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• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  noticed a severe drop off in the number of blogs, which may make perfect ... our dorm. We planned a "Legends of the Hidden Temple" themed party, a rave, breakfast every morning, a food fight, jello wrestling, and a ton

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  Back during IAP of last year I wrote an entry about a brand new "toy ... , and looking back at it I realize that that entry sounded a lot like a commercial, like Livescribe had slipped me a $20 under the table to write an

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a junior or a senior there and was blown away by the setting. "Absolutely

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  disappointment, nary a single spambot showed up to the CPW Meet the Bloggers night ... obstacles like CAPTCHAs and hyperlink filters. Take a close look at this picture, and there's a good chance that you'll find yourself*: *This

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  dinner tonight was a really bad idea.)(These people may also be my stomach.) (Also, to those who note that it's taken me a while to post again - WE'RE IN A RECESSION, PEOPLE.)(Actually, I really didn't post this for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  fam for a bit, so I flew home a week early. We went "up north" for Labor ... part of the lower peninsula, going "up north" usually refers to either a ... . In my case it's choice A.] On the 4-hour drive up, we stopped at Taco

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  everything you own in a few hours and still get some sleep? Laundry is tumble-drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky Christina Barcelona playing at the Kendall theater. Went in pouring rain in a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  enough, I had a big problem on my Dell where the installer crashed every ... days in a row and had a bunch of guys poke and prod at it. The verdict ... apparently wrong in my computer in a very big way. The guy recommended wiping

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the ... Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  So, the past week and a half or so ("has it really been that long ... Obama rally the night before the primaries. I've never attended a presidental anything before and it was definitely a cool experience, even though

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  -free vacation I had... they were a bit shocked. You're going all alone? they asked ... for set me up with a beautiful apartment in the Cite Universitaire in Paris' 14th, and how I even got a small stipend, my parents were just as

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large ... college admissions season can be a particularly anxious time for students. I ... going to college?" "What schools have you applied to?" "When do you get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I decided to do you one better and give you a bit of a dorm tour! So here are a few glimpses of the Haus. (The Haus/House spelling used to be an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  a massive sudoku grid. The motivational speaker Michael Fauntleroy ... coin and win the hunt in a mere 25--no, 15--no, 5 puzzles, if they'd only sign a simple contract with some unreadable fine print. After nearly all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  a professor at MIT, Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a ... admits that his path has been partly determined by a series of coincidences

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  Spackenkill Student is a Youthful Leader April 28, 2006 By Jeremy ... , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a ... a presence about her that people are drawn to," he said. The Hometown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... and the obvious intersection of her two majors. It's also what a lot of ... course 9 classes have covered a wider variety of subfields. I decided that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot ... . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference ... this new era where communication occurs rapidly and information is only a keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  's what's been going on in my life. Yesterday in 6.002, somebody brought a rabbit to class. A rabbit. She brought a rabbit to a lecture about Thevenin equivalence. I actually thought it was just a rabbit-shaped handbag or something

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006