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• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  grandparents' flat was torn down to make more room for roads. I've gone to school ... ideas. A restlessness that keeps me searching. And above all a love for ... all this for Arecibo or if I just copied and pasted from some college

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... say magic, but we actually had to go through the proof for this and I ... you make it through a hellish week here. That hellish week for me is

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for ... accepted into the University of Chicago early action, and life was set for me

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  celebrations for your enjoyment. I met up with my friend Martin and we ... time with the thousands of people chanting. Here's another video for ... . The ones who were there were blissfully happy, smiling all day for no

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  advice courtesy of Sara Ferry '11. It's time for some more Boston advice ... ," not like "coh-opp." Now for places around Boston: Copley Square ... for y'all in case you aren't motivated enough to make your own. More

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  Muhammad Yunus speak. Dr. Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize last year for ... – for example, “SP.721: D-Lab” and “21A.338J ... get involved as one of the Directors for the Academic Relations Team

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  made my way down to Chinatown, where I went shopping crazy for my peeps back home. I brought home a Chinese newspaper and a few gifts for my special lady in Minnesota, along with a couple of trinkets for my family. My

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... , which makes me incredibly sad -- why did I go back and fix the code for ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ding_out.shtml The first step (Mollie): Asking for help at MIT http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  one of endurance, that you do it over and over again for 26 miles and it ... vying for course 16 grads at career fairs, I'd say you're pretty set if ... me wrong. I'm still your source for all things Course 16. My intentions

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  atop my mini-fridge for a long, suspenseful day before its first chance ... we head for Briggs Field where everything was coming to a head. On our ... rocket do, Jesse? For those that are interested, this is our official

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  more. The catalyst for last night’s dearth of shuteye was a combination ... and one just downstairs. It seems like for the past few months, people ... for you. (Numbers and underscores suck. It’s the million-dollar question

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  chemical change, so what gives? This has now been bothering me for over a ... able to update my blog this summer! I feel so guilty for my prolonged ... of water, basically waiting for some major accident to happen. I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  academic futures for Alex Doonesbury: Should she go to Rennselaer, Cornell ... Cornellians to the poll in numbers sufficient for Big Red to catch up. "We ... Doonesbury Straw Poll Congeniality Award. As for the question at hand -- Where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , which was a bad thing for kids, since lead ions in aqueous solution taste ... reprimanded for said freaking by the school guidance counselor or driver's ed ... passionate article about this for The Tech entitled "Don't Tap The Glass" and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  , Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined ... the party so that I could pretend to sleep for half an hour before getting ready for class. I'm glad I was there. It's one of those things

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it ... Sloan faculty heard the desires of the MIT community for a recognized

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  day, then I'm catching the redeye to Boston at 10 PM. Look for me to answer a bunch of questions later today. For right now, I just want to be a little lazy and watch TV -- I've been talking to people almost nonstop for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  the Men's Ice Hockey game for a little Marching Band on Ice action and ... liberated from solid food for the rest of my life by an errant puck. Yes, we ... I think he deserves some credit for the whole affair. And we got

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  the Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) at MIT have developed a ... sort of microscope for charges, where each foil acts as a lens. Once the ... oscilloscope, it can detect, for example, whether a particle is an electron or a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  couple of examples. Take for example, 18.02, Multivariable Calculus, a ... . Now here's my take on all this (feel free to ask around for other ... entry be without photos? For the next two months, I'll be highlighting

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005