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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  wondering once if you should pursue something else, you probably didn't get ... and following my instincts, I feel like I haven't even tapped into what ... internship, I wouldn't consider myself an artist and all the classes I had

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  can't remember.), lost a pirate battle, had my lower left quadrant ... 's all. I don't live in this room anymore, but perhaps you will someday. Just don't look down if you make it to the top bunk.

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  . Classes I wouldn't mind adding: 8.351J Classical Mechanics: A Computational ... won't fit into my schedule although it looked interesting. I've gotten ... grad courses and some kids really load up on those. Me, I don't know, I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  near future (pictures will come next time! - sorry, haven't gotten time ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... aches due to age. Thus, there weren't many severe cases that required

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  famous - so many, in fact, that all of their responses wouldn't fit in this ... this program has occurred, so I don't really know what it will be like ... to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  nasty look. =/ Whoever you are, sorry dude, and please realize I wasn't ... applaud. 7:35 - ...um. I really don't think I should blog exactly what this ... demonstrated with his own water, "What if? It doesn't have to be like this. It

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  studying usually doesn't happen (I know, I'm such a dedicated student). Also, if it happens to be Friday, and my bank balance isn't zero, and I feel ... Cambridge, I have so many swaths of free time that I didn't propery appreciate

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  in a large beaker of water (it didn't), Dourmashkin pulled a latke from ... -yah) Twice as many syllables, twice as good. w00t. The latke's goal in life is ... latke. QED. 9:04 pm Circles can't tile, they waste space while sitting in

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  in between. Although my specific lab group doesn't really have an ... all, I don't really want to turn this into a political blog, so if you ... tests. To be perfectly honest, I didn't have enough experience or

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  from any class, and I don't have any clever terms to describe how I ... electronics will find parts of it boring, and those of you that don't will find ... don't have the LEDs in shelves yet, but we do have a demo board that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  fridges in the snack room, we found that one of them wasn't turned on. The ... . It was literally less than a day old, it couldn't have gone bad yet, so ... , which I love. But I haven't been this year, and the "snow" we got on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  that entails? Coming to MIT, I didn’t really know the answers to ... featured on the news, but I didn’t really understand that there was a ... found out what was going wrong, but I couldn’t believe the patience

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -winning composer wouldn't steer me wrong, would he? Realizing the night before the ... still wasn't enough to earn me my favorite grade in the class: an A-. Since MIT doesn't count plusses or minuses in calculating your GPA

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  couldn't be all bad. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Read Everything is Illuminated by ... cost you a bundle to get to or from there. So don't think "Ooh, la la la ... you don't have time to correct Wir Sind Helden's grammar. I tell you, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  next two years, I decided that if I didn't learn a foreign language, I ... , and while that's a great opportunity too, I didn't want to become too ... , which I had, while India doesn't need any. Now that I'm in Germany, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  year (instead of 2 if you apply to another school), and you don't need to ... wouldn't have been a change at all, and I needed a change. Also, it will be ... on the job, and while that isn't necessarily a bad thing, students from

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  implement next cycle There's more, but I can't think of it all at the moment ... 's office, but that isn't Matt sitting at Matt's desk. Because Matt is far ... know, I know. But I have this week's tivoed so don't discuss yet

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don't ... . =) Since I don't have any design experience, it's not like I'm responsible ... here* and just got into the class now. Not only that, I wasn't expecting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  hopefully do lunch with a bunch of people to whom I haven't spoken since high ... decided to multiply like there was no tomorrow (because, I mean, there wasn't ... presenting on my 20-page GFP report. I don't really know what I'm going to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  during CPW), so I can't say much about them. I know a couple of other ... out what, and how much, to buy. I don't know about you, but I never did ... ...I don't have vegetable oil." There are a lot of stupid little things you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005