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• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a special treat (or perhaps a trick) near the Great Dome. I saw the hack ... . Elsewhere on campus, the Halloween fervor was in full swing as students (and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  tomorrow is October 31: Halloween. And the next day is November 1: the MIT ... the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of ... patient with the application tracking system. Allow two weeks from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  1702, Bologna, Italy It's late in the afternoon, and the sunlight is streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto the worn, cobblestoned city square. Aside from the ever-present pigeons

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  registered for the course getting really excited to be there only to find out that about 30% of us were going to be kicked out of the class by the end. This, I never picked up on, because throughout the last 1/3 of the class

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  analysis for the 3rd 8.14 lab (Zeeman effect in Hg). My oral presentation is friday for this lab, but with the 8.06 deadlines this week I'm not sure I'll make it. I'm writing my paper on the dynamical (SO(4) rotational group

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  is nervousness about how thorough and multi-syllabic the response is ... lived over on the Boston side had to hike over the Harvard Bridge to this ... ways in the snow to get to the Institute back then. After a stint in

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in ... seemed way more attractive, so I did that instead. The poetry class I take ... think), and a poet. Bill, that's who teaches the course, taught a class 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  accepted to MIT, I still clearly remember the day I received my decision. The morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living ... congratulate or console. As I prepared to click the button, I was neither

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  I've decided that before I go to bed I should take advantage of the awesome capabilities of this wonderful invention called "The Laptop." It has ... propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  This summer at nerd camp, I heard about a band called The Pipettes. I spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and ... the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team of MIT alums; lots of really smart people. They actually won the hunt 2

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  speculation all over the web about the reasons behind our increasing the number ... no plans to increase the class size, nor are we abandoning the ... changes in the early application policies of some of our peer institutions

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the Navy. The good news is that I now know what I'm doing after I graduate ... tell you about today? ICE. And I don't mean solid water. From the subject

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  hands on some power tools- of the large variety. One of the principle machine shops on campus is Pappalardo Lab. This is the lab space used by ... resources. The primary component is the shop area- but nearby are also several

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less ... needed to be posted on the blogs. Expect a real post from me this weekend

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  Hi friends, This story will likely be all over the news soon, so we ... when we've had the chance to digest it further, but right now we're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process ... devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I know to join the team, too, at least for the summer. The company is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life as a Talent Scout I could be the next Randy Jackson.

  

  , Battle of the Bands, I went to check out a potential band for the competition. So on the way there, I stopped at Burger King on the way and tried the Cheesy Tots. I don't even want to know how many years of my life I

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... , so I curled up in Hayden with Moll Flanders. I usually sit up on the second floor, near the M-Z section of "Current Periodicals" so I can treat

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007