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• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  amped on Monsters and Red Bulls (literally true), burning up their energy ... 'm drafting up research plans, running simultaneous trials and experiments side

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  page. Please allow up to two weeks processing time during peak application season. If the letter has not shown up as processed by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off ... set up camp in Baker House’s quiet study room. I love this room! It’s a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  . Li notwithstanding, I ended up becoming the chef on Saturdays at pika ... lost a finger due to some unfortunate chopping accident and ended up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  up a barbecue grill on the leader raft, cook meat, pass meat around in ... good losers, I gave up and took a nap. When I awoke, the raft was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  experiment co-founded by Kip for gravitational wave detection. The set-up ... , and end up making blockbuster action movies about LIGO. (Over dinner

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  the graders and probably (hopefully) ended up getting LOL points for my ... eternity of restless, test-less days. I woke up at 7 AM. A marvelous savoring

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  crystals and adding, "Beam me up, Scotty!" As he laughed at his own joke ... standard for geeks to possibly live up to." All the nerds at home can at

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  colleges, but I also love the rigors of science, which I grew up with, and ... 't. This is a list of the HASS classes I have taken up to this term and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  opening up the backs of the machines and counting up the votes at the end of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  saying that Telefonica was interested in hiring me! I set up a Skype ... . As the one Course 2 (mechanical engineer) who ended up in a company

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  -tagged (and there's an antenna sitting in a pan that holds up the glass plate ... headed up by 2001 Physics Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle, whose office

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

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  " "We encourage you to come up with your own procedure to solving problems ... work 24 hours a day coming up with groundbreaking research or I could

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  greeted by a screen like this: Click It is then up for you, the student ... 've got all the answers up, just get online and we get this done. Andrew: I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  ;m giving the thumbs-up because we haven’t gotten in an accident ... happily paid. The two sons bought us a power strip, helped us set up our

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  up to chair a committee on housing and orientation even though I had ... make sure you end up where you a priori predict your end point. While

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  . George was constantly rounding up new data and anecdotes while I busily ... battery was about to die, reaching up in the darkness to see if the charger

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  PIs. I did not give up and I was fortunate enough to start my first UROP ... . Make sure you have fun. Join a club and become a leader! Pick up a sport

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  know I got myself into this, and there's nothing I would give up -- but ... problems and then broke up, so the whole semester is just a blur of angry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  I had lunch with the ever-dashing Ben Jones today. I hadn't seen him in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... lives up in pictures, detailing the events they attend, the reality shows

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006