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• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  bumped me out of the running. This year, however, I applied and after about a week of waiting the finalists were announced. With five times as ... one of the top twenty finalists! Before I make my pitch I'd like to

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off of linear algebra and eigenvalues for a little bit by blogging. And more importantly, and more to the point of this entry, some shirts I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  on some of colloquialisms that you are learning? That would be awesome. :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... . Seriously, a couple of weeks ago as we sat in a bar and watched Spain beat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go ... 'm in the second group stunt and the partner stunt and the top of the ... from Molly) Yeah our squad is smaller this year. Anyways, end of term

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  Location: 4-270 There'll be four panelists, all of whom have a strong ... . This event is especially important in light of Benazir Bhutto ... see lots of you there!

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a ... pretty much every aspect of freshman life at MIT. I love this school and ... digging around through bunches of paper. Score one for blog comments being

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  'm now a resident of Burton 1, and unfortunately for Snively will probably ... than a sledgehammer, its collective love of the song "The Way I Are" by ... .e. events in lieu of blasting dance parties - one of which was the "silent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  , which is likely why some of you have been having problems. We'll get to the bottom of that asap, but in the meantime, if you've already ... . (And if you haven't registered yet, please do so using one of those

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  figured that I'd let you know what I'm taking this term, since some of you ... class (either 9.07 or one of the others) for the major. Honestly, I hate ... geeks, and this is a class that plays to the strengths of computer geeks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  So this weekend my 61 of my fraternity brothers and I drove several ... goodness for GPS and my 4 co-pilots. So amidst a weekend of planning ... tomorrow: looking ahead to the semester of TWO classes!!!

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over last year's 11,373 applications. So, the results of the guessing game ... ,000 applications. The mean of all guesses was 12,323 (not bad!) and the median was 12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely attractive and well-mannered members of Team Bemis spent Saturday night a couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  project of the MIT-alumni company Squid Labs), where there's a DIY ... ? recirculating fountains of food seemed like the obvious escalation. a custom ... of delicious, piping hot gravy. Have a great holiday, everyone.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a ... 'll return to you the actual piece of spacecraft hardware which carried your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  , while you're thinking of it. And I certainly recommend contacting your EC ... Jeopardy-style questions. It will be more along the lines of Tell me about ... to MIT? What might you be interested in studying? Those kinds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  those of you who are looking for one: "We will be running an annual bike ... 3rd week of school, but you can usually get something ridable for ... pick up some other college essentials... " Enjoy the last week of summer!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer. National Ice Cream Day was on July 16, 2006. Even though I did not go get ... distance of the 'Tute. Get the Scoop here. Joke answer: Pi a'la mode.

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... -to-analog conversion, and eventually produces an ASCII file of spike peak times. I ... of these), and through a textbook on theoretical neuroscience (i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006