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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  groups, it's a lot more interesting to cook for myself. By the way, I hate ... of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to ... see how well that works. I used to hear that cooking is just applied

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  scheduled entry.... One of the things I like about being home is getting to ... knit sweaters--when I'm at MIT, I have been known to take bathroom breaks ... Melinda Gates doesn't seem to be so thrilled about it. Look at that scowl. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  (Course 15) and Mathematics with Computer Science (Course 18C), showed up to ... at her and possibly send her to MIT Medical. Anna has every music lover ... Department and Comparative Media Studies, she is helping to lay the foundation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... run the San Diego Math Circle, which I had a chance to visit. A Math ... plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we ... think that at other schools, maybe athletes don't have to do silly things ... sore and threw my neck out of whack trying to do this (as the one on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  [note: As of August 2006, this entry is out of date in regard to testing requirements. For the most up-to-date information, please view the MIT Admissions home page] All []s represents edits to this entry made on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to ... Economics Department to receive the Clark Medal." According to Soundings ... Jane (Angelina Jolie) are revealing to each other the lies they have told

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  special effects blockbuster, you may want to check out this department. I also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a ... unofficial MIT Hack Hotline spread the news to selected members of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote ... the panel from the College Board disagreed. "He told me I was jumping to ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  Garden State. Still having jet-lag, I woke up quite early so I wanted to ... came highly recommended, and overall I'd have to say I liked it. After it ... to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  you're done here, you should be able to make out most of the above text and move on to the next section about phonology. Consonants There are three major categories to describe consonants: their place of articulation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  universities in the world. Are you worried that you have no qualifications to ... being “open to people, places, methods, and ideas.” In order to fulfill this, the staff strives to promote educational opportunity

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  is the best opportunity I have to go abroad. College is one of the most convenient times to travel, but being an MIT student can make it pretty hard to spend time in anther country. It’s difficult to justify spending a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... cousin, and my best friend all made it in, so it was my turn to follow suit ... learned how to write about myself, how to create the froyo flavor that

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  , listening to songs about Alexander Hamilton on YouTube, and flipping through ... , confident as you please. I tend to solve problems quickly, so the extreme time ... did too. I did some more integrals leading up to the contest. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  /Build/Fly team, training all our delightful new members and gearing up to fly (and ... . I got to meet astronauts, hear Elon Musk speak live, and get expert ... fortunately well-positioned to get a picture. That's Michael Collins

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  to introduce myself. And because I'm bad at narrating my life, we'll go ... their lives and we headed over to Kansas. I've since lived in Kansas for ... I'd love to straighten out more semi-false stereotypes. Current

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  six-week breaks and a summer vacation lasting from mid June to early ... from late May to early September. I'd estimate about twelve hours of ... many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and ... the latest tides of prefrosh, but nonetheless I do want to totally sound ... experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  20 euro per night price tag. The second thing we did in Nice was go to ... entire room full of severed mannequin parts, to symbolize man's timeless ... entering. However, it was not quite enough to scare us away, and we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006