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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of ... cow I like this Red Sox cow because of the World Series ring on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  horrified look on my face in 2004 when I realized that there were no hot dogs on the 4th of July. The look of horror prompted Adam's mom to ask me ... fireworks. Usually we sit up on a hill in the middle of an 18th

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  , and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the ... entering my junior year at M.I.T., I saw a notice on the student bulletin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  to put bikes in it," Cote recalled. Two weeks after arriving on campus ... sports -- particularly the sport they are working on -- tend to be far more ... ," he said. The company has since signed him on for an ongoing internship

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on ... , with MIT and the class year each appearing on a separate shank. Thus the ... -piece design, with the MIT seal and the class year each appearing on a separate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  ! Based on a comment I got yesterday, there are still people working... and I don't want to spoil the fun. By the by, I found out the average on ... . On thing that's strange about taking this class is being in a class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which ... when people are trying to pick colleges, and I want to expand on that a ... certain number of terms and expected to find housing on their own? Are there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  with what's going on in the UA. And I'm in the Assassins' Guild's ten ... competition. I am on an all-5th East team, "All Circuits Groovy">. I came up with that name after Brian '08, one of my teammates, said that on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... internet wasn't my inability to write amusing new blog entries or chat on AIM

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  finishing touches on my last HASS (read: Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) paper. This 13-page masterpiece (cough) for 21A.260, on cross ... eyepieces when sitting down. Hee. So in my last entry on Friday, I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  ... Thursday 12/1: The day I'd set aside to catch up on email, blogging, work ... another year on our quest to make the world better. (Lunch: Mass Ave food ... , the folder goes back on the pile. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Playing over

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10 ... 'm going to see MTG's Star Wars: Musical Edition on Sunday, so I really have to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  -confidence as design engineers. Emphasis on the creative design process bolstered by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on ... manufacturability are emphasized. Subject relies on active learning via a major design

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  doing something similar (in the "spending a lot of time on it" sense) with ... 'm thankful that there were more TAs than students in the lab on Thursday ... . UROP -2.5 hours on Monday -2 hours on Thursday -First half of required

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been ... . And then on Wednesday night, she stayed up with the rooming committee ... readjusted properly after in-house rush. Battle on, Erica. Anyway, tonight I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  th West 2nd East 4th East And on to the point of the entry... One ... on the roofdeck. Boffing is very popular at Random - well, it's popular ... , both those on meal plans and those who go over to hang out once every few

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do ... 'm just excited to see how I did on these tests, even though I know I didn ... on some old things.... About the banner issue. MIT people are so cool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  choice. Filmed on location at the University of Southern California, The ... programming that is based on wish fulfillment, emotional journeys and ... executive on two of the entertainment industry's grandest institutions, "The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  WMBR ("Walker Memorial Basement Radio'') on May 24, 1979, Ted Turner got the WTBS calls, WMBR received $50,000 from Turner, and WMBR signed on ... Massachusetts] on November 10, 1979. You can actually listen live right now to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... community members take classes on such silly but important topics as Giving a ... mnemonic that the class taught: "b," on the left, is for bread, and "d," for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005