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• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to ... other words, all my relatives that are currently in this country). And ... travel. Wednesday was 13 hours including traffic by bus, just me and my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of my crap (believe me, a lot of it is crap) up a floor (onto Conner 3 ... bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  while, and I would look down at their page over my absurdly high nose and ... would post every day, about classes and my terrible eating habits and the way the trees look from my dorm room and exactly how long it takes me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  morning when I first wake up, I reached blindly for my iPod so I could check my e-mail. There was the typical stuff, comments from blogs, e ... -mailing myself. The e-mail looked perfectly legit, it was sent from my MIT account

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  . (For more about IAP, see my former entries on IAP 2007 and 2006. So what do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my ... things in the Hobby Shop, and checking things off of my “101 Things to Do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  the way around the world from my home in the States, the Observatory was ... Study of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics (LERMA). My job was to try ... , and along the way, I got to make lots and lots of plots. I spent my

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea ... . My genes didn't really favor that department. *Gulps protein shake* So ... of my life at this place. I LOVE IT. So why would anyone want to come

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  sitting in my room listening to Ween, meanwhile Joe '08 won $25,000 to save MIT. So I got this e-mail this morning from my 10.491: Integrated ... swanky hotel rooms instead of the floor in my dorm room. Thanks to my visit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  when I happen to be walking to the Haus from MIT Medical with my camera ... , is this wall directly outside of my room. According to my hallmate Sari ... space between the drawers and my lamp. No commenting on the unfinished

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  Well, I got my wisdom teeth pulled on Thursday afternoon, and I ... of right now, the corners of my lips are raw, and I still look like a ... besides my IB but thats not enough is it? Well, considering there are 17

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  Tube and MySpace and Facebook and even Wikipedia. And straying a little ... reading this, because open-source is quite possibly my favorite thing. Ever ... there for anyone to listen to. I know I have Ben's band on my iPod. =P

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  days. Me? I'm a slacker. Well, here's my excuse: it was a four ... statement of purpose for grad school, or a practice GRE essay, or one of my ... EAT MY OWN HAND!" So that wasn't a good mindset for writing a blog entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of ... will be very useful.My question is;in what extracurricular activities ... 'm looking forward to hear from you." I've covered some of the question in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  for Dorm Rush. Helped out with parties on my hall. Helped choose new housemasters for my dorm. Painted my room. Helped repaint the black section of ... rush chair, or a member of my dorm's exec. Never designed and painted a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  insights into patterns in raw data. The idea excited me so much I took my savings from my paper route and went down to the local hardware store to get ... entering my junior year at M.I.T., I saw a notice on the student bulletin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  would put a picture up, but teratomas are a rather shocking sight. My ... "yum"? Friday: My prefrosh, Minh, was quite the trooper and wanted to come to my 9:30 AM biochemistry class. So, after a breakfast in Burton

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my ... get hectic. Last year, I started my UROP in the Chen Lab in the Center ... students. I have always been passionate about food (I think it comes from my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  Program, commonly referred to as UROP, which gives me and my fellow ... discovery. I spent my first few months on campus checking the UROP website and ... good an opportunity as any to figure out if biology is "my thing" and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  the Indian subcontinent in the film. Peace has been on my mind a lot ... . There's a pretty big stack of folders on my dining room table. Just how ... interviewer have told us, it is my job to summarize your application on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  )[/caption] Much to my dismay, the instructors conveniently had an explanation for ... them at the Glass Lab, I ensured that I’d be the first to get my hands on a few of these mysterious confections. Lo and behold, my dietary

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022