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• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I was always interested in science and technology, and M.I.T. was the best ... entering my junior year at M.I.T., I saw a notice on the student bulletin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  Disclaimer: I don't actually live in Baker, but way back in 2003, I ... street location, they said we couldn't do that Diana: last year a couple ... done with pianos falling off the roof? i mean isn't that noisy? Diana

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  perfect fit for MIT and I can't wait to see you as a freshman this fall ... those who couldn't make it (like Kelli), we really missed you. Words ... fire. It didn't hurt that we had an open bar for the parents! (Hey, $40

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  the cannon, leaving a cute toy one in its place. We weren't supposed to ... -made paper banner, and a grill with burgers and hot dogs. They didn't want to ... , anything but Transparent Horizons! Don't take Transparent Horizons! *cough

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  did absolutely nothing productive, and I wouldn't have it any other way ... Products. Come on. You can't get any cooler than that.) Anyway, the ... . I'm so excited. I have been assigned to a prefrosh, but I won't be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  at M.I.T., the U.S.'s premier engineering school, the traditional ... Pearce, a chemical-engineering major from Chicago: "It's marketed as--I don't ... consulting. "If you're an M.I.T. grad and you're going to get paid $50,000 to

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  to which you don't know the answer, please feel free to ask me or the ... ? Questions that I'm actually answering: 1. To reiterate, I don't know where I ... conference this fall. I didn't do any extracurriculars except cheerleading and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  internet. However, you can't go around making embarrassing entries like this ... so, we sent Dr. Tabacco an e-mail. Now, I don't have the original text ... , we got a response. Now, again, I don't have the exact e-mail to quote

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Even if you want to boil water really quickly, don't start with hot tap water. If you haven't read this article on admissions ... the universe at a quantum level. I don't know. I'm an engineer, not a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn't ... bunch of people that I haven't seen since high school. It's a little weird ... -night, low-cost, low-quality food. Ben wasn't so happy about being out at a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  NASA Television but doesn't get Bravo, I was reading the fantastic recap ... don't. Let me describe the design: It's a black and white dress. The ... -bolt print. The magnets don't hold, but I'm going to say I think this design is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  morning when you can't understand how e-mail works?" Heck, I'm almost ready ... least I didn't make any egregious spelling errors like I do in all of ... of the few lecturers in Chemical Engineering who hasn't yet been

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  hobby, right? Didn't want to study it to death, else I might start looking ... couldn't think of anything else I wanted to study. Transportation just looked so interesting. And that's not to say it doesn't now. I'm just

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  gives you gallstones. Luckily, I don't like spinach very much. That's why ... bar. Guess she didn't smell it coming." I actually have two other jokes ... ." Well, that wasn't very nice of it. Now, normally that's not a huge issue

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  yesterday morning, it had all melted by last night. This isn't exactly weird ... . I just don't get it. Anyway, I thought I'd wrote a quick little entry ... ? That's really short! I haven't had a chance to contact the coach yet." I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  didn't get back to campus until quarter til 11. I mean, come on. Anyway ... when you don't update (like Ruth). People get all excited when you ... ? just for times when you don't xactly have time to make a three

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly ... ) pset, due Wednesday at 5pm (took 4-5 hours). This wasn't too bad. It was ... first week and I couldn't do much since I haven't had animal safety

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  . Pretend you couldn't tell.) Shank1 is such a scaffold protein. It was ... of things are known about Shank1, but lots of things aren't known, so ... and climb on. Mice can swim, but they don't like to, so he learns pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  aurora borealis. Of course, I don't have any pictures of these things because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You ... ! Mitra was all, "oh, let's run 8 miles, Spammy" and I haven't learned how

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  Brief background: I try to be healthy. I don't eat junk food, and I ... Marathon. Granted, the marathon isn't until April, but I have my work cut out ... went running. They aren't bad, but they're worn down from several years

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005