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• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emma Subject: BEST DESK CALL EVER To: bmf me ... automatically assume that you're some crazy child genius and an expert in anything

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  learned about in school. Later, I met The Snively and The Ben Jones at check-in, and walking down The Infinite Corridor, I saw The Admissions Office: My friend Feldman '11 walked me to The East Campus, where I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I'd leave you with a little musical treat that I received in my inbox this morning. To: Bryan From: Matt Sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.

  

  decided to make life interesting for us. Fortunately the primary tech folks are still in Cambridge, but needless to say, trying to coordinate all of ... It's been a nightmare of a weekend. We are all down in NYC for the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the extraordinary. For the benefit of the world, forget who you were to fit in with ... for me, anyway, writing poems is a way to become grounded in reality

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... happened to be in Cambridge for the weekend, called me up and invited me down

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  having to reprogram all of that, and in these past four months, I think I've made progress in terms of learning to trust people and see the good in ... what home is to me in such a short amount of time. When I think of home

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually ... , but it's better to keep you in suspense, right? 9. According to one of ... BASF online. I want to get an internship in Germany this summer through

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  . There had been more TAs for a while, but in 004 they tend to leave shortly ... in the end, and more, seemed to be bubbling to the surface - to say ... errors at the exact same point in the test jig, which caused us to high

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but ... every saturday or sunday my freshman fall, i'd go over to have dinner with

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and ... /Treasurers/Important People in student groups on campus, where they will discuss how to apply ... upperclassmen gallantly agreed to give us piggyback rides. Eventually I decided I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  comments, which I will respond to in an untimely fashion. I'll let you know ... /student interactions happened that I thought I could add to this entry. In 10 ... DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson is the first artist to have five top ten

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public ... very good". Certainly you don't have to be an IMO medalist to get in ... UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more ... DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I worked last summer, is the largest corporate logo in the world. So I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  artist in addition to your future audience. As time progressed, our writing assignments grew in length (from a 1-page comic to a 20-page full issue with a ... information to include in individual panels. Our class wrote comic scripts on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  in the Cambridge area.  The Red Line no longer delivers me to the ... probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do ... college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  got to meet Colin (MIT '10) whose application I read back in the fall ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity to all sorts of cool places to visit. And one of the great things about going to MIT is that you have a long weekend nearly every month. Last

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... corresponds to what its function in the circuit is. The battery is energetic

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008