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• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  The blogfathers in the admissions office requested a while back that we bloggers do some work on presenting our living groups to you. For reasons that are still unclear, the…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity’s chef gets a summer vacation, I’m morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot dogs as a college student,…

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  Hello all! I’ve been a horrible blogger, please forgive, but I have amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I’ll send you one back. I assume…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. After some short training on the ground, we climb a…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  This week has been mostly dedicated to lab and cooking, since that’s mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly’s with Mark ’07…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of “Go argentina!” observed…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  I did something today that I had previously sworn I would never do. I joined College Confidential. I finally decided that, no matter how much a lot of the stuff…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PrimeShooter An addictive factoring game.

  

  My friend Shefali ’04 sent me a link to an addictive math nerd video game which actually relates to the name of this very blog. It’s like factoring Tetris! Check…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  Okay, so I agree that it’s been far too long since my last update. I’ve been dealing with work issues, and have been in California for the last week and…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It’s so nice to be graduated — I can make lists of things that I’ve done and call them blog entries! Hooray! I know a lot of people are thinking…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  My old Baker House dormmate, Ed Miller ’00 (a.k.a. “Ed Miller, Noted Poker Authority”), will be on the Bravo reality television show “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.” Yes, tonight…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don’t make mistakes; we just create new…

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The town of Nice was originally a Greek settlement named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work calendar, Thursday was “Fronleichnam,” or…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  Oh, it’s been such a good weekend. Friday I went into the lab for a short day which included transfecting some rat hippocampal neurons in culture, developing four Western blots,…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  My Mets are seriously kicking some you-know-what lately. I love it. Omar Minaya is my hero. =D Simone said: now that freshman year is over, how would you describe your…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked: 1. How large are the individual rooms in a frat house(or in your case)? 2. Is it…

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Episode 7 of MIT’s video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include Commencement and MIDAS (a.k.a. the party button). Check it out. Marsha Bolton hosts this episode, and it features…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  The World Cup Challenge was a lot of fun! No one got a perfect score, but on the whole, people did pretty well. Below are the results, with the name…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ecosystems And Web Sites A science question & general check-in.

  

  This is really, really cool. (Link stolen shamelessly from Riley.) Except tell me, you science experts – how does an ecosystem with “fantastic biodiversity” survive for five million years without…

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy… and there are tons of awesome TV shows to watch. Adam and I have been eagerly awaiting the season premieres of The 4400 and…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006