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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sacrifice, right? I'm working on designing something that makes

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  . This is a weekly nighttime graduate seminar on 'Responsive Cities' which ... , and of course I have APO meetings on Wednesday nights... but that's just

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  day on which I will again not tell you about FASAP. Except, that is, to ... magnificently staged. A giant blue trash can was brought on stage and filled with ... time, I was under the impression that my roommate had just moved out on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  , began exercising on a daily basis, and even quit pulling the pigtails of ... having to park it on a dirty latrine). Maybe we took the whole maturing ... harvesting my friends' brains for testing failed, I settled instead on working

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  about the time commitment. My on-campus job is 6-10 hours per week, and I plan on continuing studio art, photo, and dance. I got into F/ASIP and ... semester at MIT, on the academic side of things, I took four science classes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  , Scotland, authors an article commenting on alcohol culture in the US and her homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... than my friends back home, even though we were on the same tight budget

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  tape roped off entire buildings. Something was obviously going on ... revealed, where I tell you exactly what my team and I have been working on ... ran to a cluster and surfed around on the internet before finding a very

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the ... asked him to film a 14-part television series this summer on global

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  UROP! Run back to lab to check on that experiment from earlier. Grab some ... . 6pm - about 10pm Finish up things for the day at lab. On good days: get out by 8pm, on bad days: stay past midnight. Whenever lab ends

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  Beginning this weekend, MIT will be going on the road with Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Northern California/Nevada and the ... philosophies on admissions, financial aid, and more. Each session, including Q

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang ... Boston to New York, which means we had to get on the earliest possible bus - 8 AM. Getting on the earlierst possible bus meant getting on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... student sees on a daily basis. The tour has stopped in the student center ... !? Anyway, the tour moved on, and eventually we were in Killian Court looking

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  on that list must be completed within 1 week. Starred items must be ... another one. But I've run out of actual lines on the sheet, and had to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  over the course of CPW. 1 hour on purpose, 4 hours on accident (which is ... been a group of people on the MIT '11 Facebook group that have always ... 't know who she is. So what adventures did we go on? Allow me to steal the

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  schools. It's not an easy task either. Waiting on pins and needles to hear ... based off of the numbers you listed on your application because that

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Okay guys, you did get me on the whole immaculate conception ... mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  , on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack ... final. And that's all from me. Sleep! Finally! Well, two hours on the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  on different gear settings Basically, I used my old roomate as a test anti-dummy and had him pedal his heart out on different gear

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  . :) He made an appearance on the side of the Green Building during Hall ... everywhere. Kathleen '10 ended up living on 5th East! I can tell that she

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  set off on a commuter boat (really!) from Boston Harbor to Hull. Here you see our merry band heading out on the commuter boat. Honestly, I ... students walk around unwashed and are driven to vomit on the terrible

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006