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• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  rollerbladed to the train station. (Incidentally, rollerblades and trains are not ... looked down at my rollerblades. “Not with those you can’t.” I pulled off my ... world where I’m not absorbed in every hour of the day; I’m glad that come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  ? Pull yourself out from under that rock. I'm not talking about that silly ... students are not required to join the campus meal plan (although don't worry ... .50, you can get a more-than-filling lunch with not-quite-all the fixin

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  s or something. It may not be abundantly clear, but the fall foliage ... people would spend too much time on their computers and not enough time ... still won. (Also taken by Sam) That evening, several of the guys (not me

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  misleading with my title. They're not 3D glasses. They do, however, allow you to refract certain types of light to get not one rainbow - or even ... practical substance.) It's not just a chemistry thing, either. The physics

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making them. Decide we must ... instead! last but not least of the freshman bloggers, we have Emad Taliep ... stood. That'll show my mom not to call my drumming a nuisance

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad ... . Do NOT forget your camera! I think I came home from CPW last year with close to 200 pictures, and I would have taken more, were it not for the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  of 'school-sponsored activity' - not nearly as catch-phrase-y and often ... . It's true that boys can't live here, but the cleanliness is not due to ... accurately demonstrates the size of our room, it does not provide a faithful

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  . ****Katelyn Gao = my former roommate, not an acronym. In the past week, I ... cooling on the rack. The loaf was tastier this time but still not French ... not, because I just made this up and I think it sounds copyrightable

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  and kick Eva Mendes in the head (not in person, sadly), run on Memorial ... the middle of the rain-swollen night. It's kool not to have skool, yo ... envy. The view, however, is not intended for the weak of stomach, or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  . Pause. Repeat: I got a 52.5 out of 60, not 100. Which, most likely, was an ... 's not whether you get in or not that truly matters; the important thing is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  week. It was not uncommon that year to meet someone who would say, "I don ... feet on the ice. Now hockey may not seem that foreign to many of you ... snow skiing, I admit) but not hockey. But that has all changed. The

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  moves that we will be doing. The choreography does not necessarily ... because I was one of the only ones there taking video and not still photos ... overlayed the MP3, it was completely silent there for anybody not a ghost

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  :00 a.m. EST- Sabar Drumming Class Before you graduate, the Institute not ... listening to Sabar drum music. Today we got to actually play them: not ... taught me how to magnify images like that at the booth. (not really) I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  , residence based advising or regular, not to mention Experimental Study Group ... always gave good answers. I would not be the person I am today if not for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... bike in (not that any weather really stops me from riding my bike. Though ... amounts of bread or not. tEp is one of my favorite places ever but I've been

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  acceptance letter is, incidentally, not congratulations. It's actually ... . Unfortunately, it's simply just not cost effective to send over a thousand tubes ... . ;-) 34. Continuing the mailing trend, why not start thinking of creative

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not ... bio. Not only that, but I decided to write a survey. It would be mind ... followed by red Favorite fabric softener: Bounce (not to be confused with the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  bed in a case that smells like mildew. Luckily for fashion, not everyone ... harness energy than by sporting an excellent outfit? Parkes is not the only ... guess technology has not yet entered the world of reality television and

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... here, remember that even if organic chemistry can be fun, it's not always ... visualizing. So why do I like it so much, even when I'm not very good at it? I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  meetings. Not complaining, just want to get the facts straight so that we can ... House. Worried about whether or not Junior will be employable with an MIT degree? Fear not after attending this. 10:30am-1:00pm MIT Medical

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007