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• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  for feedback in the last entry. :-) I will be creating some in ... the MIT East Campus dormitory, all from the same floor. My objective is to show the typical setup, furniture, and layout of a mix of rooms

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the ... mind. 1. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick" 2. Beethoven wrote only one opera and it was called "Fidelio." 3. The first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on work and get ahead for the next week. Umm... right... it never really ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle ... the nice part was that it only had 1200 miles on it, and it still had

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP)! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where ... will build a Stirling Engine, among the many options. A couple IAP

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

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of World Summit on the Information Society, where UN Secretary-General Kofi ... unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 Laptop. [news story] This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  So, I'm back in the office after this weekend's wedding. It was great ... tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3-6 years removed from the Institute are doing job-wise, here's who was around

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  , as we finally get to put the face with the application. Sometimes, it ... last fall on the road (so do you). Even then, the image in your head ... Mauritius (Geraldine), and of course to meet many of the parents, too (hi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most ... will MIT take from the waitlist? Is it true that you haven't taken any from the waitlist in the past few years? Should I even bother staying on

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  2: "No, seriously. It was so beautiful. You know how the problem wants the form and the coefficients? I used erf and it gave me both at the ... ." *Differential Equations **The error function. It's used a lot in stats

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi. One of the rush activities was a pizza dinner at ... the superiority or inferiority of crunchy peanut butter compared to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  Someone commented on the post regarding blogger applications asking that the selected blogger post their answer to the essay question. Seeing ... literature (at least, until the motion picture starring Johnny Depp as the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... just sent out this email: The MIT Midyear Report is now available on ... Report now. The MIT Midyear Report is an online form that is required of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  of living poorly during the wartime, which was made worse by the strict ... opinions about Japan. "In the international age that is the present, why are ... culture. My parents also experienced the postwar period after Japanese

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  The Bebras Computing Challenge (American homepage, international ... participants, including ~15k in the United States last year. Bebras USA is led by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... -Lab trip leaders and the community in Miramontes are working on providing a ... Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in ... too excited, the whole process takes about a month, so we're still right ... static recently, I know. This is because we've been working hard behind the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... them. i alluded to the fact that east campus was scheduled to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book, and I’ll probably read another book after finals. For now, here are the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020