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• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  So as a sanity break, I often take a break from work and such and ... that if I went to the laundromat one day and left my laundry there, the ... to an ASA activities midway and has scored a free shirt from WMBR

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... listening to The Wrens and eating a confetti cookie from Au Bon Pain. About 2 ... hang out and relax. I originally planned on driving back that night, but

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties ... have been my choice in shirt and tie combination. Basically, each ... mousse, flan, and chocolate-covered strawberries. So typically, we just

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  . The Student Loan Art Program allows MIT students (and only MIT students ... Andy Warhol Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a ... online collection (aside from these two and a few others) is only viewable

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it ... 't know what to do other than watch and hope. And I keep thinking "did this ... MIT, but to reiterate: we'll be as accommodating and flexible as possible

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  tell you that the Admit Letter is 10" x 13", and the defer and deny ... . We feel that the pressures to apply early are too high, and don't want ... admitted students who decide to enroll), have been quite large, and we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... been several things holding me back from that. The stacks and stacks ... I have responded to all of your comments and emails (this time, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration ... and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each to add

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... , puzzles, and board games, and even later i would discover that a couple other things that cj liked, like squares and writing, were also things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there ... computers, better ways to power those computers, and even new ways to save lives. And then there's me! I don't have any of those kinds of ideas, but

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  and (2) an analysis showing how MIT students felt about Washlava based ... to the laundry room and then there were no machines available, or I had forgotten something (tide pods, dryer sheets, quarters) and had to go back to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  , helpful, and hosing. This semester, 8.07 (Electricity and Magnetism II ... geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a ... Game in the middle of his lecture slides* and then inexplicably flings

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  architecture, elaborate artistic displays and blissfully warm beaches. The second ... ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a ... ticket for the Super Special Hotel Train, leaving Ling '07 and I stranded

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  WordPress"]only four[/annotation] contain equations typeset in [latex]\LaTeX[/latex]. And ... beautiful mathematical concepts, so Paige and Fatima have challenged us ... intuitively. I usually just kind of wave my hands and say, “Uhh, it’s like when

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  group of people—especially people I don't know. And if, on top of that, I ... saved in my phone with various truth and lie options, because I've been ... guard again"]come up with two truths and a lie,[/annotation] I'm gonna be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023