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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  , here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in ... : Savion Glover: Solo in Time (live at the Boston Opera House) I also got a chance to take a seminar during the last week of IAP in which we discussed

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  first snow day I have had in years. The view from my window Back home in Colorado, snow days are few and far between. It usually takes about ... stick around more (case in point: I had never seen snow turn black), but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in ... another friend 2 while friend 1 was in a meeting 7:15 pm – took the bus to ... activity 9:54 pm – went to a Salsa Night at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in ... , or hold a big meeting in every city. And not every student interested in MIT has the opportunity to come to campus, hang out with students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  D '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this ... Nobel Prize in Economics (more have won for Medicine, Physics, and ... didn't happen in a fancy board room or anything -- they held it in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young ... commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... bike which only takes him about 8 minutes (if there is no traffic). In

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  !!! I like to call this one “Cyd in 3-D” So without further ado, I will ... what I’m called as long as it’s in some way related to me. This is ... ’ve grown to appreciate the warmth even more since I’ve been in Boston. The

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  7 countries in Europe :p) but I know there might still be awesome pics ... exciting picture of what you're doing this summer! You don't have to be in it ... yourself/what's in the picture/your favorite haiku that doesn't end in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a ... on a river, falling leaves, the mass of flowers in spring. gravity is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... computing in the Media Lab, and miscellaneous cool stuff in the Precision ... interesting things, and is interested in the future. MIT attracts amazing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of ... : the first intercollegiate Indian classical dance competition in the ... , MIT Natya put on a show called Laasya, which means 'dance' in Sanskrit

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  sped from lower Manhattan to the Bronx, they fell in love: (Boy) It was in no sheltered nook It was by no babbling brook When romantic'lly we met. (Girl) Ah, the scene I can't forget We were thrown together in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  . Every student in the MyMIT database is assigned an alumni interviewer, aka Educational Counselor (EC). The interview itself is usually conducted in your home town – or someplace close – in an informal setting like a coffee

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  around campus in her epic Machine Shops entry. But she missed my place ... week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to ... make sure everyone working in the shop knows what they're doing, uses the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  students here absolutely LOVE music. While 75% of students participated in the fine & performing arts in high school, over 60% of accepted freshmen last year participated in music related activities before they

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day ... incompetent. # Sign-ins should not be seen by the general public. Sign-ins exhibit one's pride in having found a location. Most hackers aren't proud of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... changes that have changed my life recently: 1.I declared a major in Physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  dwindling battlefield of questions about giant disembodied vectors in space ... humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to read the previous paragraph, in which I describe my 8.022 exam in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  all the lost sleep in the last 3 months. After obsessively refreshing ... to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... playing in the background had turned into five simple letters and a two

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The ... .09 in the afternoon, then 8.07 all night and in the morning. I answered my mom's birthday phone call in the Hayden Library staircase. And then

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008