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• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  know the answer to that question. All I know is that I'm here now, and ... . I'm an official MIT freshman now, a proud member of the Class of 2011 ... simply happens to attend one of the craziest universities in the world. I'm

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  summer, but then I got the ambulance job up here so I'm staying in Boston ... point, any summer job will do, but I'm not sure if I want to be a camp ... smell - on my floor, it's poo! I miss Senior Haus, yo.) I'm an RA for 12

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  waste. Pictures of NASA Ames: (I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to post these ... just soaked in the wifi and the sun. As of today, I'm

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  thought that was exciting, though I’m sure Mitra could speak at greater ... Engineering Honors Society. My favorite line of the event was when the M ... cancer. Sorry that this was all sort of random, but I’m trying to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  : "Hi, I'm Milena." Other person: "My name is ____. I actually know who ... swimming in root beer. (Before you go ahead and think I'm gross ... hours during CPW), but I'm glad I stayed up as long as I could. I did

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  . (More about what I'm doing with Chemistry will come over the next few ... tours of some labs. As I'm a nerd for everything neuroscience, can you understand why I'm really excited for the next three years? Speaking of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  . But someone from NextExec should raise hell about this." Now, I'm not ... someone who likes to enjoy a hot shower every morning, I'm almost definitely ... ; your dream school most certainly isn't going to be flawless. I'm here to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  I'm finally recovered from the Mystery Hunt... here's the "official ... to Michael Fauntleroy Stopheles (M.F. Stopheles, for short) for a mere ... get a chance to take part in next year's Hunt. I'm hopeful that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  time awesome to think that I'm actually growing up and doing my own ... you need some context about me and my history. I'm from "Suburbia ... people. And a word for the parents: I know that you get worried. I'm 21

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I'm ... .) Since I just tried to rewrite this story and did so poorly, I'm ... home tomorrow and it'll all be fine." And I'm like, "NO! You don

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... Denver meeting, I was asked by students, "I'm interested in computer ... get excited about. Currently, I'm in a cafe in "Old Town" Las Vegas, New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  time, I'm not taking any Course 2 classes, except I guess Thermodynamics ... .110) and Mechanical Engineering (2.772) class. I'm hoping to have time ... . So here's what I'm taking so far: BE.110: Thermodynamics of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  colors." Gwyneth Paltrow, I'm looking in your direction. Well, I don ... shiny white Elvis suit. I'm thinking this should be a challenge on next

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  practical to work at the NIH since I'm also studying for the MCATs and I have far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... ,275, calculated at $9 per hour. This is more than I'm getting paid at the NIH. But

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  week. Whenever I'm at a spot with any kind of cascading water (which is ... are smarter than me. So I'm sure some of you know the answer to this ... about it. I'm also open to reccomended reading (titles, topics, authors

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  inconvinient, how do you think? A MacGregor room is eight feet by fifteen feet. I'm ... 't actually know, because I'm never on the internet off campus. :) 2. Christina ... that I really, really, really want to take, and I'm ok with two others

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  international buffet. Now, I'm not sure how I break down percentage-wise, but I'm ... walls and a ceiling (I'm not sure if the Stata Center could be explained

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  ), so I'm not going tomorrow. Which means that 7.27 (human disease) and 9 ... 'll ever attend. I am trying really hard to scrounge up some sad, much as I'm ... that's all I'm going to say about that. Just three final exams between

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... requirement. I'm having trouble describing it so I'll just copy straight from ... know of at MIT, at least for undergrads (I'm not sure if there's any on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006