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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live ... in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more frugal. Just playin'. But seriously, maybe it's because I only get to eat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  on campus, with almost four hundred easy-going people who like to hang ... , solar rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows, a bright dining hall, and a ... you! I chose to live in Next my freshman year because I wanted to be in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  'm always happy to answer your questions. I'll demonstrate this by answering a ... are made to fit together, not built as a single entity. So you can ... not all dorms are limited to singles and doubles. In Baker, there are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  earth. From little victories to large setbacks, everybody's gone through something. As we move onto 2016, I like to think about what in my own life the ... ? by Ana V. '15 May 2015 A Hard MIT Class by Vincent A. '17 How to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  Sudan, etc. While reading an article, I happened to sit up straight, so that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I ... :26pm: four minutes before the rover was due to land. Whoops. Good call

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway ... someone gave me the opportunity to find out, would I? I'm thinking if I ... the world to ease the pressure of having to choose a direction for "my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... -9-9-9." Went to sleep at 9:30 every night because staying up past 10:00 was a ... road trip back to school because all the roads were clogged from Chinese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write ... about her career as an astronomer. Other contributors to the book include ... Beauty and the Geek. The concept of the show is to take eight geeky guys

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  programming, game theory. My comments: The description sounded fun. I want to ... strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design ... high-level vision. Upon completion, students should be able to understand

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  additional lift to keep the behemoth and its 400-ton payload aloft while ... prototype and expects to have one completed by 2010. Pasternak says several ... as luxury staterooms, restaurants, even a casino. To minimize noise

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  scheduled entry.... One of the things I like about being home is getting to ... knit sweaters--when I'm at MIT, I have been known to take bathroom breaks ... Melinda Gates doesn't seem to be so thrilled about it. Look at that scowl. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  (Course 15) and Mathematics with Computer Science (Course 18C), showed up to ... at her and possibly send her to MIT Medical. Anna has every music lover ... Department and Comparative Media Studies, she is helping to lay the foundation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we ... think that at other schools, maybe athletes don't have to do silly things ... sore and threw my neck out of whack trying to do this (as the one on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  [note: As of August 2006, this entry is out of date in regard to testing requirements. For the most up-to-date information, please view the MIT Admissions home page] All []s represents edits to this entry made on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote ... the panel from the College Board disagreed. "He told me I was jumping to ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  minno.' I'll leave you guys to figure out what that means ; )" The inscription translation is now an open question to be answered by you, as is the ... . Also, earlier today as I was walking from my office to the subway, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  ...hello to David '09, Greg '09, Alex '09, Rachel '09, Libby '09, Jackie '09 ... it was an official event and we weren't allowed to use the moat around ... Campus" in the picture below. I also managed to stab myself in the hand

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  ) sent out an email with a link to a retweet by @cmsw_mit of a tweet by @MITListCenter of a link to an article on SPECTRVM which linked to Stephen ... media, on giving laptop computers to the poorest children in the most

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  . Every year, MIT brings to campus a national act to headline a big concert ... the band's most popular song (according to iTunes) and my favorite song ... ("White Rabbit" / "Somebody to Love") 1969: Janis Joplin ("Piece of My Heart

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  more questions, here is a quick FAQ to provide some more answers. I hope it is helpful to you. Q. Do you prefer the SAT or the ACT? A. We ... /M). Q. I am an international student, do I have to take the TOEFL? A. No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007