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• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  IAP makes everything at MIT more enjoyable. The past week has pretty ... .k.a. Piper). Gave myself my first zsig. Ate out at Uburger for a fun ... , no matter how good you are at any given game, at MIT, you will almost

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  weekend in the White Mountains. The PE course offering at MIT is incredibly ... operate a Tech Dinghy, which is the most basic type of sailboats at MIT. In ... up and down in the water!). When I first arrived at MIT, I must admit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 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…

  

  (bad bad bad - don't do this at home, kids). Then my friend Ashley ... decided that I would eat seven different meals at seven new and different ... pajamas to a tiny diner, at which Ash and I both ordered mouse pancakes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  engineer of cognitive systems at Charles River Analytics, an applied ... , publishing research papers, attending and presenting at conferences, and ... to try for grad school again at some point in the future it'll be good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  up- so the ice cream we bought at the supermarket, which was only ... dorm will pay for it (or at least subsidize the cost.) My GRT (grad ... picture, because I told everyone to gather in and then held my camera out at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... something you know and learning everything you never knew all at the very same ... time in hospitals, labs, or perhaps as an intern at a nearby firm?) No

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  perfectly edible cheese) roared ferociously at me. "WHY DID YOU DO THAT!" "It ... that he would have drank the entire carton, or at least a significant ... milk spoiling in my refrigerator at Next House as we speak. And that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  information that she found in a women's fitness magazine at the Z-Center while ... twice during your last two years at MIT. I also have a 6.003 p-set due ... questions and he's been glad to oblige. He's not at all stuffy, though. One

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  it out in five previous matches, and at the kickoff they were shoved ... Orientation hits. Also, I learned how to work a lathe, use a bandsaw at an angle ... next reason - I really, genuinely don't know what I'm going to study at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  have spent their summer interning at big labs, writing complex programs ... sprinkles..) Yesterday was my last day of work at Schubert's Bakery in San ... to work at the bakery over break (which I probably will, because it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I know some people who haven't seen any of the films at all. According to ... start to look at George Lucas's original scripts, you start to understand

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... situation or is able to offer relevant advice or at the very least just guide ... learned physics since it pretty much sucks at my high school. So what's your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  talking at the debate, watched by opponents Dwight Chambers '07 and Chris ... well, do I? All of us at the debate. From left to right: Dwight, Chris ... column is about reflecting on the past and present and looking at the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  's all year and still happily gone off to graduate school in the fall. At ... Court. Especially on sunny days, you can sit and look at the elegant ... helicopter I picked up at the Discovery Channel store, then modified it (alot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  groups, and I picked up information about several theatre groups at the ... cheerleader, was pulling some of her belongings out of the closet at the time ... sort of insufferable if I had continued the same activities at which I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  at MIT. I mean, come on--he grows ears out of the backs of lab mice ... totally incompetent at chemistry, the graduate students were seemingly always busy, the professor spent 15 minutes at a group meeting lecturing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  additional essay on my experiences at a local research lab would be useful for ... project there, is that too trivial to be even considered at MIT? Would it ... general rule, you may submit extra materials at any time, and we will make

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... also in a mixture of East and West Campus geography - at the beginning of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  we're getting a spiffy new one at the new building. Whatever.) So I ... journal: Today at the Plastic Lunch, the periodic get-together of the ... about my project. And to get mentioned at the end. But what was even

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large ... to have Verizon at MIT). Cingular does seem to offer better rates on ... at MIT, which I figure to be pretty representative since I really don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005