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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ... laundry, change currency, buy travel books, and sleep. After a pizza lunch ... to pick up a travel book. (Yes, I waited until the last minute to

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  multipurpose 9x13 pan is a Pyrex pan which costs only $8.00? It's my last night ... photos from my phone to my computer, and I'm a college student and just can ... purcahsed a lottery ticket in my otherwise typical suburban life. So, on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  's Mom and I have baked four award-winning nut rolls, a tradition that we started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... dorm, Burton-Conner, has a full kitchen and suite lounge for every 6

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all my classes for the long haul. (Truth be told, I've never dropped a ... swimmingly; for example, we had a great discussion in 7.31 (Current Topics in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate ... efficiency. Bryan Owens (check out his blog at bryan.mitblogs.com), a junior ... currently developing a bioreactor that may potentially be used to accelerate

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... follow her around as a living fashion accessory. Her inspiration in this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  Summer Motto #456-1A: Rock the free stuff, always. So following ... England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course. Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal ... in A-Entry for the summer -- actually, strictly speaking, I had been living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  populations. I've come to see the Internet (and now blogs) with a strong ... you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as ... be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this blog? Au

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  President back in the day. :) First, a trivia question: the name of this blog, A Land of Dreams and Fire, is yoinked from a quote in a fantasy novel - can anyone name the book and/or the author? A little bit about me, in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  was David Bauer from New York City, who did a project on quantum dots ... ceremony is a black tie event; I was sporting my tux. It's a pretty swank ... , in a way, I was. Science isn't celebrated enough in our society, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  MIT performance groups give students the opportunity to buy a serenade ... sitting in class my freshman year, listening to a (differential equations?) lecture, when, out of nowhere, come the Muses, MIT's all-female a capella

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

  XREG

  

  applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since

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

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... " letters, or handwritten notes from admissions offices complimenting a ... why likely letters aren't a part of our process is that our process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  !, 2003 (this puzzle, instead of a word answer, has an image for an answer. It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... during the "reading season." A reading day is a day that we admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that telecaster's politics, but within that nomenclature you can a couple nerdy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough featured on the news, but I didn’t really understand that there was a researcher (or more likely, a group of researchers) behind the finding. Granted

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  inspiring that I got the inclination to write a whole entry on them. So, if ... ! Later tonight, this will be an entry about IM Sports... Conner 2 has got a dodgeball match tonight and afterward we're having a post-dodgeball fondue

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... loan originators, loan servicers, and financial aid offices. A proud father of two daughters, Daniel also has a budding career as: - poet

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  some puzzles, which will be marked. This paragraph is not a puzzle. I ... about puzzles, like On puzzles above and below. There’s a lot of non-puzzle content in this post too. Worthwhile puzzlehunt information What is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020