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• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  lot trouble admitting it. Even after several days of waking up with ... ! (Come on, how unprepared can you get?) It turns out that three of us missed the class last week because we were all THAT sick. And one of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  So I just read Ben's post regarding the official release date of ... finals. And that kinda blows because nobody likes finals. (Thus, in lieu of ... talking about what to blog about.) Also, nobody likes the suspense of big

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl ... -the-go young professional from the Northeast. However, in any kind of a tight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• 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

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  111-year history, in 1918. That was because of World War 1. So it's not ... Susan Hockfield, but I'm sick of hearing about global warming when I check ... 've been much more of lame-o about running outside since I got a MacBook and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  -clogging breakfast. Yum. 9:15 AM: Grabbed a cup of tea with Minh from the Lobby 7 ... -1:00 PM: Ate lunch with Dr. Ray Winquist, the Vice President of Vertex ... mentoring program called BioMatrix, which I have been a part of since freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received ... : What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by ... of Pi apparently, I made a few news appearances for Pi Day: Associated

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record ... , and changes of power on Capitol Hill. At MIT, we learned more about ... , 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

  

  close to me in pictures. Plus we do a lot of fun things together Sam ... forests of Santa Cruz, CA Back at MIT, we have taken PE yoga together: and done lots of weird things in our suite, usually after spending more

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

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what ... , and one day I found myself walking out of class across Killian Court to see a number of mirrors all lined out on the grass. Last year, students

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  sometimes takes a while to hear a response. Some of this may be attributed to ... that might take them out of the area traveling, or otherwise be ... know one EC who told me that some of her applicants’ emails wound up in

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Gave Love A Bad Name A night of talent.

  

  to serenades. Some of the acts from the night included my former ... of a 4" PVC pipe and a sheet of plywood. He also gave a short physics

  • by Bryan
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about ... , Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, by the Seattle Post

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  involves a bunch of artistic cows placed over the city. A friend of mine has ... there. I taped my favorite pair of running shoes back together with it too

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss ...und mein Leben ein Ziel hat.

  

  assignments for most of my classes are due this week. That means that while the ... with a chance of you're not going to get a blog entry this week. I want to complain, but, hey, it's pretty much the same for ninety percent of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies ... take off the waitlist. As of right now, it's too early to know anything ... . Regardless, if you are on the waitlist and hope to be taken off of the waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  pool. Some of my friends have been saying I got in because of my citizenship and they got rejected coz of the opposite reason, that's why I am ... applying to a school that I already sent the scores to? (of course MIT isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super ... take a cab, and a jar of vaseline to prevent chafing. That seems like ... of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT last year.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 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 ... students behind "Howe & Ser." For the memories, I've below tallied some of ... : Apparently CalTech flew out a crew of 20 to retrieve the cannon, and took it

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

  Preparing for CPW

  

  Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you ... be fun, and you'll get to meet all of the students you've been reading ... some pictures from the past week over the next couple of days as sleep

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006