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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  voting, despite being aware of current events, I never participated for ... I had to miss a free, pre-screening of Be Kind Rewind AND a chance to hear the awesome director Michel Gondry speak (courtesy of LSC), and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... of you who are out of the loop, fire fighters cook enough food for an ... . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little ... Union, Harvey Mudd, Olin College, RPI, and the University of Chicago. For ... the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  't remember any of it. My earliest memory is from 1987. I'm 10 months old ... school senior, the drum major of my marching band, the captain of the science team, and incredibly sure of myself. I had no idea I'd be where I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  , and hopefully, call in and vote. Here's ABC's summary of the show ... recipient of the million dollar prize. And some relevant info about Craig ... from ABC.com: Craig Forest & David Moeller, a team of two former

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  ) "let's eat tons of food and talk about our problems!" dinner. While Peach ... Spectrum duty desk in the lobby of McCulloch Hall at Northwestern University ... speeches for Persuasion and Debate or learning a full year of Latin in three

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... waste. Pictures of NASA Ames: (I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to post these

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  variety of activities that students do. All it takes to make a group is ... gift shop that said “There are 10 types of people in this world ... of the history behind MIT was surprisingly interesting, mostly because

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  engineering graduate school of some repute. My return flight through Chicago was cancelled due to Chicago being buried under 20 stories of golfball-sized hail ... 'm flying back to Boston by way of Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... . 1), RPI (Jan. 15), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 2). For those ... midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... cover story. I'm so on to them.) I've always been one of those people who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Wolverine is from CANADA. Okay, first of all, who ... aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time. Kind of like how people who live by waterfalls don't hear the water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 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.

  

  formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... , they would get a lot of money. No, really. This man had been teaching ... featured in my blog according to my law of conservation of webspace. We had

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

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  Guillen taking advantage of chance to attend MIT, play football By ... lies ahead for St. Joseph Academy senior Daniel Guillen is one of the ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted, however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  Laura and I have the same birthday. What's the probability of that ... the lack of meaningful updates recently; my life has been tremendously ... Dartmouth on the bus to visit and I gave him the grand walking tour of Boston

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

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

  

  . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been ... a dorm, the position of desk captain requires actual work, with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  generic meal plans like most other schools do, but instead have a sort of ... required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... Cormick, Baker, Next, and Simmons, all of which are open Sunday through Thursday

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans across the world. And of course, MIT has more than its fair share of HP ... I be doing for the big release? Let me tell you about some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  is placed on long-term retention of learning, has been a good ... , being at an academic institution with over 800 years of tradition gives you a different sort of feeling. I hope that I will be able to use some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005