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• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of questions about Residence-Based Advising (RBA). Bryan wrote a great entry about his experiences with a…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice cream. I’m not surprised. As you may have learned from an old entry by Bryan, Boston has some of the world’s…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest issue of Newsweek about the future of America’s global leadership. It begins: Can the United States…

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? On keyboards in German internet cafes, the y and z keys are switched. Okay, I just hit 31 minutes on this computer, so I figured I should…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Idiots! MIT hacked the poll! "MIT won in a landslide!"

  

  Today’s Doonesbury…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  Where in the world is Melis? Clues: laundry is free, my room is a single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home.…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  Name: Jonathan Lii Hometown: Manhasset, NY Degrees and Minor: 18 and 15 with a minor in 14 [in layman’s terms: a double major in Mathematics and Management, and a minor…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  Name: Mollie Burgoon Hometown: Pickerington, Ohio (a two-horse town near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course 9) What’s next: Entering the Biological and Biomedical Sciences…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  Today begins a weeklong event at MIT called Senior Week. During Senior Week, we celebrate the graduating class and provide them with their final week of excitement at MIT. Events…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  I am just full of sweetness and light today. Lab-related good news So the presentation that I was making Photoshop slides for last time? I finished it, and gave it…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  In response to my last entry, Drew asked: “So, how important is it, then, for us to know what dorm we want to be our temp?” Omar ’10 answered: “Drew,…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  ‘stin asked, “can you talk about the residence-based advising programs and freshman advising/seminars? When do you choose your classes?” I’ll answer the second question, first. For upperclassmen, they chose their…

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I’ll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: “This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry, but I was…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.

  

  Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to take 11.025J D-Lab: Development, since I have studied “issues of international development” from an economic perspective…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 6 A new video podcast.

  

  Episode 6 of MIT’s video podcast ZigZag is available today. Stories include highlights from this year’s 2.007 Robotics Competition, the “seeing machine”, and the awesome Disco Dance Floor (!). Check…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the world wide web. (That sentence alone is pretty awesome. But I digress.)…

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of “standing cafes” in Germany was apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have at least three bathrooms. Hey there.…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Vindicated! And the summer of FREEdom begins. (Pictures added)

  

  I’m in Boston until the end of next week for some meetings for the Committee on Academic Performance, but guess what, NO PROBLEM SETS! And thus, when you don’t have…

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  It was a nice, relaxing 3-day weekend here. Summer has arrived in Boston. Now, after a lull in posting over the holiday and during yesterday’s Admissions staff retreat, here’s another…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  Warning: My life is so not interesting right now. We’re all moved into the apartment, and have all kinds of grownup things like furniture, lightbulbs, and cleaning supplies under the…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006