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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -quality produce. I left early and arrived at the grocery store just as an employee was stocking the shelves with grapes ludicrously priced at 88 cents a pound. I'm sure CMS.100 is a worthwhile class, but grapes at 88 cents

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  manatees. (You have to kind of tilt your head at something like a 270 degree ... featured side-by-side in Japanese culture. The shrine at Heian jingu was ... yell this while banging on the table at Japanese restaurants.) We ended

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  can also check out the Lingt website at http://lingtlanguage.com. I ... piece for y'all about his journey here at MIT. Enjoy! When I applied to ... years at MIT, I was sure of it. I just needed to learn Linux first

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... all make hand turkeys, draw turkeys, or photoshop turkeys to shoot at ... the action down at the duck-shooting area. You see, we have this little

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  learn a little bit more about life at MIT. MIT's blogs have started to ... useful, but every entry has a flavor of MIT to it and, when looked at as a ... comments will be published. Here's what's important. Not everybody at MIT is

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  are very real. Truth is, we're at MIT, and we'd all do better if we ... the "college experience". In order to be fun at parties. I always hated ... , and you'll have wasted a rare opportunity in life at a trial run. Put

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  even dining options at MIT. Some students prefer to cook their own meals ... accordingly at this time. So, up I walked the stairs like Alice into a greasy ... rock on the outside of a meteor entering at 70 km/s. Conventionally

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  , taking my last possible final at the very last possible time for Harvard ... to take a step back and look at my choices and think, "well planned ... succeed at the coherent part before the bottom half of my body gives way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  , like the first one, everybody else at my table did fine. I didn't. 20 ... had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the semester I had been assigned a seat at a table in the very back of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  -floor rooms of Building 4 here at MIT. Although the movie producers got the ... at MIT). But see for yourself. Below is the movie 4-145, then the real ... ? Well, as others have already noted, there is no class called 2.09 at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  IAP makes everything at MIT more enjoyable. The past week has pretty ... .k.a. Piper). Gave myself my first zsig. Ate out at Uburger for a fun ... , no matter how good you are at any given game, at MIT, you will almost

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  weekend in the White Mountains. The PE course offering at MIT is incredibly ... operate a Tech Dinghy, which is the most basic type of sailboats at MIT. In ... up and down in the water!). When I first arrived at MIT, I must admit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  (bad bad bad - don't do this at home, kids). Then my friend Ashley ... decided that I would eat seven different meals at seven new and different ... pajamas to a tiny diner, at which Ash and I both ordered mouse pancakes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  engineer of cognitive systems at Charles River Analytics, an applied ... , publishing research papers, attending and presenting at conferences, and ... to try for grad school again at some point in the future it'll be good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  space (an online "locker") and a website at http ... you are at MIT. This will be the name you give to faculty, future ... to reemphasize the no numbers or underscores thing. People (at least if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  up- so the ice cream we bought at the supermarket, which was only ... dorm will pay for it (or at least subsidize the cost.) My GRT (grad ... picture, because I told everyone to gather in and then held my camera out at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... something you know and learning everything you never knew all at the very same ... time in hospitals, labs, or perhaps as an intern at a nearby firm?) No

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  perfectly edible cheese) roared ferociously at me. "WHY DID YOU DO THAT!" "It ... that he would have drank the entire carton, or at least a significant ... milk spoiling in my refrigerator at Next House as we speak. And that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  information that she found in a women's fitness magazine at the Z-Center while ... twice during your last two years at MIT. I also have a 6.003 p-set due ... questions and he's been glad to oblige. He's not at all stuffy, though. One

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

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  it out in five previous matches, and at the kickoff they were shoved ... Orientation hits. Also, I learned how to work a lathe, use a bandsaw at an angle ... next reason - I really, genuinely don't know what I'm going to study at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006