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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and ... In spirit, not much has changed over the last three years. Hi. I ... optimization. I live in East Campus with a ginger cat named Reese, who takes his

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off ... Genetics test. In my book, that’s a win. This was turning out to be the ... Mentoring Social! You were probably wondering how I was going to tie this in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  in the forgotten mists of 2004, I was editing the newspaper, the lead in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the memorial fund of a classmate who died in a car wreck - and oh yeah, applying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  : :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Mathura: scared samvaran, hahaha me: LOL, poor guy. i'm giggling in my room ... alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness ... -must-take-pics-of-everything norm. Soon after, WE GOT IN OUR BOAT - ahhhh *cue Mathura's excited

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the ... Facebook didn't suck - where was I - ah yes - in the old days, when I was in ... can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  Association, and I do my research in Camera Culture, a group at the Media Lab ... experiences with you all! Ken Haggerty '11: I'm a junior majoring in brain + cognitive sciences with a minor in architecture. I was incredibly lucky to be

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  friend in the head while gesticulating the angle between a wall clock and the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  us. A couple of days later a kid in my suite had similar symptoms, went to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite was blue-masked, then another guy in my suite appeared one day with a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  't know, I'll go ask Yan. But if you're interested in what your 4th or maybe ... being more involved in non-class things this year, like clubs, sports, and ... vomited in their mouths a little). I miss waking up and looking out and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  final day of school in the comments, graduation day doesn't count unless ... worth of photos to put in my blog and writing my entries, I thought it ... accomplishment in a video game. -An awesome lab -A picture you feel best embodies

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three ... element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... I've broken many, many promises of various entries on this and that in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  about it a while back on my personal blog so if you're interested in more ... engine called "Wolfram Alpha." It's not like Google in that it doesn't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  :59pm, simply visit decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username ... decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. Admissions decisions ... click on the lost password link in the orange log-in box on the left. If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In ... Instrumentation Lab, which Melis '08 worked in as an undergrad, is also involved in some ... single molecule fluorescence and optical tweezers, researchers in the Lang

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  . “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... am in bed. In just a few hours, fiziks will be done, And I will have ... : Early admits, in one year you, too, could be, Freshmen learning the truth

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  delivery specialist Ryan has just placed your pizza in his Domino-mobile as ... America, or something. In other news, this is what I see when I log in to ... residence in Massachusetts. All I had to do was bring a credit card statement

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in ... submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system. We have ... tracking system. They will submit everything in due time, and we will have it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow ... Birdhouse in Your Soul, blasting out of her boyfriend's speakers. This video ... Of Toolage, cementing its place in history. As long as there is MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  secondary options? I have some in mind, but none of them seem to match up to ... help, and the great insight you provide to those of us looking in from ... Institute of Technology is another good technology school in Hoboken, New

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008