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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  to blog about them all at once RIGHT NOW instead of putting them off ... going to MIT that I just looked at the envelope and went, "Oh, that was ... 's actually a Laura Nicholson who is my year at Harvard. I was not blessed with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end ... Detroit Lions. This didn't work out. 10. I want to be fluent in at least 3 ... like I am not necessarily good at, and things that I am really good at I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  become terrible at completing this paragraph and start to wax poetic ... towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... or she forever becomes The Grand Integrator, at least until next year

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  necessary. Upon arrival at the snowman we deemed the head not fixable. We ... snowmen, we build EPIC snowmen! Well, at least that's what the Facebook ... is, really big snowballs are REALLY heavy, and at the end of it we were

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  humanities at MIT is non-trivial. In fact, I have just proved this fact in such ... student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the ... at least one humanities/communication class per semester. As you may be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  Course 2 or 6 major for the rest of eternity, or at least until someone ... vaccillatory life thus far at MIT, I leave you with a list of tasks I must ... , and at some point hallowing out the flesh of dead turkeys before I can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  know what's going on and throws a more difficult curriculum at you ... failing miserably. Parents just sat there, looking at the board, pretending to know exactly what was going on and looking really interested. At

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  be held on campus at the Multipurpose Room of Sidney-Pacific graduate ... completing a doctoral program at Yale University, I was sold on the event and I ... four years at MIT. I had a chance to meet Iman and talk with her for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  flying east as I stared north at the city I now call home, and the Charles ... me to meet at least five new people each day of Orientation. But he ... nudged his wife and said, "He must go to Notre Dame." At the time, I had

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• 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 / 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

  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