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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown ... how everyone's doing with class, friends, and their new lives away from

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  red and shiny, and it works, and I need one because I live as far away from campus as you can possibly get. She rode it over last night and ... sister, and I find my bike. I take the key out, stick it in the lock, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  Bash, and the fire truck hack. My favorite piece, though, is about the Orientation Activities Midway; I loved getting to talk to students and hear all ... ) [click on the image to watch ZigZag] If you like ZigZag and would like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming manages credit policies for incoming freshmen, and the ... page for up-to-date information on AP and transfer credit.] Remember

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... tennis bubble, Kresge, the Student Center, and more. Not to mention, a large chunk of Cambridge, and part of the Charles River, with the Museum

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  . But now, I look, and I notice that while they aren't completely up to date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups ... hacks at MIT, including Nightwork and other books and articles. Poll of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  , until the lady got tired with how incredibly stupid I was and started speaking English, I found the bus station and successfully negotiated the bus schedule, and I figured out how to eat. Anyway, I've figured out that you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... during finals and is finally getting better), four finals in three days ... ), my flight from Boston through Chicago and into Kentucky (Saturday

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will host a reception at ISEF in Indianapolis.

  

  Arts at MIT." And since we don't want to ruin your dinner, we'll just be ... located above the intersection of Washington and Illinois streets in ... and Circle Center Mall. It is linked by the indoor skywalk to the Hyatt

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You Heard It Here First Short Skirt, Long Jacket

  

  Slacks The Howl Adrian Emberley and the Ladykillers Michael Dylan and the ... . Another big concert coming in April will be Cake and unnamed opening act. Rumor has it that it will be matt pond PA. We'll just have to wait and see

  • by Bryan
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  , including the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament (HMMT), visiting other schools, and ... . And since I'll be sequestered with applications throughout the weekend (and hence won't be able to informally meet with folks otherwise or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  system and making a bathroom scale talk wirelessly to the system. Interested students should have some experience with both hardware and software ... add wireless capabilities and seamlessly integrate them into our system

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.

  

  witness to the ultimate showdown between Turkey and Spam. Despite a two ... fuel, of course, but Aunt Jen got to it first and made some stock instead ... The Engineers": An artist and an Engineer had found a gallon can. Said

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  year, both dorm and city-wide. ------------ The Annual Burton ... around 4:00pm and eating will commence. $500 in prize money will be ... cookies promised, and more candy than anyone cares to think about. Did I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so they're sold for drastically reduced prices. And the "damaged" books are ... parents and sister back home (this weekend was Family Weekend, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be ... ? And pure ethics? And nice manners? (1) Given their advantages, you may ... moments, then you'd never know you had one. (3) Time and time again I

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Tour Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand.

  

  We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man Goin' each and every place with ... Muhammad my man Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand Oaktown ... ; Bethesda, MD; Baltimore, MD; Fairfax, VA; Ann Arbor, MI (see photo) and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and ... .112 and 8.01 problem sets this week, working in huge, huge study groups ... year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  playing with (and for) other people. This dream took many forms when I got ... , and many of my friends played instruments in the orchestra and in ... " MIT offerings. Post what you play and what you're looking for. For

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  internship, so I shouldn't really be writing an entry, and I definitely can ... fan), but I can make random references to geography and pop culture. And ... , and down 24 to Berkeley. I had dinner in a lovely Italian restaurant

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005