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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means: I'll go the gym starting tomorrow!! And from this week on, I'll gym 3 times a week. I'll be strong, fit, the works. On Jan 2, it means: ahhhhhh

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  information. One ballroom dance website had the lessons listed on Mondays and the other site had the lessons listed as occurring on Tuesdays and ... the count, it's not that hard to follow. By the end of the 1 hour lesson

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  trying to stay on the boat, trying to find the bottom with my stick, and ... Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... tomorrow. The really great thing about coming to Cambridge is that we’

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed ... , I've been settling in to my summer studio apartment, interning the 9

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... asked to help with the routing problem, Perlman spent 30 minutes ... direct information traffic on the Internet -- earned her the nickname

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below ... to the band: Here, Albert and Olivia climbed the lions guarding the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  .) --------------- Thanks for all of the comments on my previous entry about PE classes ... to admit, the resemblance is uncanny. Huge thanks to Phil '07 for the invite to the Synopsys BBQ! We were the wrong age for this event

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  I'm well on my way to the goal. ... over the other proves to be a mind-clearing activity. So while stuffing clothes into the drawer this week, I realized that since I've come to MIT, I

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  row way on the other end of the room. I want to interject here and say ... next to the Page lab on the fourth floor of the Whitehead Institute, so I ... on my Smartpen, and happened to also record the serenades to share with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  and saw: Divine intervention? On my way back to the Student Center ... to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica on the big screen with a huge and rowdy group of MIT students, and I'm looking forward to watching many of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  'm working on a shorter, catchier title). Aside from the brilliantly practical ... great article on the Opera of the Future over on the MIT News Office site. And hey, while we're all waiting for the Opera to show up a little

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  . On top of the movies every week, MIT gives RBA groups a lot of money to ... on it. As a prefrosh, I didn't know that much about the dorms so RBA ... honest, I got to know the other people in my seminar but I didn't really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spring Break! Spring Break Broke.

  

  So I'm sitting in the airport in Toronto on my way to London where I will be next week for Spring Break as well as Paris. I'll be sure to post photos and entries all this week. If you happen to be in London or

  • by Bryan
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  is redesigning admissions and SFS. Elizabeth and I were both on the ... :  The homepage we replace has given good service to the Institute. Since ... wanted to transform the Search function. We sought not just to make it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  into form. The design relies on the exact fit of the 32 stone blocks to ... killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013 ... , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  also a really important question on the board for residents to fill out ... on! And unless the person physically comes to the lounge to cross off ... camera!" Every semester on the Sunday before finals week, my hall also

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... and precedes a forthcoming trip to Kansas and Nebraska. The trip began ... , so I headed out to Park City to see the Olympic site, and up to Temple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  your talents to go on to do wonderful things with the education and ... We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does the Office of the First Year do?

  . The mission of the office is to provide excellent services and programs to catalyze student exploration and access to opportunity, and promote ... The Office of the First Year supports a number of programs that