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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  actually try to recover from bad test scores and working at it all semester ... out of the summer all happy from working at Hasbro and building toys all ... walked out of the final at 4:30 PM on Wednesday and went straight back to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  of what that says about our coolness it definitely implies that at ... ever. Living in Boston. I lived at Phi Delta Theta this summer for a ... living in Boston. Dressing up and eating dessert at Finale, having a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  . . . Wait . . . what? Students at play? Oh right! Tuesday was the 4th Annual ... arrived at the PlaySentations 2 hours early so that I could practice with my ... component, down the leads of the plushy, and are soldered to magnetic snaps at

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Darth Vaders up on the stage at 26-100, so there was a pretty sizable ... , I give you HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AT MIT IN 15 MINUTES! (and pictures ... one at point A and point B, and put the electron you want to teleport at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  random fire alarm at Burton-Conner. (I WAS SO EXCITED) Long long ago, I ... or whatever at a particular fire alarm, and how cold it was. I know 3 ... up with when someone wakes you up at 3 AM. Oh no! A fire! You better

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your ... typical date between students at my high school or middle school was like, I ... such people in my social group at MIT. So my first reaction, when I read

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  is artificially cheaper there than at any area supermarket (not that I ... in the morning for job #1, due technically at the end of the workday ... makes sense now, because to succeed at MIT, you have got to self

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  Pass/No Record. And then I went to a party at my frat. Hey, want to come ... . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your ... -by-term breakdown of my lowest test scores at MIT. Fall 2003 -- I was inconsolable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  trouble thinking of anything. We were at a Conclave (sectional meeting) at ... forget what) that got us both called to the front for "punishment" at the ... upperclassmen at MIT were as helpful as I was. *grin* It was nice to finally meet

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  everything when I leave my nice dark cozy apartment at 6:45 AM. At least I did ... neuron. Different neurotransmitters bind to different receptors, so at ... "mushroom" heads. If you look back at my neuron pictures from last week, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... friends with a Swedish transvestite in aviator glasses? We ate lunch at ... picture on it. In the men's bathroom at my job, there are two separate areas

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  destiny forward one step at a time. But in a way, the past eight months have ... friends at the ARC lend you a helping hand. They insist that you'll do fine ... the morning and put you to bed at night, you might be singing a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." 3. Daniel, a kindred spirit admissions officer/blogger at the Johns Hopkins ... focus on just statistics and rankings - they are superficial at best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in ... Engineering lab at Havana's Universidad de Villanueva and become the Department ... rubber-tipped at the spokes. The tilting frames are also provided with an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interviewing at MIT this weekend. They were all really concerned about the ... snowed at all. And now all these southern California kids are in Boston ... leave at all. It's snowing so hard right now that I can't see across the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  matter, I don't even think the biology department at MIT offers a masters ... if it was possible to defer enrollment at MIT. According to this site ... deferment. Deferrals are granted for any reason except full-time enrollment at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  , but in the end decided to stay at EC. Then came hall rush. We had ... anyone at first. Right before we got to where Walcott changes into Bemis ... " advice about life at MIT, only one tidbit of which I remember clearly. "If

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  ," to which I responded "SAME THING BABY!!" and laughed at her like a ... as how we look at it in reading and selection, there is absolutely no ... lot of help from the whole world. The Pakistani Students association at

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... operate, events with free Bertucci's, hallway colloquies at four in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  at MIT. The way it works is, there are a few dorms with dining halls. I ... hall", not "the dining hall", because if you have a plan at one of these ... 're tooling problem sets with your friend at Baker, you don't have to walk all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005