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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  completely lost again. Meh. In retrospect, I picked up many calc problems that ... organic chemistry > Spring Break is coming up, and tonight I'll be ... it up, hahaha. Try some if you go to Japan! They're usually really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  the NIH, I packed up my bags and skipped across the pond to Oxford ... Up” or even “Fratparty.” People take the themes pretty seriously and ... and Spring Break when deadlines pile up, sleep takes a backseat, and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  other half who had to dress up as pilgrims instead of indians. That was ... up one day out of the year. Each year, the day before Thanksgiving, the ... set up of steel ducks that get knocked down if you shoot them (like at

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I ... the housing market. Solow followed this up by saying that now, what is ... disease. Instead, he proposed a bottom-up approach - seeking an alternative

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  and showed up to exactly one meeting, in which a crowd of student ... 's most of the freshman class!) signed up to clean up harbors, work at the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  out what works best for you as you go. Sometimes you end up dropping a ... can help clear those concerns up. If you have any questions of your own ... Emergent - the personal blog that I ended up submitting as my "portfolio" - a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  strong work ethic on top. Simple enough, I figured it summed me up pretty ... prompt, I have to just wait until I randomly come up with the perfect plan ... , green with a date lets you know when it has. This template is set up with

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... expensive). March 22nd came and Michelle and I loaded up our backpacks with ... random ladies with backpacks on their chests walked up. "Hey guys! Would

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  'm trying not to get my hopes up. But dang. So anyway, a list of some of the ... las Americas: There were booths set up representing many different parts ... gave me a lot to think about. Now, last things last – I should finish up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  feel like a physicist. Up until this point, I've felt like a kid walking around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I ... , I was pretty average. Once I came to MIT, I gave it up. But after

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  correction!) I took Sailing the first quarter and learned how to set up and ... up and down in the water!). When I first arrived at MIT, I must admit ... was holed up in Dewey Library (the social science library), voraciously

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six ... devising, a mixture of straight-up English, Dominican Spanish and hieratic ... the mike, it's also the funniest. As Oscar and Lola grow up and go to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  Harry Potter conference, his eyes brightened up, his voice grew more ... he expects the new one will be up by midday Sunday. "You need to be ... up for the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. [Please

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  assigned to Next House (I still run into my host, and I ended up living in ... school, broke up after a few months, realized how much they hated the ... up the MIT vibes, and ask us questions. If something is bugging you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  behind them catches up to them (bumps them). The first boat across the ... 't like a subject or professor, at least you don't have to put up with it ... , and it was fun wandering around. We ended up at an antique store run by

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high ... , mustering up every bit of my courage, I defied Pulitzer Prize-winning composer ... was ecstatic, but I then faced the challenge of rustling up three other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  class where the only instructions were, "Okay, read this paper, come up ... cartridges of 22 M formic acid at all times, that's going to add up to a lot of ... time you're not actively talking on the phone, it's going to heat up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  ... From Mills' perspective his scores don't quite measure-up. Nevertheless ... , he is admitted to the Class of 2011. Let's back up for a moment and ... : Everyone falls down; it's the winners in life who get up really fast and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  causing some exciting discussion and controversy, which always spices up ... the greatest pick up line i have ever heard in my life... AHHH too bad ... consisted entirely of nerdy pick-up lines, beginning with that one. (“Vote for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  start setting up camp, got a little more into the whole pirate mood than ... -quite-ready-for-piracy boat.... ...where we promptly set up camp (so prompt, in fact, that ... got picked up by harbor patrol and taken safely to shore. Luckily

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006