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• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  It's time for one of those "It's late and I'm up, I should throw crap ... handle it? I've decided to post all of the YouTube videos that I ... , I saw all of these videos while attending here, meaning that something

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  -word gets thrown around a lot these days, which I think is sort of sad, since in the long run that only degrades the full impact and true value of ... to these very blogs, as - quite simply - a labor of love. Everyone in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and ... the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s ... me some credit, people - I'm not that big of a nerd, although I do

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  Despite being the middle of winter, on Friday the entire Boston area ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain. Yes, you read that right: rain. For a variety of reasons, this made me less than happy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... pink) There are many, many applications to be reviewed. I know some of ... lots) of mail. (The Wall Street Journal today is reporting that our early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  's a hall) of East Campus called the Disco Dance Floor. Matt blogged ... that has some sort of entertainment value will get its 15 minutes of fame ... dude!". Now thats out of the way let me move on. Great job with the floor

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tell Me Baby ..what's your story?

  

  ! What did YOU do when you got into MIT? Example: I'm Sandy, one of Jess ... much more substantial entry coming soon - but speaking of rockstars, last week I went to two very incredible shows by two of my favorite bands (not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  'm happy to report that I feel much better now. I was seriously out of it ... of right now, the corners of my lips are raw, and I still look like a ... get a copy of the detailed syllabus for the GIRs so I can start

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Videos and photos and more Lots of cool coverage of MIT stuff from sites, blogs, and vlogs across the web.

  

  Lots of fun stuff to check out! Peter Houk, director of the MIT ... ): Check out (also: 1, 2) the annual parade of elephants, which delighted folks across campus this past Thursday (I, of course, missed it for the 11

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  day of class. I know! It was terribly embarrassing. But I'm not an EECS major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of those buildings on the north end of campus. Of course, I played it off

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  of San Francisco do this every weekend, but do they do it on bikes they ... to walk our bikes down a steep set of stairs, across a path underneath the bridge, and carry them up a steep set of stairs on the other side

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  For those of you who are closely following the Doonesbury comic strip ... June, here are some excerpts: Alex Doonesbury, the daughter of the main ... Cornell. When the poll closed at midnight on May 22, MIT had 48 percent of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks ... barbecue. I don't like taking pictures of myself while eating, but I don't mind taking pictures of other people while THEY'RE eating. People

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating ... . I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental ... maybe I need to start looking at the glass of science as half full. And

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to ... ? (All photos are credit of Jo Tong '08) That's outside MIT's Green ... website. :) In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  Tonight, as MIT's Spring Break was wrapping up, we gathered up all of the student hosts who have returned from vacation (hundreds of them ... hear from your host well in advance of arriving at CPW [and even if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  attracted quite a bit of news coverage. CBS Boston video The Boston Channel ... . You can read a decent list of hacks from the last couple of years here. Unfortunately most of them have no descriptions or pictures yet, but it at least

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  actually in the process of pitching the concept to the discovery channel ... at the last page of the pdf. Soon, they will be posting the pilot of ... enough, I was walking down the Infinite on my way to study for one of my

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  Electric Mayhem. But the biggest time sink of all of these is MASLab, the ... with that name after Brian '08, one of my teammates, said that on the first day of class. MASLab is staffed entirely by students, who give us

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006