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  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got tired quickly. We walked all the way from there to the Lusaka Post Office, and along the way stopped at three different bookstores looking for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  !) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer) interning at the headquarters of North America's second-largest railroad, BNSF

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... hall solely because I was really just that bad in the kitchen. Well, I ... . (No, not everything can be considered food by adding the term "flambé

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors ... . Before I go on, "hall" means "floor" -- if I ever use one or the other, now ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to ... sign taped beside the family computer: Sam's Mom always goes that extra mile. Today was the only day I'll be in Harrisburg between June 1st and

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

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... . Me in fierce boffer combat with Dan '08 on the Random Hall roofdeck. Summer '05. Me at the Undergraduate Assocation President

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  'stin asked, "can you talk about the residence-based advising ... 'll answer the second question, first. For upperclassmen, they chose their classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  hall, and he hadn't been back in the building since the early 1970s. Talk ... to dinner following a "signing of the forms" (see above). We've had a few dinners like this throughout the year -- freshman advisors get money

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and has trouble understanding what one does on a vacation to the beach.) No ... , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... show what materials we have processed for you. We should have the ... . What happens if the tracking system is missing something? First, do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of ... 'm thinking why not just enter a PhD program off the bat? What I guess is nice about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and ... last month, in the Parents' Forum, which was discussing Marilee Jones

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the ... years under the guidance of Dr. Eric Hudson. Scanning tunneling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  improving my quality of life over the past 48 hours. 1. The Burton-Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment ... third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  While the period known as "End of term" certainly brings finals anxiety, it also brings many events and traditions celebrating the ... these, including the last 3.091 lecture (described here by Kevin), all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... my first one this past semester and finished it over the summer ... Portugal. Here’s a quick look at some highlights from the project—and what a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  brilliant jazz standard. i like the Lana Del Rey and Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald versions a lot.']Summertime and the livin’s easy ... work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for ... sitting in my room reading the problems. I ignored this and walked along Memorial Drive on the trip back from the UA Meeting. The weather, for the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  [annotation note="read, they still haven't kicked me out of the group chat yet."]Until very recently,[/annotation] I was the president of Next House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  , but then I realized I could also sneak into a comic book class with the ... ="attachment_86135" align="alignnone" width="300"] do not look at the purple one shhh[/caption] 1. 2.008: Design and Manufacturing II [The Yo-Yo Class] The goal

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023