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  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to ... world. (I kind of do feel like this is sort of a blogging rite of passage, actually. I remember reading Melis's ring premiere entry as a prefrosh and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat until 4 pm, sometimes a college student has to take some responsibility ... meal of the day. Instead of inspiring me to eat a balanced breakfast

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely, Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen ... ://dfa.mit.edu/stream/ ************************************************************************************* DONE. Hey guys, thanks a ton for helping. It was an intense push there

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to MIT - it's been a crazy few weeks, but I'm finally settled in and ready ... 'm now a resident of Burton 1, and unfortunately for Snively will probably

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me ... this term, which is a pretty normal load. Those of you that wanted a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended ... , papers, and reading, but for most, they degenerate into a remarkably fun ... adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  Don't you hate it when your computer freezes and you lose a huge ... have fantastic-looking hair all the time? Me too. I have a real entry ... let you guys know about a program that I participated in back in high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard ... morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out, grabbed the student guide, and tossed her into the trunk. A fifth young man

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  my world record low test score with a 40% on the third 6.002 exam. Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I really didn't do too badly, and also that you could have gotten a zero and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ... laundry, change currency, buy travel books, and sleep. After a pizza lunch ... to pick up a travel book. (Yes, I waited until the last minute to

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  multipurpose 9x13 pan is a Pyrex pan which costs only $8.00? It's my last night ... photos from my phone to my computer, and I'm a college student and just can ... purcahsed a lottery ticket in my otherwise typical suburban life. So, on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  's Mom and I have baked four award-winning nut rolls, a tradition that we started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... dorm, Burton-Conner, has a full kitchen and suite lounge for every 6

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all my classes for the long haul. (Truth be told, I've never dropped a ... swimmingly; for example, we had a great discussion in 7.31 (Current Topics in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate ... efficiency. Bryan Owens (check out his blog at bryan.mitblogs.com), a junior ... currently developing a bioreactor that may potentially be used to accelerate

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... follow her around as a living fashion accessory. Her inspiration in this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  Summer Motto #456-1A: Rock the free stuff, always. So following ... England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course. Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state

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

  Come in, we’re open

  

  moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal ... in A-Entry for the summer -- actually, strictly speaking, I had been living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  populations. I've come to see the Internet (and now blogs) with a strong ... you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as ... be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this blog? Au

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  President back in the day. :) First, a trivia question: the name of this blog, A Land of Dreams and Fire, is yoinked from a quote in a fantasy novel - can anyone name the book and/or the author? A little bit about me, in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  was David Bauer from New York City, who did a project on quantum dots ... ceremony is a black tie event; I was sporting my tux. It's a pretty swank ... , in a way, I was. Science isn't celebrated enough in our society, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005