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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel ... cricket? 5. How can we best improve our nation's economy? 6. Why bother to ... , $30 of which went toward buying me this awesome ticket specifically so I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  Montreux! No. Well, do you know when I can get in to see the statue? No. I ... night to buy me A Night at the Opera (ah, the dark ages before iTunes). I ... their final album, Made in Heaven, which I own. I own pretty much all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... and depth in a single field. As I mentioned in my blog post about the ... concentration, I have seen just tremendous, insatiable intellectual hunger in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  in person. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled upon him, but I just ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... am utterly in awe of everything he does. When I read Jonny Sun's name

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... contradiction, you can prove anything. I had fun doing this in middle school by ... of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  rocked and I think you should buy it. Actually, I have no idea how to play ... thing in the world? I leave this as an exercise for the reader. I can ... ...and have you seen "Underworld?" My friends in Harrisburg and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... - like when I want to go injure myself playing Frisbee in NH - that having

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  assume I should put this in the optional essay part but can you verify ... at a hospital). How do I report this in my application?" For ... regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can ... after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how ... Institute. In the meantime, I'm polishing up a nice spot on my hand, where I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  in her lab. I’ve heard you can ask profs for UROP positions after ... people. I'd talked with Ellen about being women in STEM, and how we'd found ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public ... as an MIT cheerleader -- and I think I won't have a voice in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... 's quite surfaced yet :') That being said, I'm working in Washington, DC

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  in the stereotypical self-introduction. Hi! I'm Evan. I'm in the Class ... stereotypical MIT Course Sixer. I live in Burton-Conner, along with way too many ... 's website if you really want to know). I'm not quite done yet - there are

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  Adam to teach them how to fly model airplanes. In the evening, I ... to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... burritos (I'm pretty sure they must have crack in them... so good. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Like Never Before Kevin Rustagi '11 talks about the MIT LMC and then some.

  

  website, as well as iTunes. Kevin gave me a copy of the CD, titled Like Never Before, and I'm really loving tracks 4 (Levi Schmidt - I Don't Mind ... Hey you guys! I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Rustagi

  • by Celena C. '12
  • August 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  happen. I included videos of the talks in this entry, and I highly ... board in early April, and it was wonderful. I remember one night when the ... said he was excited to be involved in such an event: "I was particularly

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  this deathly level in Little Big Planet! I visited my high school AS AN ... comment about how odd I felt to be a college student returning home. You ... about Python since I feel I can always develop my Course 6 skills. Plus

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Whew, I’m exhausted even thinking about it! In all seriousness, this IAP I will be... - Working on my UROP in the BioInstrumentation Lab ... (it’s like OpenCourseWare but for lab work. I’ll be blogging about it in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Are We Waiting For besides this video from the freshman arts program

  

  (appropriately) to the MIT Movies Emeritus page. In its place, you can find "What ... like to support the band, you can download it from iTunes here. p.s. if ... we could feature it on the website, and they said yes! Starring

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2011