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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... did face was while waiting to fill up our tank at a NY rest stop for a ... those on the left, so a clever minivan driver decided to turn around and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  to right, we have Yahli '07 (Course 15: Management and Course 18 ... On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... Mechanics (Physics) lecture with Sam '07 freshman year, and in which I heard

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  keep me un-hungry and ready to exercise until I have a chance to eat a ... immediately lent me her caution cape to wear as a cool accessory. (Thanks ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog ... Connecticut with Mitra to see Abyssinia, an inspiring musical written by a ... , later this week I am heading to the Ig Nobel Awards and to a five

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

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... these blog entries. I did, perhaps mistakenly, refer to Dr. Hamel as a ... summarily delete it. Not so. One hour later, Shyam '07 came up to me in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  away just a year ago, and now it’s closer than I would like it to be ... catch up to it and I’ll have to get a new one. Maybe by then I will be ... everything that I could. I want to be a competent electrical engineer. I want

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy ... -- all course 9 majors are required to take 9.07, which is a statistics ... Olympic team, and he gossips about them to me). D-Entry is having a "Bacon

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Indra Nooyi presentation A presentation from Indra Nooyi, President & Chief Financial Officer for PepsiCo.

  

  This afternoon I went to a talk on Diversity in Action by Indra Nooyi. She spoke at Sloan (MIT's school of management) as part of a series that will host the following speakers later this semester:

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of ... because I didn't go to CPW or do any pre-orientation programs (let that be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  (in sunny weather, it takes a couple of days) and then they're ready to ... Use sand to seal the edges and let it carbonize for a while. Fast forward to the next step: Put the carbonized material in a plastic bag

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  . Don't forget, Mitra! I solemnly swear to starr writing entries MIT again ... problem sets or 6.002 labs or running 20 miles or buying 843 dollars worth ... after Professor Merritt Roe Smith very nearly demonstrated a bone saw on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  professors have created a software tool to model interplanetary supply chains ... ://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=6275565 3/26/07: An MIT doctoral student studies how addicted people are to ... ://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2007/03/26/his_mind_is_on_the_eighth_dimension/ 3/23/07: MIT Wants To

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  Costco is officially out of hamburgers, UPS is making 5 trips a day to drop off lights, glowsticks, and popcorn machines, the grass is growing, and the sun is shining. MIT is getting ready for CPW as fast as it

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? America's fastest competitive eater is Sonya Thomas, a ... . Although the process has never been specifically used to destroy prions, Jefferson Tester, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, says he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  people to come just by buying a bunch of these cannoli and advertising them ... going to buy some at a drug store, but I hear those are quite expensive ... analyze for my UROP at home and I also need to buy a train ticket for 6

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  ready. Kendall '07, Gemma '06 and Erica '07 were giving Levi '06 what I ... asleep on a kitchen table and woke up to find my entire body wrapped in ... either. Darn. I'll try to have a more detailed entry up tomorrow featuring

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  ready to vie for the number one spot. Next Tuesday's lessons will be about ... my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since ... . (... but I still went to it!) As a preventative measure, I purchased a medium ... 'm ready to sleep for the next 12 hours. Except I have 14.05 lecture again at

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero ... like she's going to cough up a kidney or something every time I see her ... decided to take a few hours of desk service to lighten Erica's load. During

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to MIT - it's been a crazy few weeks, but I'm finally settled in and ready ... silence :-) Plan: Buy a radio transmitter (range ~ 30 ft) and put it on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007