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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook ... and sent them to Matt McGann. You know, the usual: a cappella concerts ... the same. Matt's a big deal so he didn't respond immediately. I am very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  -type-thing in the middle of the dorm. (As you can see, BC is basically a string of ... '07 all came by to ask for my signature on their nomination forms. (They ... freshman about BC government and the election process!" Which is a great idea

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  lab requirement for Course X. It's taught in the sub-basement of ... love about MIT lab classes is the free lab goggles. Today we had a choice ... , the professors themselves, or both. The office hours for 10.302 are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  coming to MIT for a day and wanted to see how our research on the thermal ... is the floor plan for the Stata Center... ...I was a little stressed ... If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  Christmas shopping instead of studying for the final. This is a good ... linear time anyway. Apparently, neither do the Aztecs. Wow, this is a really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Thursday

  

  Date) 6:30-9:00 -- "Three tongues of the Muse" -- A tricultural poetry night with dinner, live music, and dance The event will include: -A full dinner featuring Greek, Persian, and French Cuisine -Poetry readings in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone ... . Running along the Charles River. Yesterday I did a 13-mile round-trip run from my house to my office, and although the Rhein river is a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  the former second-best Goldeneye player in the world if it weren't for a ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  Splashes for so long and being the founder of Splash!, MIT ESP sends a couple ... MIT would decrease like pigeons in the park. We talked a lot about the vision of iHouse and the events that we have planned for the coming

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  my world record low test score with a 40% on the third 6.002 exam. Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I ... jerk. Miraculously, it didn't even bleed one drop for the rest of the day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously ... taken over the ages. The class times are a little strange (Wed 3:30 - 5 pm ... fun. Midway through each presentation, we gave the girls a building task

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  . This is the best recipe for soup I have ever tasted in my short life ... to the onion mixture. And then I served it with a little sour cream on ... pset, woke up for no reason at 6 AM, and finished the rest of it in under

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  (which was her room when I was a frosh). The room should have not only been ... , in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her ... th East alum who just moved to California and was back in town for the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  wide selection of phones with the purchase of a one-year contract for a ... entirely because of the area code difference. This wasn't a huge issue for me ... calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden ... 's easy to blame him for anything involving nudity. The driver of the car I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  wild game or poach a cow from a nearby farm. (Actually, I think the only ... . (Seriously, Adam and I cook for ourselves all the time. But we're both busy and ... , and I have to write a paper for 21A.260 and a pset for 5.60. And lead a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  a poem. I was especially proud of us for the rhyme "three eight four ... devised a new cheer that we want to do with the crowd and cheerleaders. We ... fifth one was breaking out a laptop for verification as we spoke. Now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  announce each session either the day of or the day before, and have a sign ... 'll let you know how it all went a bit later tonight. UPDATE: The exam... uh, I could have studied a little more for that dirty little puppy, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  spring for nearly half a century, the residents of MIT's Senior Haus dormitory throw a big party; dorm alumni from decades past return for the ... for a strike. The ~700 professors at the faculty meeting voted (again

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What Am I Forgetting? A helpful guide.

  

  I'm leaving for Boston tomorrow this morning. As most of my friends and family could tell you, I'm just a little bit frazzled when packing ... friend Waseem '07 introduced me to this little site he made, which has

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 25, 2009