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• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... for our feedback on the ride (with the promise of free candy!) and I ... summer internship working on this game. Based on the thirty minutes I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  've been working on some projects on the side... Ultimately, though, what I ... communication course. In the next couple of weeks, I'll write a five-page paper on ... on. I continue to lean toward a major in management science, with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While ... comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and the Geek, one of our very own MIT alums, is on the show. After LSC

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  students) and exams officially start on Friday and continue until Thursday ... fun before the real work kicks in? Here's some stuff going on around campus on the last semi-sane weekend of the semester!: Friday: 2

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication ... CI classes in your major: CI-Ms. I invite you to join me on this ... analysis of natural disasters on natural resource firms) and a 10 page

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  on the chalkboard: Now, I wasn't really paying that close attention ... again. He demonstrated this. Then he turned on his trusty MP3 player and ... up at 4 AM after I-forget-how-many hours' sleep and start on a thermo

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... MIT arise from accidentally hitting on your TA or forgetting the name of someone you see everyday and have been introduced to on numerous occasions

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  little AppleBake logo on the back, which Adelaide '09 graciously modeled ... Bake results, the Conner 2 freshmen rushed back up to our floor to work on the ... roll of aluminum foil and covered the first pan as Rick stared on in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  't matter that it was ridiculously cold each night and raining on Sunday ... pictures of the games as well as my dad's scorecards (he keeps score on his ... White Sox! [] A.J. at the plate [] Bobby Jenks on the mound

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  throughout New England. Hop on board and see how to take some time off ... for you, a la sub sandwich shop) on my way to the T. Descending the ... outsources their food service on the Downeaster to a company called Epicurean

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  -mail--who knows, I might pull a Mitra and end up using it. Classes started on ... week, where you can go an get one-on-one instruction with either your TAs ... going to be on Sunday nights, and one of the TAs wrote this apologetic e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I ... question above, I joked that "he wrote the book" on the subject, since we had ... said, 'hey, that's a good term for what's going on in this country.'" I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... thing I suggest is getting a T-Pass. During the semester, I don't plan on ... was able to get on the T, miss a stop, get off at the wrong stop as much

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  Killian Court. (For more on graduation, check out Matt's entry as well the ... summer. Just a little plain-looking. I've been working on my UROP since November 2004, so I've got a handle on what I'm supposed to be doing in lab

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  Cambridge. On campus, there's the Valentine's skate (ice skating is an ... -male a capella group, on their way from one serenade to another. But some ... you know that those little candy hearts with sayings on them (e.g. "Be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  . On Saturday, we started at China Pearl, then walked through Downtown ... other foods in the tandoor. On Sunday, we started at our favorite brunch ... , check out former Admissions Officer Amrys' blog entry on MIT course number

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen ... on the road again for my Admissions World Tour 2004. Well, maybe not ... stories to tell on the road. Perhaps the best stories were provided by Prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  ’re looking for that, we have plenty of great essay advice on our site already ... we all evolve based on social context and age. I reread this book every ... —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  through an announcement on the LCD screens, and sometimes it's actually ... even stayed up to watch it on television last night! (his speech was ... fathers are seen clutching copies of Obama's speeches on the densyas and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  since then I have spun countless props on fire, danced and performed with it, gotten accidental fire haircuts, and lit myself on fire (on accident and on purpose). Besides committing to MIT, joining Spinning Arts

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025