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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  (buildings people care about) but nothing in 56 really other than that. As a freshman you may have a class or two in 56. I had my HASS class there and a ... in 56 as well. Here's a shot of the hallway from the other end. That

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Susan Hockfield’s Private Concert La la la la la la la laaaaaaa!!!!

  

  Yes, we are this cool. We perform our drinking song, in capes, for our president. Also, last year, the Marching Band was a bit more destructive. As you can see, Alex (a prefrosh then, an '11 now) decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  in that class, this pset will take ~forever. I need to finish it before ... I meet my prefrosh Chris '12 for CPW! In theory, by this point in time ... until 6. After UROP I am entrenched in CPW stuff for the rest of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... the same time. In the last two months - days, nights, weekends, whenever - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things ... to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... -3 week period in the Easter term (there are 3 terms: Michaelmas, Lent, and

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even ... . Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes ... shovel the sidewalks (that is, if you live in the dorms. As Gwen '08

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and ... finish line wins as usual. More on that in my next entry. I promised last ... transition temperatures that allow you to burn information onto a CD. In

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  change the world. With that in mind I started thinking about The Universe ... Laureate Frank Wilczek. Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 at the ... the audience, and he recites his sonnet, Virtual Particles in this talk

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MYSTERY HUNT! Live from Mystery Hunt!

  

  'm never eating either of those again. If you want to join in and remote

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Candyland @ MIT Not your average gingerbread houses!

  

  My dorm’s study break tonight consisted of a Gingerbread House Making Contest. Armed with candy, graham crackers, frosting, and ingenuity, seven teams of Baker House residents built architectural masterpieces in only an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I ... . We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the ... ,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The youngest known meteor impact crater in the world is located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... 's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of ... . The "nightclub of [my] dreams" is along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, which is roughly the equivalent of the Esplanade in Boston, except it's on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  I, along with 25,000 other people, found myself in Golden Gate Park ... /PG&E for sponsoring my participation in the walk. (... and my shirt ... an AIDS Walk in Boston, and on the morning of the event, a bunch of us

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one. My mom ... 's put it another way - if 200 million people try to register votes in that ... the three contestants essentially tied; the difference in votes was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Competition Tomorrow Better than Battlebots! 2.007 competition tomorrow!

  

  Alright everyone, tomorrow and Wednesday are the days I am SURE you have been waiting for. In the Johnson Athletic Center at 6:30 pm, we will be having the first round of the 2.007 competition. Wednesday at 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below ... *stunning* rings, we had dinner in an adjacent room. There were a bunch of stations serving different food, one of which served mashed potatoes in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Wrapup Final thoughts on Campus Preview Weekend 2006.

  

  ? It was great to meet so many of you! See you again in the fall =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2006