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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  inheritance research on peas, and then asked the class why Thomas Hunt Morgan ... professors wrote a paper on the history of light bulb jokes, and how their ... picture 2 to picture 3, all in 5 minutes of anthropological discussion :P

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  myself five minutes of gnome game as a little treat. I keep introducing my ... ![/caption] Happy birthday Cyan! And reader, if you choose to take on the mantle of ... !!! (map details; strategies) Any player of the game will quickly pick up on

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said ... community that fits you. For this post on East Campus pros and cons, I asked ... K. ‘19, based on an informal survey. (Note from Maya: "This was a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry ... plenty of time in the afternoons and on the weekends to explore as much of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Caltech, Bring IT on Just some harmless rivalry...

  

  From the Caltech homepage: Caltech Pranked by MIT Today MIT pulled one over on Caltech today. MIT students stole a 130-year-old, 1.7-ton cannon that has been on the Caltech campus since 1972. It now sits in a

  • by Bryan
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  the show on the 2.009 webpage, a class where Barry was the TA. Side ... Archimedes Death Ray myth. For more on that, you can look here, or if you're not doing anything Wednesday night, you can watch the episode on the

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow. We'll see how close I stay on that contract. More updates coming soon as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  impact on anybody's decision. I was reading the admissions site years ago ... application about 5 minutes after it hit the internet. Four hours later I ... minutes prior to the official release time (9 AM) so I hopped online and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  out on the dock enjoying 12 minutes of sunshine and eating fluffernutter ... This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can ... 's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  it's half-hidden under a thin layer of it. Stupid: when rain falls on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite ... surplus of amateurs on the road. People, really - it's not that hard. Read ... . People already on the Infinite have the right-of-way, so you must imagine

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On my way…

  

  Turns out that Anthony isn’t the only one who loves Amtrak. I called them yesterday and their very friendly customer service people helped me change my reservations because I found…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my ... happening after the bombing too. What was going on? Text messages flooded my phone. Facebook blew up with updates on the status of the events. Police

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  Just a quick post here - I'm actually on the road right now, doing some recruitment travel through Southern Texas! Thought I'd do some "live ... Brownsville Museum of Fine Art for tonight's presentation! On the run again...

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  each other instead of simply strategizing on how best to stay on top. He

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  This past Thursday on my birthday my floor BMF organized that week ... which here means “falling asleep with my laptop open.”) I got in on Pi ... , my family and friends, working hard on something I care about

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  accepted to MIT. Jenna's essay on the bus driver was one of many things that ... find "the formula." I don't think "oh, that girl got a 1600 on the SAT" or "that guy had perfect triple 800's on the SAT2's." I can't remember

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until ... because I was in lab until 7 tonight -- yes, on a Friday night -- and that ... commonly) are free to put as much or as little money as desired on the card

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe ... winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... elaborate on the many wonderful aspects of this Institute, namely its

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  , working on personal projects, or just chillaxing), and here’s what I’ve been ... taking the class - it'll give you universal shop access to many shops on ... like to put a nerdy spin on things. During a lesson on food and water

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014