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• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  different dorms and decide which one they want? You can see them all when you ... get accepted, you can come stay with an MIT student and we'll show you the ropes. If you can't make it up for an overnight visit, there

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  for a trash can, and then walked into the room. I am so smart. And I thought hey, if I can get lost in the middle of campus after 3 years of ... probably be called 32 before long because nobody can agree on how to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  Sam's Mom in the early morning for the 8-hour trip up Boston way. I can ... , who knows me best, to talk all about that as soon as I can. Try to be as ... -- Wage a land war in Russia in the winter. I can't wait to see you all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  yesterday's entry for, well, more pictures. I, I can remember standing by ... -language tour guide said, "You can tell the new architecture from the old ... can walk through them. Definitely a unique experience. But most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  bloody severed mannequin hands. I can't think of any way that you could ... features pyramids constructed out of cans of squid paste. How many cans of ... , duh. Still, I have no trouble sleeping on rocks (so you can imagine how

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  unlike any other school in the world. As a freshman, you can work in the ... even more amazing honey-flavored liquid nitrogen ice cream. Can you say ... finally meet a lot of you. You are all awesome and I can't wait to see your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  bed. Some students have futons in their rooms you can sleep in. I am in ... with Adam's airplane stuff) so they can be together and not have to be ... 're getting to campus. If you're arriving by air, you can take the airport

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  when. You can count on me, can't you? I think I eventually come to love ... , can you please update me with your internhip plan this summer, and if you already know where you will work, can you please tell me: * the name

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  I fixed it. Thanks a bunch. Moral of the story: I can't spell, but neither can google, so it's ok. Curtis: Though I actually have a few ... to rest up tonight so I can dedicate as many hours as I possibly can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Section 2.12 of the Rules of the Faculty, no classes or tests can be ... has really strict rules about Division III athletics, that can get really messy. I can also say that the field hockey and football teams often

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  . 18th, Mira Loma, Sacramento session." Aha, oops. You can RSVP at http ... ). You can review the list of meetings at http ... , choose their major from among all of MIT's majors. Later, you can add

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... Pods--I think that they can cut you off from the outside world too much, which is ... brilliant marketing technique when you can remove basic functionality from an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  for three hours. While doing that, I got paid $27.75. Mitra can explain ... intention of joining them--make sure to do this as much as you can freshman ... nation, so I guess they can make up all the linear waves they want. I also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life ... or displaced by Hurricane Katrina. We can only imagine the extent of ... to work with you and accommodate your situation as much as we can. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  lending a book out can approach $2 for some libraries; printing out a black-and-white copy on-demand can cost as little as 50 cents. [...] When the ... the petabox. (You can build your own in the basement, since they made

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  are different options you can follow to study multiple fields. For two ... that for unrelated fields, it can't be done. As you asked about Physics ... -major because your three "intellectually coherent unit" subjects can be in your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  better than my more sparse dye job, shown above. Oh, I can be like your ... tomorrow! I promise! You can hold me to that. It would tear my soul in twain ... . "And then you can post this on your blog, and the prefrosh will ask, 'Can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  is the final day MIT students can "drop" a class. MIT is fairly flexible about things, as classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  Massachusetts] on November 10, 1979. You can actually listen live right now to ... . The schedule can be viewed here. One of the interesting shows on WMBR ... ) * Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell) * You Can't Always Get What You Want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  choose the best students we can without regard to how much money they will ... experiences and countries. You can get a sense of our current international (and ... . This is a true statement. Because we can only admit 5% of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005