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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  team and catching up with the project and I've delved into a mission design task-- coming up with a strategy for sky coverage and modeling each ... recently that hooked up the entire city with free wireless internet excluding

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  exactly what I'd want to say to sum up this year. All I've got is: my ... got up at 5 to take the Fung Wah bus to Coney Island, or the all ... 've gotten some sleep.) And though I thought at multiple points I'd trip up and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  someone and meet people. I don’t think I met a single stuck-up person ... pressed a button and they moved up and down so she could write on them. 6 ... hours during CPW), but I'm glad I stayed up as long as I could. I did

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  :45am: I actually wake up. I look outside and see that the bad weather hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... bad as I'd feared, but the rain is starting to pick up a bit now. At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  could be in three places at once!) 7:45 AM: Woke up and immediately ... we went to Sunny’s Diner (just up Mass Ave) for a good ole’ artery ... UROP. I work in the BioInstrumentation Lab and I’m trying to write up the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  my current situation, but I can't remember it because I didn't end up ... . But seriously, guys, everything's really up in the air right now. I ... and that the place won't be too crowded for me to pick up an application

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  up "no later than this Friday." Two and a half Fridays later (or ... something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April ... completely forgot about this until Kel '10 walked up to me after our 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  later, I'm finally about ready to finish up this entry on marching band ... when the drummer gets tired of making up a cadence, we just let her use ... unsuspecting MIT students. Basically it meant that you give us $15 and we show up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions ... engineering honors society, Pi Tau Sigma. But, I did not end up joining either ... would just end up with the worst stomach ache known to man. I am slowly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  not putting up a new blog post since I left MIT. </sarcasm> My ... , my friends and I spent too much time hanging out and catching up on ... , it felt like we'd never left each other - we were merely picking up

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I ... energy. Jiu-Jitsu prepares a person for any situation, including stand-up ... : As you can probably tell, I'm trying to finish up my PE requirement

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  steering the Human Genome Project to completion. Heading up the Broad ... an MIT professor, Rodney Brooks. To pay for research, the start-up ... capital firms. Although the company rounded up $15 million from 1998 to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan ... to dinner with my potential employers, and then met up with my family ... BATHTUB!!!! I AM IN HEAVEN! Continue studying. Sleep. Friday: Wake up at 6

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  noodles until we get scurvy and staying up until 4AM day after day ... stay up until 4, what with none of my classes this semester starting ... of our GRTs had the swing up on a different branch of the tree. You

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  applicant. I'll tell you right up front that I attribute my success in grad ... -based medium" for Admissions. (Doesn't that sound so slick?) I ended up talking ... . Interview 2001: None. I was too shy to sign up for an optional interview. 2005

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

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  first entries, but I assume that I've picked up new readers since July '05 ... by a friend. How did you come up with the name for your blog? This is ... earth. "This land was brought up from the depths of the ocean by a diver

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  . The aardvark looks up with a start.) PIERCE: (addressing the file ... . So we went around MIT, ended up at the river, and threw the file – and ... completely made-up aardvark pouch, much like that of a kangaroo) PIERCE

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

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  will start beating you. Did you know that Haagen Dazs is a made-up word ... , went into East Berlin, and then finished up in West Berlin. So, rather ... this up into two entries. Twenty pictures is a little two much even for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  morning? 6:30AM 021. First thoughts waking up? "i could really use about 4 ... drunk? um, perhaps 044. Been called a tease? no 045. Been beaten up? no ... be when you grow up? i try not to think that far ahead 084. What

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... ethnicity openly and honestly. Don't just play up the school's strengths, but ... presence and I credit her with keeping me up on my peeps. As you can see

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006