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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... available to me that I wouldn't have anywhere else. The world's best ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International ... great to see everyone. Note to '11s: Ben, Bryan and I are generally around this week and next, though we're quite busy with meetings to prepare for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Two or three Thursdays before finals, Peach '09 and I went to Au Bon ... complained about something or other, I began to enter the Summer Jobless stage ... was a counselor at this one camp and I was supposed to do it again this

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

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

  

  arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... to tell but if a picture's worth a thousand words, then 18 pictures are worth at least 18,000 words so let's get started right away no time to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... coffee when I got home so I might have been able to post mine first, but ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  Chun To: Us Subject: Your Mission v2.008 Your mission should you choose to accept is to build 50 yo-yos including at least three parts. This ... were set on our way to make some yo-yos. We could have made a simple yo

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

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to ... flashing red). I wasn't there to see the daunting skies, but it reminded me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  I don't have much to say, I would just like to bring this to your ... narrow victory for Lowell. (Photo credit to Eric Schmiedl '09) Yes, that ... partying. It also has mudwrestling. In addition to my mudwrestling, I worked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just this question, but I gave a short answer and deferred to my colleagues. I promised the student I would link to the latest ZigZag video ... to change the world. (Read more about Mitra's D-Lab experience in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  , it's the only way to fly. I don't care how you take it, but my CPW ... met, to the numerous fraternities I visited, to the awesome trips to a breakdancing competition at Tufts University and my little venture to Chinatown

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a different approach to the GIRs. Typically, freshman classes have huge ... talking to your professor when it's you, them, and a few other students who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  changed my name to Samsam Siam. No no, I've actually just taken all the spare pictures from last month that I had meant to blog and assembled them ... distraught to fix them at all. This is Lauren, who was incredibly pink at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  , so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to ... sharing stories about phone calls last year to freshmen we know and love now ... calling his name and we finally were able to introduce ourselves to each

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  , decided to welcome her return with a nice poster:   And a few ballons ... ’s nothing to say here, except that it turned out that the air compressor Zach bought at Target operated on a 12 volt car battery, so he had to get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ran away to a meeting. Here's what he emailed me today: Mitra, Where ... do enter it please be sure to be clear about the bass so as not to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The ... I had the chance to go to the game. We started off by visiting the ... . (Disclaimer: These photos are in no way intended to discourage you from applying

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  attainment of inner peace necessary! Dress comfortably. I went to this ... This was a fantastic session, short enough to appeal to beginners, but long enough to achieve a little harmony and inner peace. If you're on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... picture I'm eating cake (white with buttercream, to be technical, because I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 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.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... good at not succumbing to temptation. Did I tell you about the time I was ... that I uploaded to my webspace a couple days ago, and therefore must be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006