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• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  MIT gives students the month of January off, it's something they call the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget cuts, it's been canceled this year. http://iap.mit.edu/ [please note

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  sleeping lots blogging :) Blog entries I want to write: recap of the ... from last year I never had time to post :) a look at MIT's tunnels ... UROPs at the Langer Lab and the Amon Lab whatever you want me to talk

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  , building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY ... and there's also some doors that lead to Stata or the Green Building ... sidenote: Click this if you want the answer to the cryptogram puzzle from my

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear ... 're excited to have these conversations with your counselor about the state of ... breakfasts. I should note that in addition to the west coast and midwest, MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Susan Hockfield’s Private Concert La la la la la la la laaaaaaa!!!!

  

  Yes, we are this cool. We perform our drinking song, in capes, for our president. Also, last year, the Marching Band was a bit more destructive. As you can see, Alex (a prefrosh then, an '11 now) decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  While You Wait… ...why not play Brawl?

  

  , March 15 (Pi Day + 1). Best of luck to all of you! 2. Super Smash Brothers ... . Although I've yet to see the hack for myself, as I've been working in my room all morning (having an 8.022 p-set due tomorrow will do that to you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... Easter). So what does this mean? It means that we’re supposed to ... really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Class of 2012 guestbook and an update on The Tubes.

  

  . Watch your mailbox! Finally, feel free to use this entry's fresh comments

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2 ... invited as well as the students who went over to MIT last year. Cambridge ... 've got to say I would've rather served myself instead of being served. We

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  deconstructs the psychological nature of hacking, and gets to the inner zen of ... unusual but relevant introduction to MIT, I highly recommend this video on ... encouraged to pay very close attention to the notion that perhaps the book in

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  A few weeks back, MIT's most famous fictitious current student, Alex Doonesbury '10, had an exciting IAP, doing the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition (not to mention Palmistry, Advanced Sudoku, a chocolate workshop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  running around campus, finding places to sit and study physics. Yesterday, on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack ... - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.

  

  alternately hosted by Marsha Bolton from the President's Office and myself. To

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  wanted to say, really, but I had to think of something MIT-related because ... way. And I was going to write a blog entry saying basically, "Anybody ... to say that. It's true! But upon further inspection this evening, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  Virginia's scenic New River. And now it's starting to get cold here in ... my camera. I stepped out of my room the other day and had to traverse ... fairly often. We try not to walk barefoot on the splinters and shards, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights ... , despite never having seen these words before and abandoning my studies to ... 'll have to leave the others here at the desk"), tissues ("Yeah, that rule

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  Kresge Little Theater, MIT Free and open to the public Co-Sponsored by the ... to generate sounds. Fitted with sensors linked to a musical interface ... ://web.mit.edu/mit-france/ This should be awesome, and I will post pics if I manage to take any

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  mid-June. I flew to Geneva and then took the train to Lausanne. I ... . And this, as you might be able to guess, was burial grounds. After I visited the ruins, I went to the nearby lakefront beach. That's France

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  : $3), you can consume Boston's favorite treat to your heart's (stomach

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006