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• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  -standing policy of not speaking with a single institutional voice on matters of ... . “People asked me, ‘What’s going on at MIT to address this ... important upcoming events: DarfurFast on Wednesday, December 5th, and a Darfur

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a ... you should do is this: log on to MyMIT, where you'll find the name and ... applying to MIT. Do a little research on the web, and think of some questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  Hi, I'm Karen and like most other freshmen, I'm still working on my ... get started on here. Unlike almost everyone else here, I don't have an ... 're on completely different tracks (Hah! Get it? Tracks? Like trains

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  the way, let's focus on the positive and introduce our new bloggers. In ... convince you to watch Notre Dame football with him on Saturdays. Derrick ... focusing more on international work and developing countries..."). Karen

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  on the plane home, and then got home and found out Sam had written his ... , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big ... to finish that last biology problem I'd cry like Ashley Ferl on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  MIT. It was my very first time on campus, so I was struck by the sheer ... the fourth Roman Emperor to complex Fourier series. I went on tours that ... nanotechnology lab I visited on a UROP tour was also exciting, and they gave out

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  't you mention GOOGLE BOMBING on your show? The Colbert Nation would LOVE ... of me playing one note of Trogdor on Guitar Hero II. The entire song ... international panel at 4 PM. I think it's in 34-101 on Thursday and 32-141 on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  one I'd put on my "must do" list. Academics are only one part of an MIT ... :00am-11:00am Panel on Freshman/Alumni Summer Internship Program. (same as ... Cambridge! ------------------------------------- Can I fill in YES on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the ... the appropriate action. So, what is my advice on this topic? Hmm. It ... you stay on track. I'm not saying schedule every minute of every day. I

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  As I've discussed on this blog before, MIT MedLinks are awesome. Got ... ankle? Hold on, I'll wrap you up with an Ace bandage before we hop on over ... deemed it necessary. So when I woke up on Sunday morning and could barely

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  the class. On the first day of lecture, the professor called on her ... go by so quickly! Everyone who completes the class qualifies to go on ... write a paper based on the research I’ve been doing for the past year and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

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

  

  videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the ... , which led them on a goose chase through the halls of MIT and down into ... triumphed over evil. I played on team "Lego My Ego," based out of the Simmons

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

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  . After that, I was working on my 2.001 pset, which thankfully didn’t cover ... think I have a fictional character crush on Piz. I can’t help it, he ... ]hould I [s]ign the part on top where it [s]ay[s] I waive the right to review

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  " sticker on it. I continue to yank. 3. Victory! The lock comes off! 4. There's a little black plastic part on the main bar of the bike where I ... , another good ten minutes (during which I probably could have made it home on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  Fellowship -- concentrate on issues and communities that are of particular ... : science education, women working on women's issues, issues affecting ... on a team Fellowship project initiated by the PSC... You do not need to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  ; literally all of them would gather on campus and work on problem sets together ... you with the problem sets, and then you'd be screwed. Adam's take on ... cutthroat behavior. Any time I had a question or needed help on a problem set

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to the little Turkish internet cafe on the corner tomorrow. But I'm pretty ... blogging for me. Catch you on the flip side, planet Earth! -- For those of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  usually use. So don't look at the rest of the entry if you're on a dialup ... normal size on Monday night. Before we even got our baggage out of baggage ... on that. I only offer my condolences to him for paying four euros for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  for crew (I was on lightweight crew as a freshman). Not really the most ... Hunt as a member of the team Project Electric Mayhem. Worked on building ... half the freshmen on 5th East did last year, an IAP UROP or internship

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  on international admissions (I attended last year as well). The ... ; on the most recent list, we're third, supplying $8,628,074 in aid to ... schools also on the list. Many of them may well known overseas, but most of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006