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• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... -fi, thriller, satire aficionado but I'm open to any suggestions. Now to the book ... classical engineering as applied to biological and physiological phenomena

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  Most universities aim to attract well-rounded individuals with varied ... ) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity of research opportunities on campus, he was able to cross paths with Dr

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once you get to college. =) Also, Sam asked: "I just wanted to know how MIT handles research with freshman. Do they get to use the same facilities as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  for me while we sampled some AppleBake treats: I'm ashamed to say that ... eating to be done once I woke up, though! Right after hearing the AppleBake results, the Conner 2 freshmen rushed back up to our floor to work on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the Bio ... up in 2003 and is home to about 700 scientists. Ever seen those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because ... promise that we don't require new members to have prior cheerleading ... through our cheers a few times and warming up stunts, we went to the Z

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a ... prevention is always the best cure. "We have to learn that things have to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  Well now, this is a good way to start a blog entry. Megan '08, nine people I don't really know and I went down to Carson Beach today and then ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice, but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... truly matters to you, no matter how nontraditional it may seem + take

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  my summer vacation. DID YOU KNOW? Portland, ME was once home to the world's tallest building. After breakfast, we took a drive down to Old Port, which seemed to be both old and a port (compare to peanut

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My name is Mollie Burgoon. I live in Pickerington, Ohio. I go to Peace U

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... lunchtime on December 14, 2004. I promptly withdrew my applications to other schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  They say, "You snooze, you lose" -- Kevin and Daniel beat me to two ... night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... undergraduates go on to grauate school to earn a Master of Architecture (MArch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  applicant asked, "when r u goin to answer the questions??" Sorry ... to answer them now... Matt's Helper asked, "What did you major in, when ... understand some Hindi and Urdu (pakistani language) is quite similar to Hindi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff, I edit stuff, I design stuff, I format stuff, I code stuff. I try to keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip ... the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... everything around me. My water bottles have been akin to that, but instead

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is ... flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to ... -o-clock hour encroaches. sewing shirts Est. time: 1 hour each Shoutout to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024