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• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... , and kept the rain off of me pretty well, although the ravages of time ... , because I got the umbrella three years ago at MIT when Shannon '05 lost my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  . We've spent the last year thinking about you, getting to know you ... admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super-qualified applicants, because we truly believe in you. And, in the process, we grew very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  night I completed the machine tools class, which means I finished making ... = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of the FSAE car. So far for FSAE I've made minor contributions to the frame

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of 2010, I'd like to take an opportunity to thank the many awesome faculty ... professors assist in choosing the class. In previous years, these faculty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  My room's dark, it's late Monday night, and the January respite from ... cleaning, but at least the laundry's done. I had a good experience with French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song "I Should Be Allowed To Think" by They Might Be Giants begins with the lyrics, "I saw the best minds ... Cloves and a Chicken. Basically you sear the chicken, cover it in oil, toss

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in ... the design project seriously, and thought that it'd be just plugging ... , and needless to sasy the project wasn't all about typesetting some

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week ... Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... spring, I took 5.12 (Organic Chemistry I). The night before the exam, I

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of my favorite things about the MIT schedule -- we have approximately one ... /25 (Thanksgiving). The calendar, I think, reflects the fact that MIT students really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  friend of a friend of Sam's Mom Because I am a fool, I also bought the wrong tickets for the Chinatown bus, which we need to have changed mere moments before our departure. That should be stress-free. The moral of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  Ocho, in Miami's Little Havana. The Cuban sampler at Versailles ... the opportunity to meet and dine with the Tampa Bay-area Educational Counselors (ECs) before the Central Meeting. The Tampa ECs and I dining at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ... to Dorchester before, not even for bowling, I decided to enjoy the great weather and explore for a couple minutes. By the way, it's sunny

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  science?" The Registrar's office says that 460 students do not have their ... Science] (or 6.3, not sure yet), and Musical Theater. The question is, is ... -HASS Course are among the most logistically easy to complete, since every MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this ... just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox' big comeback victory against the Yankees in the American League ... party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very ... comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of ... on some of the classic American Thanksgiving dishes–turkey, mashed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... years of this and I'm gonna run the w-OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING THINGS ... even read the first chapter of each textbook. Bring it, junior year

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  , Technology and Memoir). The main takeaway, which I am going to play with here, was that our memories can be more accessible when we write around the objects attached to them. Here are the things on and around my desk and also

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a ... collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the ... meet people outside of the bubble I was in.  Any fears I might have had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring ... year"]haven’t played the game yet[/annotation], Ultrahand is one of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023