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• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known ... ). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a hot sauce manufacturing company, to obtain a perfect score on Pacman

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  As you've likely read, Snively, Paul, and Bryan will be hosting a ... 's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr account. For those of you who are unfamiliar with tumblr, it's a great site

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a ... build toys without a shop, so the powers at be went out and bought a ... ordinary classroom into a better-than-average shop. Before the debate

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

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  reassure you that MIT does have humanities classes, and a lot of them are ... Hispanic Literature. We read a different book each week (Bodas de Sangre, La Nada Cotidiana, La Plaza del Diamante, El Beso de la Mujer Arana, and a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I decided to come back here a little early to go see an AMAZING concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... back in Boston. Too bad - it turns out that Florida is a pretty cool

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  , to the point that I sound like a drowning male frog through a voice ... that I've decided to live my life as a boy, and will be getting a court ... support! It's been a long month of spamming people I haven't talked to in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  Manufacturing II gave me a taste of the various manufacturing methods including ... message will self-destruct in a minute. Bye! So that was it and then we were set on our way to make some yo-yos. We could have made a simple yo

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  So supposedly, there's a weather machine that comes around every CPW ... , its timing was off by a week, but fortunately (for me, not for you ... course of writing this entry (and all I wrote about was something about a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  (EDT) Subject: is there a meetthebloggers party and am i invited? -lulu ... though, to meet me, that is. You know where I live. Here a special shoutout ... when I was a wee freshman and now she's all grown up and class of 2011

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  airplanes and toilet paper into a lecture hall? ... Well, it starts with one ... toilet paper across 10-250. Why in the world would someone do such a thing? Well, that's a good question. Each year, the MIT Chorollaries host the

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The ... have a weird dancing face) Mitra, Steph, and Me Now the game was one ... to Yale.) And WAIT! This really is not just a rivalry of two schools

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, this is a lab class where we learn ... as velocity profiles in a pipe or internal pressure of a soda can

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  -Intelligencer. MIT scientists Ian Garrick-Bethell, Jack Wisdom (what a name!) and Maria Zuber may have figured out why the moon has a funny shape. [NYT] [Science] An MIT researcher has developed a technique to deblur shaky camera

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  Boston is a living GameBoy game this summer with the Cow Parade. All across ... involves a bunch of artistic cows placed over the city. A friend of mine has ... must have been someone after my own heart. A DUCT TAPE COW!!! Duct tape

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Conservative pundit Ann Coulter once described on a VH1 special how she smeared herself with purple Crisco before a Grateful Dead concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  A couple of you asked for the recipe for my plantain crusted salmon ... sides of the salmon with salt and pepper. In a blender or food processor ... yams in a can. Blend the sweet potatoes with a little water or milk. Add

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have ... pretty well set up here--I opened a bank account, almost entirely in German ... can tell a lot from social cues, hand gestures, and a limited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  It was a nice, relaxing 3-day weekend here. Summer has arrived in Boston. Now, after a lull in posting over the holiday and during yesterday ... remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Yesterday's New York Times had a nice piece about MIT alum Pat Mc ... , and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was about 15 when I read "Giant Brains, or Machines That Think," a step

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I think I've attended a grand total of one since the end of my freshman year ... 'm sure a lot of you high school seniors are. On one hand, I've had a super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006