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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  would cost me around $500, and I was on a student budget. But what if I ... start on the construction after finals week, for fear of not getting ... could find on the Internet. The (not quite) final design is above

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  people on campus rely on. This really has the potential to revolutionize ... filesystem, which is one of the major filesystems used on Linux today. Here

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what ... back to my dorm and begin my 18.03 pset. I have no idea what's going on ... Thursday though because . . . On Thursday I have a 9 AM recitation and then

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  While You Wait… ...why not play Brawl?

  

  ), photographer-extraordinaire Eric Schmiedl '09 was on the scene as usual and has ... ? Mario greets those entering the Infinite Corridor. I can has banana! On ... taking a break from my p-set later on...until then, you can find me solving

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  you haven't yet done so, you must click the "Submit" button on your EA ... mailed materials (e.g. recommendations, etc.) time to show up on the ... deadline. We'll post EA admissions decisions on an announced day in December

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  , won tickets and took my camera along for the trip. On the night of ... lecture halls. On this particular day, there was a musical performance before the movie. Every year, The Chorallaries put on a performance

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  student) and I actually bought these on separate occasions, and I think I ... sit together on my mom's desk at work. Obviously it proves that her ... comical statements. Aren't you thrilled?) I had actually planned on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  elective on sensation and perception (9.35), and a class on what functional ... a common misconception that I remember coming up pretty often on the "not admitted" thread on Ben's blog, this school is not a bastion of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  finish line wins as usual. More on that in my next entry. I promised last entry to comment on academics at Cambridge versus MIT. Note that my ... in an equation, and you have to be on your toes. Something I like

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  coursework at MIT (maybe it's not, I don't know, I'm running on empty here ... but it depends on how shameless I am that day. Most likely, I will ... , say so, if you like it, say so. Also, input on what classes you'd like

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  out free cookies on the first day of classes every term. That was all I ... for some reason there is no Project Runway category on MITblogs. So ... fine print on this offer reads "Students will be responsible for travel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times ... seen before, like limpid and munificent. -I still did fine on the GREs ... !" Catch you on the flip side of a p-set and 6.003 test!

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  advice on topics like How to Set Up a Friend as a Favor How to Set Up Two ... can take out an MIT faculty member to a nice dinner out on the town ... out into other schools for this dinner. On my short list at the moment

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  OMG there aren't enough blanks on my application to talk about the 20 ... . Person A got XXX on my SATs, and Person B got YYY on their SATs. YYY >

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The ... , Mitra! I went on the flying trapeze last year but this year I was just too ... course, I wore my MIT hat everywhere. On just our second night there, when

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  site to learn more about him. My favortite page is the one on which he ... to change the world. That part was just icing on the cake. As he explains on the kids' page: "Think about most of the bad things that have

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  Apparently opening up the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue was only ... on her shoes. The voice feedback ("Your average pace is..."") is ... on a Likert scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is least awesome and 5 is most

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below, I put on my rings, along with those of my friends, Anna, Shaye, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  On Monday, I went to an afternoon tea sponsored by Course 21L ... : Chemical Engineering), who is at MIT on the Cambridge-MIT Undergraduate ... , is reproduced as a high-quality wall-sized print and displayed on the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  on. Right: Mari and Gisele watch the serenade. Also related to Valentine's Day: did you know that those little candy hearts with sayings on ... finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006