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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT undergraduate mathlete extraordinaire Reid Barton, four-time IMO gold medalist and Putnam fellow, has his own entry on Wikipedia. I couldn’t think of anything to blog about…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions prospective students ought to be asking about schools they’re considering, headed off with the questions What is…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  Following last week’s Lunar New Year post, Joanne got a beautiful gift: an origami Evie. The most amazing thing about the piece is just how much it really looks like…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Takeshi Kaga, the flamboyant chairman from Japan’s Iron Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of Les Miserables. If you own the 10th…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for releasing RA decisions online this year. I had a meeting with our tech peeps yesterday and…

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  My dear former floormate Shannon ’05 (who’s still at MIT pursuing her Masters in Course 16: Aero/Astro) held an engagement party last Saturday at MIT, and at first I was…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  With all these applications, it’s tough to find time to blog. There are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to choose from so many great applicants.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  1. Buzz. 2. Hit snooze button. 3. Buzz Buzz. 4. Hit snooze button, again. 5. Buzz Buzz Buzz. 6. Hit snooze button, again. 7. Buzz Buzz Buzz Buzz. 8. Roommate…

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I’m the daughter of a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  My room’s dark, it’s late Monday night, and the January respite from regular term classes has officially come to an end. My glasses could use a cleaning, but at least…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  Taking a break from reading today, I saw Matt’s latest post and had to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I discuss embarking on…

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at MIT. I was…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  I participated in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP) this past week. Though the acronym sounds awfully like UROP, the goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  Hello friends! News updates: IAP is over! This is sad for most people, but happy for me, because I’ll actually be attending FEWER hours of class once the semester starts.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test – Field Experiments in Economics. From what I hear, this class was…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• 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