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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... then I would have just looked like a dumb freshman who wished her

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  Dorms. Multistep retrosynthesis. A cappella music. Hacks. Everything ... education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT ... played a part in that total happiness. So did the welcome event and

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my ... once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks, like there's a quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being to describe

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  , so maybe I'm not a mad scientist. But, when people ask me where I am ... my response. I am taking the following: 7.02- Biology Lab- A notorious pre-med requirement…with a grueling 18 credits (Each week, we have 2

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  You can get a perfect GPA and lead every extracurricular activity on campus, but if you don’t pass a swim test and complete 8 Physical Education ... ’s right, MIT requires you to graduate with a strong mind and body, while

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  I'm a little nervous right now, because I have my first major exam ... chipped in $35 and rented cars and a cabin (apparently, MIT students can ... almost fell off a giant mountain. Zozer '07 smashed a fly with a spatula

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  your security blanket there. So I became a legal adult a few months ago ... we understood that cheating is bad and to bring a certain type of ... passed out of 18.01 with a 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam. My high school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  their college admissions-themed issue. Similarly, Newsweek featured a chat ... college admissions-themed issue -- it is also worth a read. Here's the TIME.com transcript of the Q & A with Dean Marilee Jones: Ever since she first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  recently won a $2,500 scholarship from the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach. Despite a demanding academic schedule, he still finds time for a social life ... , presented the scholarship to Kubber in a ceremony at the museum last month

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  picnic a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing him and his band of ... parodies, and we also played a long, very hot, and relatively uncoordinated ... , apparently he is writing. His book, "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  "Doonesbury Voting Hack", a web site (adorned with art borrowed from the Town Hall) which enabled would-be-ballot-stuffers to spew out over a million votes in a single night. "We're all running cgi hack scripts" lol'd one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  It's been a while since I've done a Questions Omnibus... Harlan '10 ... recieve a reply, is that because I sent it in so quickly?" Harlan '10, I am writing your name with a '10 after it. This means we have received your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  A few random notes today... Mystery solved! You may remember that a while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the ... people! First, I got an email from Eric more than a week ago (to give you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  and a half hours in the pouring rain to lose a field hockey game. Bleh ... her read my books. We have a symbiotic relationship.) In other news, I ... , just to wrap up a few loose ends from my last couple of entries: A lot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had ... there and make it a triple.) So when someone elsewhere in the building moved out, they "un-crowded" my room and gave me a single on the Conner

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  Browsing Matt's blog reminded me that I have a blogiversary on the horizon as well. A quick check revealed that I missed it - it was August 6 ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  Conner 5 as a nice blonde older sister who just finished getting her master ... a while. Conner 2 is the adorable youngest daughter, outfitted in a ... , a little frustrated by being the only boy and by being the proverbial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to Changing World Technologies, you take a turkey, cut off all the meat and ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  Harry Potter fame) tried to kill the Great Dome with a curse, leaving a ... community went to Six Flags". You don't stop being a Child of Florey (another name for a 5th East-er, if you couldn't figure that out) because of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  closest mall to campus; a free shuttle leaves from Kendall square about ... able to replace it overnight. Back at home, we have a Rottweiler-German Shepard mix, Toby. My younger brother got it for his birthday a few years

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005