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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my ... awoke every summer day at about Price is Right (10:00am for normal folks) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be ... thinking or worrying about admissions or your application at this point. you ... application of course, or what you want to do with your life, and so forth - but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  . Speaking of 7.05 (how am I so good at these segues?), I told Chris P. about ... . Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of ... at telling stories?). Peterson, be careful what you wish for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  exciting event at MIT last weekend. The Chinese Students Club (CSC) hosted ... , performances, and festive spirits – but the highlight came at the end. You see ... took both of my calculus finals. But on February 21st, the building was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  For those of you who don't remember or are new here (or don't care ... 'm spending the summer as an RTA for the Center for Talent Development at ... are brains, really, but they're at least marginally related to this post

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  overwhelming courseload of two classes, one of my classes 2.008: Design and Manufacturing II gave me a taste of the various manufacturing methods including ... , flexibility, and rate. But as you well know by now, at MIT, nothing is ever

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received advertising the event.   This Wednesday, 3/14 at 5pm in room 2-102, the ... : What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  broke at BC, everyone affected got a refund of $25 in TechCash from Larry ... It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... friends at Stanford write me long, tormented emails about their food

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  , and changes of power on Capitol Hill. At MIT, we learned more about ... the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record ... , designed fuel-efficient cars of the future, observed subatomic particles, won

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part

  

  forests of Santa Cruz, CA Back at MIT, we have taken PE yoga together ... close to me in pictures. Plus we do a lot of fun things together Sam ... City at least once a year (Witness Sam's sleeping-on-the-bus face) We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has recently been informed that Fleming House (tm) is at MIT RIGHT NOW and is ... students behind "Howe & Ser." For the memories, I've below tallied some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  moderated by MIT Professor of Chemistry John Deutch. The talk is hosted by the ... served as director general of Saudi Arabia's main foreign intelligence ... . Deutch ran the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as Director of Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  yesterday and they seem optimistic. Please note that it's not definite at this ... if something falls through, but I've received at least 40-50 emails or ... the obvious need for exhaustive testing and the nature of the admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  following: instead of me posting a topic and you responding, let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP. Here are the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  their goodbyes, she said something along the lines of: "at least we get a ... lists of ivy league schools they were interviewing at and how busy they ... best use of my time at MIT? Was I a failure? I was bringing myself down

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  term was not bad at all, but I still haven't achieved my MIT goal of ... 'm terrible at all of them. Well, I'm not bad at "Darris-style" ultimate frisbee ... and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  able to categorize supernovae, we need at least one week of continuous ... requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the ... the data they need as part of a larger project. the class ends with

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  those at MIT? Is it easier to get a good grade because of grade inflation ... entry has a bit of an identity crisis, since it didn't really have a ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  research at the meteorology institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and ... days, it can be ten to fifteen minutes of standing at the stop. Generally ... at work until 5 PM, I’m not going to be productive for the rest of the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  , Remember telling pick-up lines at the FLP talent show? I was scared of making ... light at the end of my tunnel is not visible yet, where you follow life ... In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018