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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  potato farmer in Idaho. I digress. Here's my schedule for the week, which ... TA for 8.022, a class of which I am partaking. -Physics dinner = I ... presumably for freshmen. At MIT, presumably. Maybe I presume too much. Maybe I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... your chair. He spent four years waking me up at 5 AM for school, which is ... .) I've been taking the 8-9AM hour at desk every weekday morning for the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool ... table, etc. For much of the two weeks, the lab looked a lot like this ... excited for that! I'm filming this year (have I mentioned that?) and get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  longed for something I had once enjoyed but could no longer possess. And I ... buddy Ben, you see, has had - for as long as I've known him - a slight ... , without even thinking, that I had found my going-away gift for Ben. Because

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  temps for the holiday, meaning that as I sit here typing this entry I'm earning money not just for blogging but also for building toys (only one of ... for a concert I was told started at 7:00 PM. I strapped on my skates

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  location. 2. The Sailing Pavilion. For members of the MIT Nautical ... love creating their own venues for watching the festivities. Thanks to ... . The live cannons for 1812 are always a big hit. Here are some photos I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  , but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for ... with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh ... to figure out what to do about that but for now I have broken metal

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even ... -doc and my primary mentor for the summer. After introducing me to a number

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  to head back home for a week ago and see my family (Boston is amazing ... what lab I'll be in: I'll be working in the Koch Institute for ... - and I'm sure he'll explain the finer details as we go along. As for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . Moreover, this set is rather rigidly defined for undergrads; it's an old ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... remember most about Cambridge. As for Biochemistry, I hope students in either

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most ... and alkynes in preparation for my upcoming midterms in 5.12 (organic ... differential systems for 18.03 (differential equations). Yes, I have two midterms

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  ! Kudos hackers, well done. Now, for the advice. The summer before I came to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... special traditions, but it's not so fun for the tourist and the non

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  for you. Hot dog contests, Toy Fair, snowball fights, the Ig Nobels, and ... about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... focusing on the play, but the work is certainly there. For those of you who

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  installation of a web server. I worked for two hours before hurrying over to the ... Club. Now it is noon time, and I have already worked for five hours, and ... UROP lab for a few hours and then do some coding for 6.370, a java

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  MIT proper, I have been in Spain for more than two weeks! I don't know ... beautiful country. Recap (for people who are wondering why I'm in Europe ... for 50 minutes. Here, if you can't speak Spanish, then you just can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  session. We built a loft for James '11, and a table for each of us. Okay, so ... expected it to be, especially when I put it in my room. I tried it out for a ... troops for battle. The army men hunker down in a trench (...created by a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  admissions office for a million years, currently serving as the director of the ... was mailed, for the tracking system to be accurate. If on November 14th ... know, November tests are acceptable for Early Action, but the scores will

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  campus for the first time as an actual student - when I said that final goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for ... for the first time, and filling out that neat little form listing all of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small ... . For 35 ambitious Juniors in an average high school, this was our first ... for the end of the period no one stood up; instead, heads bent to clear

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names ... pick through my junk mail. All senior year I got scholarship offers for ... is not that I myself am not the gender I've been assuming for the past

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007