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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  I hear Early Action decisions went out. Congrats to those of you who got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people ... would have been clueless. And I don't generally trust pop culture

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  . Sometimes the kids who are taking the class on P/D/F are kind of lazy and don't ... me, it's that you can often hide from people when you don't have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ? I don't think anything could ever possibly compete with season 1, and ... admissions officers can get to know about this so that they don't think I am an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  singular noun that ends in s AND the next word begins in s, you don't use an ... , dispenses condoms, and ensures that we don't kill or shower each other, is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  's first piano concerto, which I also really love but don't listen to on a ... we suck at piano (paraphrased, Pulitzer Prize winners probably don't

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

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  cost you a bundle to get to or from there. So don't think "Ooh, la la la ... you don't have time to correct Wir Sind Helden's grammar. I tell you, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  's not too big of a deal if I don't take it now. I'd love to take 8 ... if I don't take it now I'll have to wait until next year. At the same

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  , and I don't know how much longer father can hold out. The enemy has ... !" or "'I don't like sand' is just too great of a piece of dialogue to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  top of the world but you don't really know why, or how. Before you know ... for the SAT.) Shock! Your first five exams don't go so well. They must

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  sense of freedom that prevails. Don't like something? Then change it ... activities. I don't know of any other school that does that... and IAP is cold

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  rejections don't seem to fit a pattern -- one person was accepted at School A ... UROP. Don't be afraid to sell yourself, although you should be sure to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of ... . =) Since I don't have any design experience, it's not like I'm responsible

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  intents and purposes. They're just not NCAA-recognized, and they don't have ... mediocre, basketball player. I don't really like having possession of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  weird stuff lol, Op.133 Grosse Fugue? I don't know ... at least I don't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  probably don't have it. I would recommend sending in an additional copy of ... suplemental material?" You don't have to rush to send us anything now; you can ... intended to apply don't manage to get their SAT, TOEFL and school reports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  out what, and how much, to buy. I don't know about you, but I never did ... ...I don't have vegetable oil." There are a lot of stupid little things you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  . You might think this is a bad thing because if you get an "A", you don't ... policy. The upperclassmen try to tell you that you don't have to do any

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  , please don't read any further. Just enjoy my witty repartee in the ... into about 20 concerts every year totally free. Unfortunately, they don't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assignment and don't plan to switch dorms, at least find out what you ... least consider doing so. Realize that you don't have to settle for "okay

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  I mention I'm anosmic?). But other jobs, like the MATCH school, don't ... engineering a person can take, but I have a high tolerance for music. I don't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005