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• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel Triton, where I am hanging out after my UCSF interview, waiting for the shuttle to take me to SFO…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  After struggling to figure out what to blog about today, I decided to see what it was I wrote about one year ago today: For those of you hoping for…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  So the annual no-problem-set-fest known as IAP really comes to an end today. Mitra mentioned that on Monday, we have registration day, and then the first day of classes is…

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  Ever seen the first few minutes of Legally Blonde? MTV’s reality TV show “Sorority Life”? Read the book “Pledged.” Think sorority girls are bimbos who spend all day having pillow…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Stipe played an ice cream man on one episode of “The Adventures of Pete and Pete.” Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for all your responses to…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Superbowl Discuss.

  

  I am currently a bit overwhelmed with work & application reading, but I’ll return next week with the next Q&A and other new content. In the meantime… Superbowl: discuss. Who…

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  Today, most of the IAP robotics competitions begin to wrap up. They include: 6.186: MasLab 6.270: Autonomous Robot Design Competition 6.370: Robocraft Now the one I’m most familiar with is…

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  So Sam and Mollie have both introduced you to their interesting research projects; it’s my turn! So since sophomore year, I’ve been working in the Griffith Lab which is part…

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  It’s snowing here tonight, so when I got home I decided to curl up on the papasan and catch up on some reading. This weekend, I got so caught up…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song “I Should Be Allowed To Think” by They Might Be Giants begins with the lyrics, “I saw the best minds of my…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? …about the pretty awesome freeware photo editing software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of some commenters, I will have some integration bee sample problems…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Year of the Dog Happy Lunar New Year!

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Evie* and the entire Office of Admissions! *Evie is the dog of Associate Director of Admissions Joanne Cummings, and is my favorite pooch in the…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  I have been so busy lately, and I’ve definitely been neglecting you guys and only writing short updates. This makes me sad. So today I have a feature length entry…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a few…

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  First, some updates: A few people have asked about information on applying to engineering graduate programs at MIT. I am trying to find that information; first I emailed one of…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  Since my earlier post on MIT’s summer programs was linked from the MIT homepage today, I’ve been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the “telethon” event. I probably called fifty or more people, though many of those calls got me an answering machine…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  I just checked off #34 on the list of “101 Things To Do Before You Graduate from MIT”: Visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The drawing class that I’ve…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Milk-producing glands in mammals actually evolved from sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to feed its live-born young, the platypus secretes milk…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006