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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they ... that the choice of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" was rather odd, even given

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  . Generally this fits the pattern of every trip I've ever taken - happy once I ... /28). In the middle of that I head down to Tampa for the NACAC Conference ... assumption, so we try to bring the feel of the campus to you. We use short

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  dinner, and then the ensuing food comas, and then the weeklong marathon of ... of friendship✨ and ✨the power of cook-for-yourself dorms✨! In fact, [annotation note="Burton-Conner, one of the aforementioned cook

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  puffy jacket will always remind me of certain backpacking trips in the ... never provide. Yesterday, instead of lining up at midnight for the Black ... hosted by the local Patagonia (you may have heard of their prominent anti

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... , occasionally venturing out into the streets of Boston to take some good snaps ... . Most of the time on this blog I just talk about me, but I'm just one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... trip. Anastassia and I got onto the topic of how we perceive money as ... same time. I committed to the class and last week was one of the most

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Imagination, Laura The Moment of Truth And a few numbers: we received a record number of applications this year, up 9% from last year. At the same time, due to an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out ... . The whole college application process is one of back-and-forth decisions ... what you hear from colleges in the next few weeks, you can and should use

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  missed the class last week because we were all THAT sick. And one of the ... of lectures! This is pretty bad, guys. They should just shut down the ... saw these two posters on the wall of a bathroom: (And then a girl

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big ... we were impatient to explore Quito's Old Town. Quito is the capital of ... 's first time traveling outside of the US, and he remarked that "this feels

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  organization of the entire audios lecture. Snively wrote about it a while back ... . LiveScribe isn't the first time you've seen or heard of one of his ... crazy things we do at school and lots of the execs came and sat with us at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  East side of the park, along 5th Avenue. The park is rectangle that is 0 ... On Tuesday after work, I saw The Producers -- not the movie, the show. Some friends from MIT, UC Berkeley, and NYU took care of waiting in line

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  pictures of the band too. These were taken at last Saturday's men's water ... AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I ... A-woo-hoo! Since the last entry was such a frickin' saga (tm Betsy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the ... ), in the middle of last semester (October or November, I believe ... stupidity. Especially if you're distracted by the thought of taking your first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  back. I assume that most of you have taken the SATs and that you studied ... challenging, it was just a matter of learning the tricks and being consistent. For all of you medical school hopefuls (yes, the admissions process

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the ... other similarly great pains of the human experience. Anyway, here comes the sentence you've all been waiting for: life is full of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor ... . I decided to share the wealth with my friends over the course of the ... The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials ... , environmentalist & filmmaker Jennifer Galvin of the Thoreau Foundation, and Bina ... Vimeo.     DSL posted a gallery of the event, including pre

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  It was sometime during Act III of finals study week, in the pressure ... -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of ... first final showed that everyone* interviewed found the answer by one of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that ... us think of "noise" as unwanted sound - in astronomy, it's the same ... 're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012