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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the ... whole other blog) and if this course is to be believed, the Germans spend a perhaps disturbing amount of time talking about what the women and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  for "Crew of the Week" and you can all help our crew team be recognized by going here and voting on the right hand side. This site is a little ... where a lot of people sit in a very small skinny rowboat and row super

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able ... mortar to hold together. And of course the machine should be fast and cheap and easy to use and produce strong, perfect bricks. My group is

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  winter sunlight and illegal traffic maneuvers spilling habitually onto the ... walked by, witnessed my torpedoing burst of undiluted energy, and crossed ... Wii with your hard-earned cash and then taking the Wii and eating it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  Allen, eating some great food and hanging out in the Valley. I had cabrito for the ... at one of the local high schools. She's starting her second year, and ... . My hotel was right next to a Tony Roma's (great ribs!) and Logan

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also ... blogger alum Mitra '07 took 21W.755: Writing and Reading Short Stories with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... currently running kernel source and the configuration settings, combined with ... 's what Ted says in ZDNet's article: Top kernel developer and Linux

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

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... friend’s at (and soon to be at) MIT who I already miss. Since this ... vector, time is a scalar, so I caught the shuttle and arrived on campus

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... people pictured (I'll only publish first names), and any reactions to the ... based If you are an international student and 21 has not yet opened in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final ... rooms are filled with piles of psets. AND, here’s what I think is ... -3 week period in the Easter term (there are 3 terms: Michaelmas, Lent, and

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  submitted both their Part 1 and their Part 2. Thank you for not ... 'd like it to. We're reading for content, and we're used to seeing the ... tracking system. We are opening a lot of mail right now, and it takes

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

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... November. The ball was titled "As Time Goes By" and the theme was Casablanca ... . The odds are good... Here are Cathie and Kavita, who focused on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours ... expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... the CPW Closing on Saturday was me and Samuel L. Jackson reciting lines

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  removed, and it doesn't imply anything about individual decisions. Now that ... and try not to stress - there's nothing left to do but wait, and if all goes well, you'll know in 2 weeks and 53 minutes. :-) [Edit: to respond

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then ... 's Edge") and the Killian Pyramids. See if you can spot what changed ... Waldo Hacks. Now imagine, you were in lecture: And you looked up

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... there, watch some kids and can't do all the cool stuff... Being a ... background of some of the pictures I posted) and the waterpark are jointly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  had to laugh out loud when the presenter hit the button and put the live ... half a squirrel (and not the pretty half, let me tell you). ~300 people ... stuff like this. Zack and RJ (both MIT '09) have completely transformed

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  with built in Dolby Digital) and watch the latest pay-per-view selection ... immediately began watching (and Tivoing) movies. What a treat! Here were all the movies that I love and some that I always swear to rent next time I'm at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  divided the lecture hall in half and told us it was time for audience participation. My half made saxaphone noises, and the right half made some pretty ... the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and is majoring in Course

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  - 6 graduate and undergraduate students. She very much hopes that you ... , and then walk over together to the Forbes Cafe at Stata. I do hope that ... stand in long lines in the Stata Center, and have lunch with students give

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005