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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  completely by chance. Case in point: About a month ago, I was heading from my lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... Earth, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences Department - I noticed a few

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and ... (fortunately?) before I got a chance to comprehend the next problem I saw the ... into one week, and again, just like any other place, there isn't a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to be a killer, since after the Physics test and some dinner, I ended up ... . But, through very valiant perseverance (and a lot of Youtube music

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  Keri produced entirely during "the Month of January/IAP." It was about a couple during the 1920's that decides to throw a party to make themselves feel better about their failed relationship, and the party turns out a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to write up a quick blog entry - so it has been quite an exciting time. I ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it was a great community where I still hang out and pset at frequently, Next made me particularly unhappy because it comes with a side of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Incoming freshmen, come to the Activities Midway tomorrow! Find a group where you can continue your hobbies and try something new.

  

  attention, which means that you will get a lot of free goodies and food. There ... Kesem table (#125) to meet my fellow counselors. For a list of groups that will be represented, click here. Below is a map of the table

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 30, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  I got this email a few days back... From: Laura Nicholson Subject ... actually write out a nice, thought-out entry, you think you can cover for me ... totally awesome to write a blog entry that day and encourage people to watch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my ... to tell but if a picture's worth a thousand words, then 18 pictures are ... other interns, plus a great many Google interns as well, live on base at

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... Mid-Atlantic, and the Carolinas here) We started in Miami with a nicely-sized crowd from throughout south Florida. It was a great meeting; the questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another ... to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark nd in miserable weather, I did homework. Yep. My host Jennifer (a

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  the last bit of my milk, which may have been a problem tomorrow ... and I are flying out to Los Angeles today for a one-week stay in the ... expiration. Two years ago, Sam and I visited San Francisco, and had a ton of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  just did the math -- I'm only getting $3.50 more an hour as a grad student than I was as a UROP. Well, at least my paychecks are bigger.) I ... a lab yet -- just like you don't pick a major at MIT until after your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I ... Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a ... it in all the pre-deadline craziness, but a recent entry by Melis

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record ... a new graduate dorm, pioneered a center for synthetic biology ... ://web.mit.edu/spotlight/lookback-2006/ for a look back at the spotlights. So what’s in store for 2007

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit for a week of vacation (YES!) - back on January 2. I hope you all have wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  sometimes takes a while to hear a response. Some of this may be attributed to ... ’t hear back within a few days, you should call him or her. If you then don’t hear back within a few days, then you should follow up with the EC office

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

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to ... said. “It helped me realize what a business we have become, the spin we ... -anxiety college admissions process. The academy discusses this in a new book, Less

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  wrong with that! But no, really, I'm not Jewish. Not even a little bit ... holding a fantastic event TODAY in our Sukkah on the Kresge Oval. We'll be ... was a mistake. Apparently having no apparent religion and a last name

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  . They haven't actually started classes yet - they have something called a ... , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been exercising this quite a bit with my switch to 5.112, adding my HASS - Disease

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006