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• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  AM last night, and spent the extra hour catching up on some much ... downstairs with your dirty linens, or the emergency pizza button on (I believe ... artery, but the vein), Mike Short '05 mounted a laptop on his door two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  to Ruth '07's column from last week. Two people complimented me on my ... themselves on my behalf by wearing breadboard-style posters with John '06's and my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on" on a heater, and let it heat up for 20 minutes while the a computer ... down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Engineering and Computer Science, has worked on this project for two and a half ... very sensitive and must be mounted on vibration-free platforms. Vivek ... mining village working on the detector that they were using. Vivek

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . On second thought, what am I going to write about? Taking exams? Anyway ... have boundless blogging potential. On weekends like this, I have an old ... test was on Wednesday and then I had three more on Friday. So, I started

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  Farfalle Con Pollo resting on them. Two economists meet on the street. One ... Institute, UBS and Lehman Brothers. We'll give you the low-down on everything ... went very well, and I found the panelists' advice on internships very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  yet fun week, and I'll probably blog about that this weekend. But on a ... , I embarked on the adventure of producing a documentary about the ... you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You silly silly vern vern. So, read on for a well-crafted narrative and ... , and then I came home and passed out on my floor for two hours. Ah, it

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

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... some pretty nice "class 4" rapids on the upper part of the river. We had ... it tonight, so I'll leave you with this moral dilemma: On the way home

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  outside of the Gulf Coast moves on, and the Office of Admissions is still ... be. You may have seen our official office response on MyMIT: Our ... . Sometimes, good things happen. This morning I presented the on campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I ... :00 WEdnesday for Floor Rush. So basically every single freshman on campus will be logging on to the server at the same exact time so they can have enough time

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  , back to the point of this entry. Every year on 5th East, we repaint Black ... probably caused by how long the shutter was open on my camera, Diandra '06 ... on campus, you should come see in person, instead of relying on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800 ... Mefistofele, based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's version of the German Faust ... week's initial entry! :-) (As I'm leaving for MIT on Saturday the 27th, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  really expect to happen. So, I was sitting at work on Friday afternoon ... world. If you're hosting an event on campus, you can get hundreds of ... 's a definite subculture--think Bring It On, except with band. After

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

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  usually don't shower on Thursdays, but I also usually don't go to work with ... thesis research for him on my own for the next three months, so nobody ... make up organic feed and sparge 55 liters of water and turn on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  beautiful polka-dotted sundress which keeps me cool walking to work on hot ... my window is 15 stories up and falling out is not up there on my list ... would like to give me to make it much easier on me? Okay, I'm out of dorky

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... I assume to be "Be Cool" on the bus ride up and I saw a brief where

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show ... scholarship competition would put more emphasis on analytical thinking. The ... tell them apart from everyone else. (More on homeschooled students in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  person on Earth that I would have my first weblog entry up this week ... difficulty sitting down on account of a sore pelvis. Furthermore, tomorrow morning at 6 AM I'm leaving on a fast train for my beloved hometown, that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist

  

  higher than we had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2005