Blog
/ Miscellaneous
Appetizer Prelude to an entry
Real entry to come soon (within a week), this is just to get you ready/anxious.
Click here
Search
Search Results
-
-
Blog / Academics & Research
I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.
themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... Pass/No Record. And then I went to a party at my frat. Hey, want to come ... . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your -
Blog / Academics & Research
Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?
using parts of our class discussion as research for a follow-up to his ... optimization. It's a nice change to be reading and writing so much, but we ... a week (~20 people, discussion class) fun fact: Professor Lipkowitz -
Blog / MIT Life
Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.
to Coolidge Corner, buy his book, which I'd been meaning to pick up for ... had dressed in full zombie regalia as a tribute to "Army of Darkness ... Campbell is? Like, 50? And then what subset of those 50 want to get a book -
Blog / Announcements
Be a Blogger 2021!
colorful new new MIT welcome center will soon be ready for you to see! more ... plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool ... perspective, and the disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on -
Blog / MIT Life
Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!
Excel later, I've got a beautiful data report ready that my partner Nia '07 is printing out in dazzling color as you read this, and nary a good ... convince her to write a guest entry? No, that's not gonna happen. -
Blog / Events
Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.
ice cream -- no one's going to buy it if another stand is giving it out ... 't be able to do. The bales of hay outlined a picture of a clove ... horses (nope, whew) + MIT Send-off Here are a gazillion pictures from -
Blog / Athletics
Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…
to visit me and we went to see a semifinal match of the Legg Mason ... any guy won back-to-back US Open titles (Federer won last year, he's looking to win again) Ok, that's enough pretending that I know about tennis -
Blog / MIT Life
It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?
an accomplished songwriter. However, if you were to use a common ... to take a pirate-themed boating/camping trip to Bumpkin Island in the ... set off on a commuter boat (really!) from Boston Harbor to Hull. Here -
Blog / Athletics
XC is Sexy
'm going to mix it up a bit, and give people's living groups instead of ... I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old, and I figure if it's appropriate for him to wear it, it's okay for me to -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Visit to eBay
pay homage to the product that made it famous, eBay has a case full of ... . ------------------------------ Thanks to Tiffany for a great lunch and lovely tour of the eBay complex ... On Sunday, Phil (MIT '07), Irene (MIT '08), and I (MIT '07) got lunch -
Blog / MIT Life
This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!
way. And I was going to write a blog entry saying basically, "Anybody ... KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them actually made me wish that I had been born a size zero woman so I could rock -
Blog / MISTI
Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.
all ready to write an entry last night on how some cities in Germany are ... automotive industry. I wish I had a whole day to spend there listening to the ... , we had a mere four hours there, barely finding time to check out the -
Blog / Admissions
Real Snow! Real pictures this time.
event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a ... Despite what I said last time, I did manage to snap a couple of ... Floor Activities Fund. Basically, to promote dorm unity, if you bring a certain -
Blog / Academics & Research
Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…
later, I had a bunch of green bunnies and cell culture plates ready to ... tickets to the BSO through the college card program. They were doing an a ... . The concert featured professional soloists, and it's always a joy to -
Blog / MIT Life
Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.
that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... ), rather than buying a huge house or a penthouse apartment or taking lavish ... $60, and even a set of overlaying stickers, to convert a normal keyboard -
Blog / MIT Life
I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.
about ready to say, "Oh, not everyone, we're not that stereotypical ... misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had -
Blog / Admissions
Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.
year. If you plan to live here over the summer, I'd recommend buying a ... , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go ... go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining -
Blog / How to Human
Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.
little hard to understand, but I looked into this a lot when buying my ... This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell ... that when you come to MIT you'll be moving to a different area code and -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Saturday
getting ready to play (and sweep) the Coast Guard Academy in an afternoon ... stylish that Ben had to buy one. We saw some pretty awesome bands ... awesome folks at the East Campus dormitory built a giant hammock