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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged about last week no longer exist. Yay, happy dance: (Devin ’13 showed me this video a while back…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  One thing you may have missed in the site switchover is the fact that we updated our admissions statistics and freshman class profile pages to the newest data from this…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

    Last week, MISTI-China interns in Beijing welcomed Malgorzata Hedderick (Associate Dean of MIT Undergraduate Education), Melanie Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career Development) and Sean…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I’d say that MIT offers a merciless crash course in time management.  You’ve got tons of things to do, as well as even more things that you…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for the first time; I drove over 400 miles across several state lines; I rented my…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  What’s that? You think the celebrations ended with the Toast to Tech? Pull yourself out from under that rock. I’m not talking about that silly little shindig; I’m talking about…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they have multiple courses. Well, the soup was yummy and the fish was good, and then they…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  Life after college is scary.  I can’t believe the time has come when I have to think about the real world.  Things like where to live, what to eat and…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  Tomorrow night, the final Harry Potter movie will be relased.  Here in Boston, the two biggest movie theaters, the Boston Common 19 and Fenway 13 multiplexes, have sold out more…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the moment. In the past three days, three separate experiments have gone wrong at lab. The procedures involved in…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills you’ll use. The MIT Career Development Center collects statistics on the number of students who got their job through networking, on-campus recruiting,…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  My office is currently under serious reconstruction. New walls, new doors, new carpets, new paint, and everything. Mikey’s gone on vacation, so, unbeknownst to him, I’m commandeered his office, kicked…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  I discovered it was rather impossible to make any logical connection between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I gave up. Which means you…

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working for the…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  I don’t watch much TV anymore and I’m a little behind when it comes to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for facebook and my…

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  So while Rachel has been Facebooking, Jenny has been getting into poopy situations, and Anna has been dancing the night away in Cambridge, I’ve been going on to Facebook, enjoying…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  Hundreds of Facebookers united behind one banner and under several signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the annual Pride Parade! We weren’t the only techies…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  I saw this article about MIT folks Jessica Rosenkrantz ’05 and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg on TechNewsDaily recently and thought it was pretty neat… Nervous Systems jewelry and accessories began with a…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new room: Hello, Charles River and New House :) I’m living in MacGregor, one of the…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns Hopkins students interning in Beijing. This was my first opportunity to meet other interns…as well the…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011