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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  , until one of the people started waving at me - it was Cody! I hustled over ... , accompanied by Liz '11 (at MIT, we always put our class year by our name, even ... Building (as with most buildings at MIT) is prohibited. But the Green

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  ate 13 pancakes at all-you-can-eat IHOP. (I had four.) The girls ... . The trick is to keep eating at all times, so you don't recognize you ... winners ice cream at J.P. Licks, which has some of the best ice cream in

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

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  computers for a while (and listening to Blast! at a volume that probably have ... , I got a text from Jordan inviting me to an EMT barbecue over at East ... wear in public, right? After staring directly at her for a good five

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  hosted at mitblogs.com. So my blog was at laura.mitblogs.com, and Ben was at ben.mitblogs.com, etc. Then, at the beginning of the 06-07 school ... replaced, he was actually giving me a collector's item. I stared at him

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  [edited 05/14 after first posted at 2 AM; corrected by Clara '10 ... while, and I would look down at their page over my absurdly high nose and ... service, and so on April 21st I got up at a ridiculous hour to watch people

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  15-paged chem pset and turned it in at noon. That said, and I did ... but it still puts me at 60 credits, breaking the 57 freshmen credit cap ... feel like taking the Physics GIR is like being at a buffet with all

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  . Anyway. Life at MIT is moving right along at its usual breakneck pace, but ... nostalgic and philosophical at the same time, and you're the lucky ones who ... because professors and advisors here aren't supportive - they are. But at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  many that at one point I had to transfer all of the pictures I had taken ... interested in then e-mail ALL THREE OF US at snively [at] mit [dot] edu -- ask-paul [at] mit [dot] edu -- bryanblogs [at] mit [dot] edu and we can work out

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  call. So the emo-high school senior Bryan was at home when the phone rang. My mom looked at the caller ID and said, "Oh look it's an out of state ... at all, and somehow the admissions gods allowed it to happen. Weeeeee

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  system at MyMIT may be wondering, where's my recommendation from Mr. Brown ... : The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15 -- Way West ... system, one at a time, by the great records office team. Thanks Diane, Noah

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  , homework can now be due late at night, or on weekends. For 8.01, there are 2 ... Mastering Physics assignment due last night at 8:10, and this was basically ... ...assume gravitational potential energy is zero at large distances. I don't know what this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International ... Visiting Research Fellow at the time), a group bombed the CIS. Since that ... February 2003 passed without much discussion at MIT. After the attacks were

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... untraditional coursework at MIT - "Interactive Narrative" class, anthropology, Literature of Melville and Toni Morrison, Interactive Museum design at Harvard

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... would ever want me at their school? A year later, I still don't really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  all of the dorms at MIT remain open for summer residents, my floor was closed down, so I decided that I wanted to experience living at East Campus ... , but at Burton-Conner it's pretty easy: you tell the Housemanager that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  a beauty or fashion magazine. If you take a look at any issue (whether ... application at: http://www.glamour.com/images/news/2007/05/ttcw_app2008.pdf . If ... departments hard at work and really got a feel for how much effort goes into

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 ... later taught LEGO robotics to middle schoolers at RoboCamp. After ... designing satellite antennas and communication systems at Orbital Science

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the ... talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... my hands.) At this moment I'm sitting at my kitchen table feeling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  spending hours at a time talking animatedly to myself.) We created an online ... recitation instructors know how many students had listened to (or at least ... there was at least one person listening to my recorded voice. More amazing

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  "Adventures in Logan Airport." First of all, my first name is Keri-Lee. At ... ’s all fine and good, Keri, but what does this have to do with anything at ... boarding pass yesterday. Seat 5D. A window. Nice. At least I’ll have a lovely

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006