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• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on ... about Kansas, I've heard it all before. No I don't live on a farm, no I ... Living Situation: Now on to fun stuff. I currently live in East Campus

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... :23pm on Thursday, May 12, my work at MIT was done. Like many other ... vacuum, as I caught up on sleep, enjoyed an end-of-semester dinner with The

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  many visitors on campus is as if about ten Campus Preview Weekends took ... . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour ... while building a paper bridge on time, within their materials budget, and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  's working on a thesis right now, but the pre-finals frenzy (read: cramming ... make a few promises on future content. Quite a lot has been compressed ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  concert on campus. This year's Spring Concert features Jason Derulo and ... to have the best taste in music on campus, they tend to get the best ... ) and used one to play half of a song on his bass." Apparently, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  reply read, “Mmmm speghatuuuuuna :).” We don’t even agree on the spelling ... family calls them yadda-yaddees. Also, one time, while talking on live ... fridgey?!” Apparently my family relies on vague onomatopoeia and unique

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for ... on my UROP, which involves computing statistics about traffic in a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  this blog post on any given day will be floored that some MIT admissions ... on my floor opened their mouths…and proceeded to shout, really loudly ... mini-lesson on binary! We ended up finding plenty of candles, so the cake

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  party raged on. Tech-y house music thumped through the disgustingly humid ... laughed, turning and flagging down the guy perched on top of the wall, who ... tossed it down to me. Tugging it on over my top, I grinned, bounded up the

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center ... right. Eyes on the Frisbee, I began to run sideways. BAM. Crashed into a ... rolled, lost my balance, fell. Ankle in pain. Head on knees. A chorus of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  " (2010): India ink on Mylar®. I will admit upfront that I am a bit, if ... (HERE!) on the first floor and is free to everyone :) Those artists who ... attending an LVAC Gallery Talk with Tavares himself back on June 3rd with Li

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  missing out, but I'm really not interesting enough for anyone to miss out on ... catch up on my nonrequired reading. Today's read was One Day, All Children ... interview round. I find out whether or not I've been accepted on Thursday, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  profound blog post, so I’ll go ahead and zoom in on some the crazy things ... , but right there in one plate I’ve covered 3 groups on the food pyramid ... all similar to questions on quizzes and exams –because Mastering Physics

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  on my way to Hollywood, but found Christopher Columbus, who pointed me ... from my alma mater Morehouse College. FYI - That is my shoe on the ... , while I was on the road, there were a number of really interesting

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  ! One of my classes, 2.008, focuses on manufacturing and machining ... tools to cut grooves, pockets, round edges, so on and so forth. A mill is ... you can move your part around on a table (like an etch-a-sketch) and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -cooker minutes before the curtains fell on our loose-spined textbooks and leafed ... yourself a cup of coffee, and commented “FIRST!” on my blog already. Great ... Hall's lounges at 11 pm on Sunday. 1.Take 7 times 4, multiply by 10, add

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  a good head on her shoulders. She's had a picture-perfect time at UCSC so far but couldn't shake the feeling that she was missing out on ... miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share ... nights ago, I cut across Killian Court on my way home from campus. It was ... evening sky slathered on the grey-blue brink of dusk. As I traipsed through

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  on their first vacation they thought their parents were so much smarter ... been gone a long time but I was reminded of this story when I went out on ... thoughts on the subject...so these are my "two cents"... Admitted: Obviously

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  the blue paint on our walls wasn’t magic enough. And then I had to blog ... sitting on this deck in the woods, minding my own business, right, when ... party tent. But then the tree kind of fell on the house, I made a break

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009