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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... roommate picked up the following gem on sale for 50 cents at the grocery market last Thursday. It passes for a can of Crayons until you pick it up

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

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... College, for one. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Bob Jones ... month. At 5 I went to the professor's office hours for 8.09. Stayed there

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... Iman Kandil who is a senior and has been involved with the MSA for all four years at MIT. I had a chance to meet Iman and talk with her for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... for the tale of the midnight tool: Prologue: Having taken BC Calc AP in high school, (though not getting credit for it like I should've...) I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I ... they wanted to study, what they liked to do for fun. What made them tick ... first discovered my passion for biomedical research. Unsurprisingly, every

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

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  people for 7 days in the desert. The month of august has been a great busy time for all. I think the pressure of the impending summer's end is what ... home. Getting together some sort of exercise regimen. For some unknown

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  dogs, we roast over 300 pounds of meat over a giant spit for 17 hours ... courtyard, but alums - who return en masse for Roast every year - state ... the courtyard and crowded on balconies for the pit lighting: A

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  [Justin '08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I ... , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in ... continual assessment, and are given maybe a few days to prepare for tests, and

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  condense your life into 500 words for the admissions office. But I shall try ... tools and devices that were redesigned to be inexpensive enough for people to afford. A major challenge for many people is finding fuel, usually

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... was on exchange, like all of Illinois got multiple snow days! Dang. For ... 't getting my new bike for Bike and Build (which you haven't donated to yet

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  . I worked through the summer, kept my job for weekends during the ... well. They can range from $10 or $13 for a half hour session to $100 for ... serve as one of the dorm's defense systems (they can open the door for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  [The Call For Guest Entries has been updated/modified] Wow, excuse ... activate it you need to speak blender to it. I could describe it for you all ... of the criteria that I'll be looking for in the guest entries I publish

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

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  to MIT Medical, where they tested me for strep (negative. First test ... MORE sick. I went to the doctor willingly, which is a rare thing for me ... meeting my group for my **CI-H class, one girl showed up without a voice

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  around. For example. But this entry is about languages. Unfortunately, MIT ... languages. There are words which are identical except for the spelling ... Rome for 2 days this spring. Or, maybe I should say, hopefully I learned

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  'm all for taking pictures, even having taken many stupid ones myself ... books. I know I've never gone there for books. I go there because it ... -desk-things that are perfect for setting up shop and spending several hours buried in

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  but worry as I waited for the Admissions Staff to send back their reply. I thought that MIT was perfect for someone as passionate about biology as I was - but would MIT be so well suited for my second passion? Would

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  it. I was really excited for the conference for a couple of reasons. For one, I've never heard Ben give an info session or speak before, and for another, I was actually interested in what they had to say. It

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  semester). Unless you want to be amazing and take 8.012 or 8.022 (Physics For ... 's affectionate synonym for "Technology-Enabled Active Leaning" and basically ... , homework can now be due late at night, or on weekends. For 8.01, there are 2

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

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  music supplement via email addressed to [email protected]. For performers ... need to be a music major for this to be considered (most people who ... most music classes or to be a part of the music program. For more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of the military, and for me, color guards symbolize each of those qualities ... the narrator for the retirement ceremony. The 20-year-old cadet, so

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007