Search

Search Results

• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As ... actually know anything about. Places I've been are highlighted in blue. (Also ... 'm spending spring break visiting Adelaide in France, with a 2 day excursion to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation process in which you are formally admitted into the university and your ... college. All the CME students participated in this process. My college

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  studying civil engineering. I’m participating in the Cambridge ... University). The term “punting’ in MIT lingo means to relax, chill, and avoid pseting (the opposite of punting is tooling). But here in the

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... coming in low over New House. It was an awesome sight; definitely not

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  ... check it out! Let us know what you think, either in the comments section ... came up last semester over a lunch meeting at the Forbes Family Cafe in ... and Star in a classroom in Building 1, with Minh in her dorm, Mc

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey ... /the grocery store/class in the cold. So basically every day I've been ... is what I mean: Edit: Ruth pointed this out in her comment below- it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  for fall 2007! pfffft!), we offer at least math 10 classes in nonlinear dynamics, not counting other ones that might be in other courses (fluid ... even have the words "Nonlinear Dynamics" in the title! These are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Ever find yourself sitting in lab, thinking "What in God's name am I ... ) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed. «Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  (and huge crowds!) in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago (both the city and ... real homecomings for me. In the few moments that I wasn't working, I was able to see some family and good friends in both places (if any of you

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this ... folks at doonesbury.com shut down voting access for those in the mit ... consists of emfs and resistors into: an emf plus a resistor in series

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most ... hall, and he hadn't been back in the building since the early 1970s. Talk ... advisors in a social setting far removed from your work. :-) - In French

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general ... in terms of general advice, let's see. There are no specific activities ... , it looks for attributes that you can demonstrate in just about any

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  college apps are likely still an irksome item on your mind. I'm in Southern ... the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a ... giving considerable thought to a major in management, with minors in civil

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  Institute Requirement in Physical Education. The requirement includes ... as soon as possible or you will place your graduation status in ... education office 8 weeks in advance of registration, so that arrangements can

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  wanted to live here and study here. Who wouldn't want to be in the center ... , in the urban locale of Boston and in the cosmopolitan Northeast? "In." If only I were to get in, I thought, I'd be set. My life would be made

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... '07 is printing out in dazzling color as you read this, and nary a good night's sleep in three days. DID YOU KNOW? Building 66, designed by MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  -dollar fall retreat at a cabin in New Hampshire with the dorm, both of which ... test that I keep in a special place that I take out and read through and ... in the class took full advantage of that stipulation, so I made out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  . I received an email in my inbox that read: yesterday was someone ... done first. bryan: you're in charge. if the work isn't done, you're the one in trouble. if however, you can't do it yourself, maybe you wanna

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  comments in the previous entry - so hysterical and creative. Reading that ... record, we were indeed in a viewbook planning session - Saad you were right ... wholly tongue-in-cheek. The bad email came from angry environmentalists who

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... stored it in my Athena locker. One of my more notorious quirks is that I keep my sleep statistics in a set of Excel files. Every morning when I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005