (MIT Science and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as ... Introduction to the Institute and serves a first introduction (or second, after CPW) to all the different dorms. Each dorm makes a short video

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  Per Child, or MIT's Public Service Center - to name just a few - for examples of how MIT students are already involved in making the world a ... the Best Way to Make a Difference. Sadly I was unable to get him to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a ... -midnight residential Cambridge and instead found a page of half-finished notes wrung from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  see, for the first time since 2006, there is FINALLY a hack on the Great ... actually being "on" the Great Dome, there's a hack mounted to the trench wall ... for, you silly goose. Affixed near the Great Dome is a near

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the ... strive to: - provide a safe space for the MIT LBGTQ community, including allies - achieve a better sense of community with its cross

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all ... thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  him at a book fair in November and he told me that he was deeply ... spending quite a bit of time together assembling applications and preparing ... table with a hot cup of tea and opened my hometown newspaper ‘The Star

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008