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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  , and a nice walk back from dinner, we ended up back at the dorm and I checked my mail. A postcard! We read it, I showed it to Laura, and then ... I, had gotten a postcard while nobody else had. There's not much else

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a ... enroll elsewhere. For Ben, this was truly more than a job. So please use ... embarks on a new journey. We'll miss you, Ben.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  's campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won't be a ... a well-organized system where we reported to a station in order to be ... overwhelming... I felt like a gladiator entering an arena. Luckily, I was not

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.

  

  apartment. So I'm still hosed, and only taking a small break to remind you ... 're up to over ten bucks! How crazy is that?! Ben, I think you really are a rock star. Remember, proceeds go to a good cause that I haven't picked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  time, and I can't wait to see the issue come out in just a few weeks ... refers to the final day that MIT students can "drop" a class (remove it ... . Kind of cool. And with Drop Date, comes Piano Drop! Piano Drop is a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  because I don't really count the liveblog yesterday as an entry so much as a ... news and puts me in a good mood, even though I'm studying physics right ... . Then I checked my 2.001 schedule and almost cried like a baby. My last 2

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  tower. Nothing made that more apparent than standing in front of a ... explain the intricacies of quantum scattering from a one-dimensional coulomb ... change the world. Let's not forget that there actually is a world out there

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a ... . There are a few things I like about this schedule, and a few things I don ... for getting lunch, catching up on email, or working on a p-set. I mostly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  skates, and a team of friendly tourists. My friend Julia '08 shares her IAP snowman experience below: (Note: I promise that I have a non-snow related ... the midst of a multi-part snow battle. The first two battles involved

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a ... building a robot for a robot-wars type of competition, and have been having

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  interviews has changed (though Chris' other observations remain accurate). A ... are telltale signs - a hint of gold above the treetops, an orange leaf carelessly strewn along a sidewalk, the squirrels anxiously scuttering about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  tell you a bit about me... I'm a senior in Management and Political ... decided to take a year off to learn more about myself and figure out what my interests were. I deliberately decided not to come up with a plan for that

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... nationwide (10pm et/pt on CBS). The concert occurs at Boston's Hatch Shell, a concert venue on the Esplanade, a nice park along the Charles River, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... control. A small group of MIT undergraduates forming the group Biodiesel ... .ecocollegechallenge.com). The prize also includes an Earth Day celebration, featuring a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I ... 's, well, a statistics class, with a focus on neuroscience

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... the day. Subway or Taxi? Realizing I'd filled out a survey online that had a $30 payout, I decided to be a high-roller and take a cab to the

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  Every June 21st, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge to watch a very special sunrise. On this day, the summer solstice, the sun is ... religious or scientific purposes. Image from the BBC. A similar phenomenon

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I ... .001 lecture was one and a half straight hours of that basic concept. Only it related to normal and shear stresses, a diagram of a rotated block with no

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  and other interested parties for a long time now; this is an early ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting ... our community. Over the past 5-10 years, we have seen a surge in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  around the corner. (Funny I say that even though Boston had a heat index of ... . This is, after all, a community designed for and about you. When I began to blog a little more than a year ago I wrote the following: My blog

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006