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Blog / About Decisions
Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.
architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... that some of you have not heard from your host. Do not worry. I assure you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while -
Blog / MIT Life
Saturday at the water park
off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different ... family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond
"lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is
microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment ... of the more senior lab members. Morgan's lab is primarily concerned ... sends an electrical signal to its end which causes little packets of -
Blog / MIT Life
Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.
're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... leave my computer. In Next, wings are halves of floors, either the East or ... help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly -
Blog / Admissions
Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.
[email protected] To Members of the MIT Community: Yesterday's tragic events at Virginia Tech have shocked and saddened all of us. We offer MIT's condolences to ... All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I -
Blog / Majors & Minors
What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte
price of the same amount that MITechnology students pay for their degrees ... here are interested all kinds of different fields, from anime to manga ... here follow the path of least resistance and attend the Massachusetts -
Blog / Athletics
Photophobic
As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.
issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some -
Blog / IAP
Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute
I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... great time to bond with teammates (and improve our rowing of course). It -
Blog / Admissions
MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.
LONG / Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE - Molly Pounds' love of horses ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I -
Blog / Events
Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.
of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical..." Hello readers. I've had an overwhelming number of requests for sample problems ... in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long -
Blog / Academics & Research
Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.
. These were Masters students working as part of their degree. Laura ... program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to -
Blog / MIT Life
Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…
. Sure enough... Eng holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Rhode ... coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I'm MIT's biggest fan of reality ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can -
Blog / Academics & Research
Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)
offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don't Doonesbury vote-bomb me though! A new class will be offered by the Economics Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended -
Blog / About Decisions
Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.
The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you ... , we had a record-high percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater -
Blog / MIT Life
Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…
’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did -
Blog / MIT Life
Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time
, because of the bend in the road, I hit it at about a 45 degree angle.   ... vehicle at a 45 degree relative to the forward motion of that vehicle, at ... As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)
When I got my first guitar at age 3, I immediately began dreaming of ... to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang