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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks ... . But seriously, guys, everything's really up in the air right now. I ... found me my summer internship in Germany last summer. It's kind of too

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  Earlier this week, I attended an event in Washington DC where I got ... consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to ... little like falling in love: one trip to the campus and they "just knew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  most people are quick to say that they're just fine. In fact, if there's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a ... precisely what one should never do in situations like these and ignored it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  , the answer is inevitably “In lab.” My class schedule serves to justify ... systems are actually all around you (and even in you! For example, your ... the concepts presented in lecture. Incidentally, Laura is also taking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play ... vision-based autonomous robotics class/competition that is in its seventh

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  preparing in the summer hols. I am doing AP Calculus BC and AP Physics C ... classes. Keep in mind that this is only current for the Class of '10, so the ... Daniel mentioned, a lot of majors knock off a couple of requirements in one

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case ... collaborate. Now, at the new Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., he's trying to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... 'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who works as a director for a rather large freight railroad in the West. It ... -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  . Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... they took anyone's picture and name and stuck it in seamlessly. (The ... the ridiculous amounts of free food I got this week. In that particular

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  Zelda. In the end, about the coolest thing we saw in Bonn was Beethoven ... reenactor like that one episode of Amazing Race 4 in Vienna. I took this ... behind Germany time anyway. But Germany was in the semifinals on July 4th

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of ... want a small fridge in your room. Hold off on getting this until you find ... your permanent room assignment. If you aren't staying in an air

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... generally disdain the reporting about MIT in the Boston Globe, I did like the turn of phrase used in an article last winter -- that MIT undergrads are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to recieve a reply, is that because I sent it in so quickly?" Harlan '10, I am ... student as a student who has enrolled in but has not completed an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  thing to note might be the trend in female applicants over the years ... "convenient" that the amount of self-selectivity in the female applicant pool directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... exhibition explores major figures in twentieth-century Europe, from late ... German artist Max Beckman (1884-1950). He generally makes his prints in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  hacking is exploring the hidden ins and outs of computer systems and networks. Michael said: "Hacking per se doesn't get you in trouble -- being ... policy is that all hacks, even if not in illegal areas, are unauthorized

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning ... of shaping new developments in the world's train networks were starting

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... will count.... And speaking of AP scores...those are also posted in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005