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• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... ways) to print. Escape this terrible fate!! I imagine IS&T explains ... so much by person and by major that broad generalizations like that won't

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  Hello, I'm a PC. Hello, I'm a Mac. If you haven't seen one of these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the ... , etc. My brothers weren't coming to college with me. For the first time

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  When I woke up this morning, I made myself my typical bowl of Kashi GOLEAN cereal (don't knock it till you've tried it) and poured over it ... date? I don't think mine could have lasted another day or two...) Sam

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  Thing the movie didn't get right: Gogol & Moushumi's train station scene Thing the movie didn't get at all: Nikhil's Yale years -- these were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  up a coveted UMA Pi Day T-shirt. See you there! Tonight, Eta Kappa Nu ... its diameter? A: Pumpkin pi. Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  a headache? Have some Tylenol! Stuffy nose and a cough that just won't ... to Medical! One drawback to the program, however, is that you don't ... senior year, when I had to convince my mom that no, this wasn't due to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  the Cheesy Tots. I don't even want to know how many years of my life I ... I couldn't say no. So we went. And we had fun. I just recovered my

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  last entry. *grins evily* IE isn't all bad, but once I found Firefox I ... features that Firefox doesn't have, but overall the design bothered me. As ... didn't think was possible. Plus it has AcidSearch, which is a more easily

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! So so sorry that I haven't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and ... dancing. Don't know when I'll stop. It's a different kind of excitement

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  you wouldn't know it because I blogged only about things that happened ... , but it's a really intense course: 9 days, 9 hours a day, 9 units. I can't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  out with your heart to a bunch of strangers. A little scary, isn't it ... life. But don't let that inhibit you from recognizing this is a big step, not a finish line, in your life (and especially don't let it inhibit

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  my application read, I have to press it. 2. I don't own a time machine ... , and that's all I can ask for. Don't start the new year stressed out

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  inventive with a PC power supply. You can’t make this stuff up ... in her room and didn't even realize that... a few...had leaked out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  could use his credit card." "You can't just send an ion through a ... have never met cranberry sauce that I wasn't immediately friends with ... across campus. My friend Christana couldn't stop laughing when she saw my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  People sometimes say that it doesn't matter where you go for ... school. You shouldn't spend your undergraduate experience thinking ahead ... coursework 2001: To be honest, I don't remember what my high school GPA was. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  name really is Arthur – and no, I wasn”t named after the cartoon. HE was ... The Man for short. PIERCE: Right, I was just with him. Didn”t say a ... . I mean, we really didn”t talk to him or anything. PIERCE

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  were written, I couldn't keep writing about the same topics over and over ... ramble on about, but there are things that I can't/won't put into a public ... the UA, and other groups - did you notice that I didn't actually write

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  It had been quite a while since I looked at MIT's online Hack Gallery. But now, I look, and I notice that while they aren't completely up to ... please don't everybody say the taking of Caltech's Fleming Cannon. I have a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  you enough of the basics that you don't look like a total tourist when you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look ... yourself walking through buildings 16, 56, and 66; this route isn't really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted ... ). There isn't anything terribly earth-shattering about the way the place was ... are many other dorms with a feeling of community, so don't think that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006