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• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Institute for Basic Research, which is run out of a PO Box in Florida. The new ... for getting to and from class a little more expeditiously--as the ... quiz. That's pretty uncommon for MIT as a whole, but I've had a few

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  (the secret twentieth character for sword really does look a little like ... : "Strangers With Candy", Season 1 Shana: A Mighty Wind Allison's Dad: The Sound of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the ... This post has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now, like

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  for crew (I was on lightweight crew as a freshman). Not really the most ... varsity sport (if only for a year). Been in APO and the Assassins' Guild ... Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  for a volunteer. Announce that the game will involve the two of you ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... forthcoming?), and then headed over to the Colonial Park Diner for some late

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  dorms, the location of East Campus was a big draw for me. It seemed more ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... causal relationship with a dorm's culture. Let me explain... Take the East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  , a large, 90-ish member free-for-all choir, and the Chamber Chorus, a ... opportunity of performing a work specifically commissioned for the group ... the song where I was singing "one plus one minus one plus..." for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  -shirts to the crowd. It was a great game -- the last one I'll ever cheer for as an MIT cheerleader -- and I think I won't have a voice in the ... out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  carcasses into a usable fuel. On the other hand, sometimes GIRs are there for ... credit for 8.01. Nobody knows why you need a 5 on the E&M portion of ... the first oncogene. A 5 on AP Bio gets you credit for it, and there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  , and reserves a lecture for the economics of prostitution. The story is ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Brahms & Tomorrowland (2015)

  

  library for the day, I'd kneel beside the box, a little hunched over from ... truly love the piano. A great deal of credit for this goes to my piano ... me of what's at stake. For a waltz: Imagine the girls and their

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  chromatograms at the drop of a hat. There will come a time when there are just no ... 's why Wikipedia was invented. I think Wikipedia is the ideal task for ... appropriated by Argentinian dissidents in the 1980's). From there I found a list

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  the ROTC program - for many students, this is a great way to make MIT ... because they simply couldn't afford a four-year college (apparently the ... contributions for their families). How can a student of extremely limited

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  Alright, here goes.   I’m a Burton Third Bomber. For the ... ="aligncenter" width="525"] a Bomber Formal pic as blurry as the night probably was for ... last year decided to make a huge project out of it for DTYD L. The end

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  only had a ridiculous amount of fun, but also left the City feeling ... wined and dined and stayed in a fancy hotel, the beauty of the whole event ... clothing tips. Admittedly, I wasn’t a Glamour reader before the competition

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... weekend in Foxboro. Well, I guess they're a little more dedicated to the ... cambridge." "The Landau building is in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours ... televsion. The best present I got for my birthday was a mellophone. Well ... Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days. I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six ... statement of purpose for grad school, or a practice GRE essay, or one of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  all your stuff and move to a different dorm. The day after REX ends ... . This poster commemorates the time he hooked a working laser up to his glasses, the time he blacksmithed a samurai katana that can split hairs, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005