Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  decoding of the serial numbers on the packaging produced a phone number with ... Californians call it, Apocalypse Now. At 11:00 PM on Tuesday, I closed my ... pajama-clad limb on the roofdeck, where we duked out our grievances in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  gladly consume the entire holiday bestsellers list on Amazon, or, even ... 't an expression that can be safely applied when you sleep on the top bunk ... Conscientious College Student: Stick your name tag somewhere on a conspicuous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... classes come psets so...that's a wash. On other hand, I am trading Spanish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing ... weeks in Beijing, starting on the 29th of May, as an intern for the ... 'm planning on playing frisbee every night)." Ekaterina Kuznetsova '09 (Course

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  's giving was even featured on the MIT homepage for today, which is how you ... goes. Originally, I just planned on showing up to the lecture and maybe ... League, and the profound impact Schwartz had on the comic industry (and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... vector, time is a scalar, so I caught the shuttle and arrived on campus ... ’t play Underground CTF, I did play BC’s CTF on Thursday night

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  'm just rambling on aimlessly! No one at my school blogs, and it would have ... thought I'd try it since I've enjoyed reading the blogs on MyMIT. I can ... , I went out on campus alone. After attending both 3.042 (a materials

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  (think of how many things are on the nanoscale) and its interdisciplinary ... of the best nanotech research around! On the bio-nanotech side ... ’t know what will. My senior thesis project is on nanoparticles and I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  posted. Please review your statement on MITPAY by following one of the ... was snark on "omg this sucks" or "it's 2 am and this problem set is ... wasn't just about what I could regurgitate on a test or what I could

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  also on the class list.... awk) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 From: Mitra ... about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six ... pages), out on Sept. 6, the saga of an immigrant family, but that wouldn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 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…

  

  got into an early habit of ignoring it. After I turned 7 on 07/07, it ... was about 11:59 PM on 07/06/07, because I am a baaad baad procrastinator ... number two-ish was garlic fries. Did you know there are no garlic fries on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  things than simply stalking other prefrosh on facebook or refreshing the ... . So I arrived on campus on Thursday, and I was actually delayed about 6 ... , whom I thought were pretty funny. One was leaving on Friday to go to prom

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  ? Make sure to show up to our annual party at CPW on Friday The 13th ... Marilee perform with my band at ZBT's fifth annual Battle Of The Bands on ... thought I'd share it here: I'm so sorry that some of you have been on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... to have gotten into Yale law school solely based on his own efforts ... undervalue himself based on the value system of those around him. A good

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... Francisco, which was sad because I loved my job. Unfortunately it dawned on me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... project that he'd really like Adam to take on for his master's degree. So ... stranded me on a desert island and forced me to pick two bands to listen to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  handle the foundation before you move on to what you really care about. As ... , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... be, hanging on to memories of your senior prom and of the countless

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Stipe played an ice cream man on one episode of ... frightening nightmare last night. Read on if you dare. So as Melis and Bryan ... at MIT. I mean, come on--he grows ears out of the backs of lab mice

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  perspective on things. A horrible situation is what happened in New Orleans. How ... of crowding in campus housing, since freshmen are required to live on ... ,000 has a very great effect on our student culture -- it's really possible

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  , which, believe me, has a long-term impact on your life. It is much more hands-on than most other universities - you work in labs, build roller ... moving to another room on your hall/entry or within your building... or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005