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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  TO: Elizabeth, Michael would you two be interested in presenting ... , pretending that they were the people whom you wanted to get funding from in the ... calming stream trickling down a gently sloping hill in a meadow full of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  you'll be happiest. 2.In one year, a lot will be different I can pretty ... high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the ... around this time. I can hardly believe how much has changed in just one

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and ... an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  bailout drama, Obama appointments, riots in Greece, and hackers installing Linux on a potato. But last night in Next House, a very different kind of ... day', which since yesterday is declared to be celebrated every year in

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  chairs, the rest of the house always pitches in to set things up and ensure ... 've set things up so that each class "works" one of the formals and puts in ... worked in the kitchen helping our (amazing) house chef, and some of us

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  I know what you're thinking, "Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I ... , but to be cultured and knowledgeable about the world you live in. They ... songs in the traditional language of Senegal, such as [translated] "I went

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  , completely mind-numbing oddities that can be found in the tubes. Do you ... "dramatic lemur," and how some unnamed "people in the lounge" were concerned ... 'll all come together in the end. I promise. I have a gift for this kind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  was great, students were tossing a frisbee, and music was blasting in ... videotape their cover of "Here In Your Arms" (solo by Kevin Schoenfelder, I ... sorority called Kappa Alpha Theta, temporarily housed in a graduate dorm

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  settled in enough that I don't remember what my own experience was like :-P ... ice cream, donuts, dinners at fraternities. So keep the cash in your ... . Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til you try it. I can't say how many

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists ... because 30 people are taking a picture of a paper tree in lobby 10 then I ... 't trying to get to class. I now try to be more refined in my photography

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  took place in the Boston Sheraton hotel and MIT's admission's office ... for another, I was actually interested in what they had to say. It ... began we realized that all of the font was in Times New Roman which is

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  sent before the deadline? And am I in trouble? Let's take the last question first. No, you're not in trouble if your materials haven't yet shown ... : The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15 -- Way West

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a ... EC to find a time and place that works for your interview. In a ... recommendations for the interview, which I think are pretty good: Review the ways in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect ... -the-go young professional from the Northeast. However, in any kind of a tight ... cloudy day. We went about our lives in front of a still picture of a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  . Considering your work course load and everything else you do at MIT. In short I ... as the club. I can see 50 cent or Alisha Keys using that floor in a new ... : Floor in Popular Science? Hi – I’m an editor at Popular Science and I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in ... fulfilled by taking 4 gym classes, or by participating in 2 seasons of a ... , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  over their two best flights. 10 hours in the lab and it was born. Held ... colors of spray paint we found in the cabinet. Yes but what does a ... dot in the sky. By the time it was our turn it'd started getting dark

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT means "WITH" in German. CPW! CPW! Hey prefrosh, I ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... some of my incredibly dedicated colleagues in blogging, but I have an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  , however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks ... ! For the last six months I've spent time in cyberspace talking to your ... -ending campus visits. I know that this process is equally stressful for you. In

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in biology, and eat lots of free food and stay in free hotels and fly using ... home of a current student in the program. Sunday, Feb 26. I take a tour

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006