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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community ... Technique describes as a "collective photo blog" and which allows you to view ... interesting to see not just what people do over the course of a typical day, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  " and it's a wee bit difficult. Difficult in that since Friday morning at ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in ... , photograph dome from afar to share on blog. YAY! They put a BUMP on the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  3:30 on Patriot's Day Morning and rode off into a quiet, misty land ... before 6 am, and a huge crowd had already gathered. There were three tiers ... /ladder constructions, and those in the trees. Niki '09 and I grabbed a bench. She

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the ... they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I ... to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Happy New Year! I hope you guys are having a great 2008 so far. Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... principle of enrolling a maximum of one third of our class in EA. Recent

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... Overture. The hackers' apparent leader delivers a short speech. "Remember ... vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  . ------------------------------------- Becca wrote: "I had my interview almost a month ago, and it's still not on ... ' Matt, PSU '11 wrote "Might a prospective transfer participate in [the ... adventurous enough to want to give Senior Haus a try!" Absolutely

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  sounds incredibly daunting, and to some people, even a little crazy or ... to do it. If you're a junior or sophomore, that's great, you have ... 'm guessing most of you are seniors, so you'd be looking at taking a gap year

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  will lose your deposit at the other school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist ... for a day before leaving for Albuquerque and I can tell you that it was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  . "Working" had a profound affect on me as I thought about work, and the basic ... that stayed with me for many years was called Car Hiker, a profile of Al, a man who for thirty years, parked cars in a garage. HIs nickname was

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  . This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on My ... Report and Transcript, Evaluation A, Evaluation B, Testing Requirements ... done, so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, we'll be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops ... July and boy, what a great concept. We had two chocolate fudge cupcakes ... mechanical engineering required for such a restaurant. They had this really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  As promised, a detailed recount of Bryan's Wednesday. 7:45 AM: Alarm ... . My breakfast. My best friend telling me I'm crazy because I'm taking a ... have a *great* view from my window in lab. Until 9:57 AM: Finite element

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "Hey Ruth ['07], I need a did you know?" "Oh, those are ... 's name is Quicky... that could be a did you know." So I just got this e ... Chemical Engineers, which I'm not even really a member of. From: Maxine Date

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  I did, online. But today I decided that was a bad move, so I switched ... less than a second. No paperwork, no irritating confrontations with raspy ... now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This World Cup was the first time that a country ... -Montenegro split into separate countries a few weeks before the beginning of the ... , Kendall '07, and I got a picture in front of the very popular United States

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country ... have to look forward to is a down market. According to this article, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off ... awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  lateral epicondylitis?" I won the "funniest answer" prize (a free entree and ... thought it was a pretty reasonable answer. I know I promised an entry on a portrait of my UROP as a young man, but I got so involved writing the stream

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  is Parafilm? Parafilm M is a unique self-sealing, moldable and flexible ... a "dead fold". And as if this is not enough, Parafilm can be stretched ... Parafilm is. Basically, a high-tech version of Glad Press + Seal. Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006