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• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I ... dry. Suffice it to say I was not expected to participate in sorority ... in the vein of bashing sororities indiscriminately, I wanted a valid

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  was like looking back through history, in t-shirts.  I've decided to ... choosing: a selection of t-shirts, shot in the ever wonderful medium of the i ... have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in room 26-100 This is the same room in which I attended 8.01: Classical Mechanics (Physics) lecture with Sam '07 freshman year, and in which I heard

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must face the truth...about engineering leadership. As I hinted at in my last entry, Kevin '11, Joe '12, and I had an on-camera discussion about how GEL

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is ... , winner of the Nobel Prize in 2001. I think I would have asked them to ... EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... average here. That said, early on in my undergraduate career, I realized

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  means in english." i closed my eyes, unable to continue. ... I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for all the lost sleep in the last 3 months. After obsessively refreshing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week was pretty intense: 6.021J - Quantitative Physiology I - Cells and

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  in 1992. What I didn't know at the time is that FIRST was actually ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to ... cupcake in my hand (I was lucky to know where to stand to grab an early part ... MIT 150. I marveled at the large screen toast to MIT by alumni in space

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  are just beginning. Oddly enough, I'm in lab, but later this afternoon, I will be participating in my first ever VEGETARIAN BARBECUE. It ... it. Last year, some friends and I celebrated July 4th by barbecuing at

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... many summers I spent in Grenoble. They had some fantastic vin de noix, je ... salad this side of July 14th. I erroneously added the raspberries in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester. The classes I'll be taking are really good, and I've wanted to take them

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  So as promised earlier, this week I'm highlighting another one of my ... pronounces what we know as H20 as "woodur." Too bad I don't have a sound ... (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) on blood, he drew blood from the head TA in front of the

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  studying civil engineering. I’m participating in the Cambridge ... in a big hall with 4 long tables where I am served a three course meal ... (where I’m staying) and dines here regularly. He’s in this

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle ... been much more interesting than that in the past week; it's just that I ... Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn

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

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  diversity :) I can attest to my constant switching between psychedelic rock ... as an obsessive Spotify user, it's only fitting that i finish my last ... consistent tradition, and if I had to guess, they'll continue for a while

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  date? I don't think mine could have lasted another day or two...) Sam and I are flying out to Los Angeles today for a one-week stay in the ... When I woke up this morning, I made myself my typical bowl of Kashi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  be tomorrow (Friday) at from 5-7pm in Stata Center room 32-155. I know ... me as well. For those of you in from out of town, I'll be happy to ... While we're still quite busy with selection, tomorrow (Friday) I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006