Search

Search Results

• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At ... quite a few years ago. Seeing the MITLeaks announcement on Monday reminded ... had five on my list, he nearly fainted...that meant he would need to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  -1 only has two days left on Hulu!", or d) all of the above). However ... drop more blocks on your opponent's screen. It looks something like this ... . For an hour, I battled any challengers who wanted to take me on for a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  on the student's performance as a leader. The assessed students then fill out a "yellow card" on their own time. Yes! The blue and yellow ... the cheerers last year, and I ran around with a red "M" painted on my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  complaint like, “I was five standard deviations below the mean on the last ... 's not a riddle.” On the other hand, General Relativity has been an eye-opening experience on the days when I've drank enough coffee that it hasn't been an eye

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  .” “IAP? I’ll take a design class and a PE class and work on my UROP. And I ... Southeast Asia. nbd. So she and I were planning on taking the aforementioned ... because it's a group based project class and we all could have worked on the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money? Mmm, $40 sashimi dinners.) As this whole ... and then you have to dump ice cold water on yourself." Needless to say

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how ... in orgo. Argh! < begins long rant on organic chemistry > (I ... " about chemistry and no longer depend on the memorization or the erroneous

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  decoding of the serial numbers on the packaging produced a phone number with ... Californians call it, Apocalypse Now. At 11:00 PM on Tuesday, I closed my ... pajama-clad limb on the roofdeck, where we duked out our grievances in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  gladly consume the entire holiday bestsellers list on Amazon, or, even ... 't an expression that can be safely applied when you sleep on the top bunk ... Conscientious College Student: Stick your name tag somewhere on a conspicuous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... classes come psets so...that's a wash. On other hand, I am trading Spanish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing ... weeks in Beijing, starting on the 29th of May, as an intern for the ... 'm planning on playing frisbee every night)." Ekaterina Kuznetsova '09 (Course

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  's giving was even featured on the MIT homepage for today, which is how you ... goes. Originally, I just planned on showing up to the lecture and maybe ... League, and the profound impact Schwartz had on the comic industry (and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... vector, time is a scalar, so I caught the shuttle and arrived on campus ... ’t play Underground CTF, I did play BC’s CTF on Thursday night

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  'm just rambling on aimlessly! No one at my school blogs, and it would have ... thought I'd try it since I've enjoyed reading the blogs on MyMIT. I can ... , I went out on campus alone. After attending both 3.042 (a materials

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  (think of how many things are on the nanoscale) and its interdisciplinary ... of the best nanotech research around! On the bio-nanotech side ... ’t know what will. My senior thesis project is on nanoparticles and I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  posted. Please review your statement on MITPAY by following one of the ... was snark on "omg this sucks" or "it's 2 am and this problem set is ... wasn't just about what I could regurgitate on a test or what I could

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  also on the class list.... awk) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 From: Mitra ... about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six ... pages), out on Sept. 6, the saga of an immigrant family, but that wouldn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  got into an early habit of ignoring it. After I turned 7 on 07/07, it ... was about 11:59 PM on 07/06/07, because I am a baaad baad procrastinator ... number two-ish was garlic fries. Did you know there are no garlic fries on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  things than simply stalking other prefrosh on facebook or refreshing the ... . So I arrived on campus on Thursday, and I was actually delayed about 6 ... , whom I thought were pretty funny. One was leaving on Friday to go to prom

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007