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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  five teams, and the teams competed against each other for the title of ... ) Tuesday: Community service day - Made activity books for kinds at Children ... a jar and you could either put pennies and dollar bills for positive

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  learning Calculus are tied for first - I'm quite serious), and knew absolutely for sure hands down no doubts that this was the place for me. If you want to get technical about it, CPW served no other purpose for me other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those ... panelist Melis '08!) Click To Play Marching Band performs for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nothing, after all ... sticklers, take note of the proper use of quotations for the article's name and italics for the magazine!) Reading through the article, which

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I ... a study abroad is kind of like matchmaking. For one month (or ... MIT in anticipation to leave for Spain (after spending one night in my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  pictures (I included some below), and go for a run. Boston is known for ... for a marathon, like two blogger alums? Run the Harvard-Mt. Auburn Street Loop (14.1 miles)…twice! For a map, click here. Mitra had also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge. (For more info, read one of my previous ... , wrote an article called “The People We Have Been Waiting For.” In it, he ... parts or designs. I thought writing for my college newspaper was cool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  otherwise I'd feel incredibly bad for spending my entire morning writing in here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... long too tell you, and now it's too late to apply." So, for your

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the ... , Distinguished Visitors (DV) for the event. Lieutenant Reyes and I picked up the ... Blackhawk revs up for takeoff, you can feel the power surge through you. It

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  “Magic.” Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children who have a parent who has died from cancer, is currently in treatment for ... . For first-year camps like ours, the factor that limits the number of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a dorm REX chair- as one of two people responsible for organizing all of ... cream toppings. Right now I've got to run off for my second 8

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  #1: If you're paying for your food, you're doing something wrong ... . So keep the cash in your wallet for your MIT sweatshirt. Rule #2: If ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  motoring after using nothing but the MBTA and Amtrak for twelve months ... not stay around MIT for January like most people? It's not like I'm spending time with family instead, a popular alternative for some. I actually

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  Haven. My essay for MIT was about my life before age 8. My interview for ... classes I'd like to take at MIT and realized I'd be here for 8 years. So I ... think I am unpopular and start doing things for attention. That's it for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  From the article "Engineering changes for the better in Haiti: Local ... 5, 2005 Smith's ''genius" for designing simple and affordable ... ; eventually, we will pull it out and have a nice column of space for the fire

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  Three hallmates and I piled into a Zipcar the other night for a trip ... rent the car for two hours and split the cost between four people. I ... you Cam's LED project. He worked on this thing for like two weeks

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  bought by saving for half the cost and having her parents chip in the rest ... , said she knows her daughter is ready for college. "She's more mature than ... engineering. Ironically, selling Champagne will help Molly Pounds pay for her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next ... people I know in various states.) So for the basics. My name is Mollie ... in the UROP program for three years; I currently have authorship on an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  of the bears. I'll be brief, for the sake of wit. First, Ling '07 ... inscription "Made in England." For Mitra, here is the Iran bear. For Ruth ... Prep through ESP, here is the quite vibrant Georgia bear. For fans of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006