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• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  at MIT. I did not, shall we say, come from the most stringent of high ... /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 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.

  

  drink at California Pizza Kitchen) for guessing "leprosy." I don't know, I ... caption. We tried this one at 77 Mass Ave, but were unsucessful and ... , looking up at the skylight with the bright March sky shining through it, we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  at MIT. So much so that I am proud to say that many are more like friends than colleagues. We spent many, many nights and weekends looking at ... /Universities, but that is not the case at MIT. Everyone had to withstand close

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  admissions decisions via the web. We will release decisions at decisions.mit.edu on Saturday, March 18 at 12 noon, Eastern Standard Time. There's not ... strongly encourage you to use the verification functionality at decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  come see it! Come join us at the 2006 production of The Vagina Monologues ... online at http://vagina.mit.edu ...and to help you get in the V-Day spirit, also available at the booth ------ Both my dorm and the Class of 2007

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  memories from the sophomore class' first two years at the 'Tute. This has ... Ring Committee works in secrecy and shares their design at the Ring ... would never promote drinking.) At 7:00 PM, we were finally allowed inside

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  cleaning, but at least the laundry's done. I had a good experience with ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  but two of them) and then look at the answers down below. Really, with ... different event, but no--look at their cheeks. Only at MIT.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  fit various classes and how best to shape my time at MIT to fulfill ... engineering and applied international studies. You'll know at the end of the ... "spill" -- if you've had a tough time at home, family problems, extenuating

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  ...the number of semesters completed at MIT. So today, I waved farewell to my fifth semester at MIT. It's kinda creepy how time seems to be ... at least trying to. Also the first semester I've been able to wake up

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  at the Davidson Institute (check them out). The Academy itself is not ... National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, at the University of ... International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up ... down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer ... hacker types. Don't look at me, I live on West Campus. Oh, but my life has

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  slept for 30.5 hours (and will probably sleep at least 10 tonight), cheered at a (VERY RAINY) football game, watched a (VERY ROWDY!) game of Beirut, worked on graduate school applications, gone out to dinner at CPK

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  -dollar fall retreat at a cabin in New Hampshire with the dorm, both of which ... pretty well. In general, I've done fairly well at humanities classes at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  hard math is sometimes. So Thursday night, at the house, a lot of the ... on their math homework. (8 pm) I went to sleep at 4 am, and I still ... -nighter. Instead, I just woke up at 7 am to finish the problem. Here's the problem

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  as MIT Student Juggling Origamit, "Paperfolding at MIT" LBGT ... depressing. DormCon sponsored an area at which you threw something into ... Unfortunately, at 12:40 PM we noticed that Ian Brelinsky was no longer alive

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Line, which hits the Red Line at South Station. These pictures ... '07 (note the blue shirt) insisted on stopping at Dunkin Donuts and ... UROPed at MIT this summer, so he can afford the price. Our location

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  [I'm at MIT now, but wrote this entry earlier today while still ... to the post office, driving past my old school, seeing my dad at work ... packing. I also IMed some people I'll be seeing tonight at East Campus. So

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  ?) Speaking of Andy Roddick, at the beginning of August, my roommate, Anna, came ... at the end of the game as the players were exiting the courts ... tennis at MIT, you have plenty of opportunities. There's a tennis gym class

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... Fondazione Giuseppe Verdi, was established at the turn of the century to ... well as a long-time architecture professor at Milan's Brera Fine Arts

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005