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• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  major from Bombay who dreams of one day studying at a prestigious advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... think? Could the bunny hat use a bit of an update? Anyway, over the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news event from the month of June 2006? This entry is actually about pictures from Nice, but one of the Bahn stations in München is called Freiheit

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

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  -class faculty, plethora of student groups, proximity to the cultural center of ... thing about MIT is that about 90% of the student body really has no idea ... school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching

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

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  of you who applied Early Action have received your decision, and those of you who applied Regular Action have begun your anxious waiting ... general. A lot of you talk about getting into MIT as though it is your goal

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of thin layer of insulating material called Kapton sandwiched between two sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... -cheddar biscuits, and "suite potatoe" pie. We had lots of fun and cultured ... employment of my high school friend Ryan at Doc Holliday's. 3. Every Friday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people ... time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband during Class of 2005 Orientation in August 2001, and they've been ... reunion with many of the '05s from my floor. Okay, enough with the romance

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... Hop with people you know from all branches of MIT. Jose is course 6. And they ... . ----------------------------------------------- I'm not usually the kind of person who wonders what fun tastes like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  and paint it back at the end of the year. Just so my readers know, I ... couple. :) Nicole R. asked: "Do most of the dorms have bunk beds or two ... four separate beds, or two sets of bunk beds, or a set of bunk beds and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  When you think of people at MIT, maybe you think of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, or perhaps you think of President Susan Hockfield. You probably think of the Nobel winners, such as Prof. Wolfgang

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  parts: 4 weeks of product management 8 weeks of software engineering ... basically had to do a lot of networking and running around and cold DMing and ... kinds of interviews. This is not meant to be an end all, be all guide to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons, human skeletons and skeletons of human-like primates, and skulls on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  living group, the Burton Third Bombers, on [annotation note="the weekend of the Boston Marathon"]the Sunday of Patriot's Day weekend ... Third) DTYD started in 1969 when two Bombers (Classes of ’70 and ’71

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the ... (Courses 6-3 and 21M, of Random Hall): "We all know that MIT is the best there is for science and engineering, but many of the humanities

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... ."    And thus, The Double was born. The inception of this idea sent us ... of me that I'd thought I'd outgrown or discarded— I'd close my eyes and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  clubs, but didn't drop any clubs from last year, so now I'm kind of overbooked, but this is entirely of my own doing. I have a ton of blog posts ... much, and being part of this station is one of my favorite things about

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Petey had a mighty nine-year run of writing this post, but a king [of ... 's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions ... Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Compared to the previous, this semester was less tumultuous, more of a steady rush of things-to-do rather than a series of breathless waves ... up at the end of every semester: learning more from my classes

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024