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• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on ... lounge at MIT where a group of people are clustered watching a movie on TV ... throughout campus (we call them "Athena clusters" - based on the name of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to ... ! This is on our way to the Valley of Fire, named as such because of rocks ... ... A petrified log! Because I'm too lazy to explain what it is. On

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  penthouse. The tower on the left (called the East Tower) is filled with several singles, whereas the tower the on the right (logically called the West Tower) consists of a mixture of singles, doubles, and triples. On

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  breaking the big toe on my right foot - eleven days before I was to leave ... practice on unsuspecting passersby, effectively mummifying them. I'm not sure ... chapters to read each night, and each day we're quizzed on information

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  TWO YEARS. I should get a raise for that), it's Cam's thoughts on the ... the previous run-on aside cause you to forget what I was talking about ... hated writing about themselves." Kevin and I, walking somewhere on campus

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  . One of my suitemates is on the Varsity Field Hockey team and attends to ... (like crew or sport taekwondo) are completely open to walk-ons and ... that passionate New Zealand Rugby team, and well, we live on Burton 1

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... lived on has its own wiki. And an IRC channel. "MIT is the closest you can ... least on 2E in East Campus but probably most other places too, IT IS SO

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired This has been going on for ... .10 might have been a C, but I'll never know - I took it on Junior-Senior P/D/F, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can take up to two classes on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving ... Asgard Pub on Mass Ave. I had delicious salmon which I then heated up and ... from being relieved of having to work on a 10+ year old sun machine

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery ... with the humanities, working on problem sets about the humanities, going ... that the humanities don't unfriend me on Facebook. In my endeavors, I am

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  a JPG image with my picture, stuck it on my blog page while it was ... years to (1) decide on a major and (2) wait for avocados to go on sale. I ... complete before hopping on a plane, exiting in the dead-middle of America

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  Advising, Seminar Advising brings a focus on a particular subject and ... are genuinely. Some of the FASAP shows are on the obscure side—for example, last week a group of FASAPers embarked on a trip to the American

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  -nighter on the last day, finishing just in time to glue the bellows, roll it up ... bellows together before falling asleep, leaving the bellows half done on the ... from the car. With a little help, I mounted the (roughly 20 lb) camera on

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  'll have to take my word on being there; I had no camera. Since I didn't see ... company again the summer and fall after their senior year, on a project that they plan to write a thesis on. They spend the spring semester after

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  and Bring It On. Most of the dorms have free movies you can rent from ... bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... veins with IV fluids most of them had better things to do - like go on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  'd just met seventeen or so of them, and she regretted she was on her way ... -winning writers on the faculty. I was surprised to learn that, apparently, MIT has ... 's a terrific event coming up on campus. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  about last year’s production based on Alan Lightman’s Einstein ... a public talk outlined on a blackboard, and an exchange with a female ... -winning physicist (for his work on quantum electrodynamics, i.e., QED), a subject that

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz ... : specifically, the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble, which was putting on its summer ... friends be absolutely ridiculous on stage. (And the play was free! Can

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  this will go on for. The construction has begun at 8am for several consecutive days now and the noise is making it impossible to sleep as I live on ... to lifting up large boulders and dropping them on the ground. So I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  Media Studies] On Friday, June 20th, Media Lab alumni and colleagues ... machine. Davenport went on to found the Interactive Cinema Group at the ... Fabrics group succeeded Interactive Cinema, it focused more and more on how

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008