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My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...
11PM, so just for fun we went back to MIT! At the Student Center we
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Blog / Extracurriculars
Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service
?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is -
Blog / MIT Life
My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…
individuals whom I've met. She's a rock star in Course 11, a fluent Spanish -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!
Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be flooded with eager beavers that want to eat free food, stay up late, and maybe even meet… -
Blog / MIT Life
Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.
Today, as I was walking down Mass Ave after work, I saw some Aero/Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 quad, and… -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.
My most vivid recollection of a July 4 celebration came from a book that I read in middle school. The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. Basically, the book is about… -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.
I spent today playing with yeast cells, and I couldn’t be happier. Let me back up. As you may already know, this summer, I’m working with Professor Angelika Amon of… -
Blog / Athletics
ICIC A journey to deliciousness
With two weeks left until Bike and Build (donate donate donate!) I decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the next level by… -
Blog / Miscellaneous
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. Today was my first day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure agreements and the threat of prison… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23
not to negotiate?), whether the 9/11 conspiracy theories have any clout -
Blog / MIT Life
A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.
I took my first final today: 8.022, Electricity & Magnetism with Theory. It wasn’t a bad class, all told. Circuits are pretty cool, and I liked the bits about relativity… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.
Ten thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours Ten thousand thirty-two hundred moments so dear Ten thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?
[by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and presenters to the MIT community in the large lecture hall 26-100. We show -
Blog / Events
Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back
Sorry for not having posted recently. It’s gotten to the point where the work is completely overwhelming and any time not spent working is time that feels like it’s being… -
Blog / Admissions
Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.
Ok, I’m breaking my “Only blog every other day” rule, but only because I don’t really count the liveblog yesterday as an entry so much as a fun activity. CPW… -
Blog / How to Human
Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…
11:30 PM and I have an entire quantum mechanics pset and a biodiesel -
Blog / About Decisions
After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.
For the past six months, I have been truly privileged to share my MIT experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about my classes, my… -
Blog / About Decisions
One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.
This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand, I’ve gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
During first semester I published a nice little entry about my bookshelf in my personal blog. It’s now 2008 and my bookshelf has undergone several renovations. What does the bookshelf… -
Blog / Events
Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.
Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT’s student body really distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level, it almost seems as if…