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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  , it was CPW and the weather was magnificent. But sometimes the most ... detail was the MIT Press Loading Dock Sale. And I lied - I KNEW it was ... ! Students, educators, and other segments of the MIT community crowded room

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available at: decisions.mit.edu You can log in using the same username and ... admission to MIT this year, the most in our history, and the first time the ... rich and varied backgrounds, perspectives, locations, and experiences

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Mary, and my status as the youngest child meant she knew my location at ... bloggership? Well, senior year happened. And that’s certainly not a good enough ... have ICE, and we’ve been hearing about it since we joined the department

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  . space. Just kidding, I was procrastinating and liked Lifehouse enough ... Shell And then there was You and Me.  It doesn't even really matter ... this past week, classes went over fine and we're on to the next one

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  downtime before school and college application season begins. I don’t know ... This is a quick read and I read it one day after complaining on facebook ... of my whining, because he shot back a link to this book title and said

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  about a week, and as far as I can tell the city hasn’t been transformed ... (during which time I slept, ate, ran, and got dog hair on just about everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  be a fun diversion for you as you wait. And for those who are not ... 's Today's Big Thing: And, of course, the Pi Song: And actually, if you ... an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First ... awesome) and the Rice-Baylor med program (which would prevent me from taking ... of you admits (and soon-to-be admits!) might be wondering if MIT is a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  7.013, 8.02, and 5.12. (My brain is still recovering from the trauma ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice ... , however, I ended up on the opposite side of Mass Ave from my building, and ... there's just unstructured tomfoolery occurring on MIT's campus. And today

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Odds ‘n Ends There's a video. And a SONG. Your lucky day.

  

  Well hey there, folks! Remember me? You know, that one weird kid blogger, the one who always makes you go "How'd she get hired?" I'M BACK! Yay! And I made a video for you guys. Double yay! And I pulled out

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  makes 3 current or emeritus faculty (Diamond, Robert Merton PhD '70, and Robert Solow) and 9 alumni (including Diamond and Merton) who have won the Nobel Prize in Economics (more have won for Medicine, Physics, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved. As luck should have it, "the day" came on July 7th of 2008, and now ... I, and I am him....." Yesterday, there was terrible traffic in the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own ... /cabinet/shelf (or whatever method of food storage you might use) and concoct a meat ... included chicken, tomatoes, onions, black beans and pasta. My variety of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with ... -midnight residential Cambridge and instead found a page of half-finished notes wrung from ... structure of space and time science is nothing but an extended frame of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 ... cart and vociferously spewed a sonic soup of bloodless terror and regret ... lemmings gleefully leaping to their deaths on YouTube. I shift forward and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  I'm up early. I'm up REALLY early, and it's not because I stayed up ... " and it's a wee bit difficult. Difficult in that since Friday morning at ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  I've got a pocket, got a pocketful of orgo I've got a pain and I know ... of orgo I've got a pain and I know that it's all mine, oh, oh oh oh Do ... pain and I know that it's all mine, oh, oh oh oh I keep rhyming but I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  As per usual, CPW has again come and again, all of the prefrosh will ... fire, run around campus at odd hours of the night, watch NextACT, and ... ago and we continued it last year (with some issues, but we'll fix those

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  flame wars and being used correctly, it's also a great way to let somebody ... me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about presenting ElectroPlushies at an upcoming MIT Science and Engineering Business

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009