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• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  It's late Saturday night, Sunday morning by Boston time, and I'm hunched over on the airport floor. My eyes are glazed with the exhausting ... for now, since it'll probably change by tomorrow and we'll be back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling ... to fly by for no reason at all - but I also know people that run like a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to ... way that I solve problems like that is by breaking it down into a series

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  song "I who have nothing," by Jordin Sparks, because I'm totally done ... , that way you won't get screwed by airport exchange rates" plan. So I have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  by the time I had actually gotten around to planning out 07/07/07 it ... the Tempur-Pedic® mattresses. We were briefly accosted by the salesman

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  that I had to finish it. It's like when your mom calls you by your first ... probably didn't intend all this free wifi to be used by someone who's already

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  . Also, every now and then, somebody will whizz by on a scooter. It's a ... , by default, are placed in RBA. (Ask me how I know.) And even though RBA

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  somehow determined by its physical structure. I think Burton-Conner's culture is pretty much defined by fire alarms. Yeah, fire alarms and that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  slides -- when you shake up a water/protein solution (for example, by ... anything to do with what the water is actually surrounded by. A single bubble

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  more of the following: 1. Design of a system followed by construction ... GPA by the end of your junior year). Philosophically, the MEng program

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  good website that I found today MIT-area shopping guide by Spouses and ... registration by computer or do we have to go to different places to register for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  talking at the debate, watched by opponents Dwight Chambers '07 and Chris ... -President. By the time this is published, I will no longer be in that office, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  student directory calls "year: 1." So what's the moral of the story? If by May you're still dreaming, if you're unfazed by any setbacks you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  , can undergrads start UROPs by themselves, i.e. Plan a project, approach ... minimum wage for UROPs is currently $9.00 per hour; if you get paid by your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  symphony, a wind ensemble, a jazz ensemble, and a Gamelan conducted by ... string quartet by Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer John Harbison. I'd say

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  wrote that was commissioned by a university. I feel that I've posted too ... 's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  to freshmen by people who were little kids, if that, when the events ... listening to a story told by someone who graduated when the current freshmen

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  understanding it, and there has never been an acceptable production done by ... nothing else to do, we capped off the evening by strolling into the nearby

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  -2-6 Mechanisms by which the amino acid sequence of polypeptide chains determines ... , school choice by K-12 students, Social Security versus private retirement

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005