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  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
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of ’10 as I possibly could. And it…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  Tonight’s episode of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel will show the Archimedes Death Ray episode, done in conjunction with students from MIT’s 2.009: Product Engineering Processes. Definitely worth checking out…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT — MITES, RSI, and WTP — have their application deadlines next week. All three are open exclusively to high school juniors.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  I’m so jet-lagged! And completely slap-happy! Yayyyy! Today’s events: 6:45 AM — Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane, since it wasn’t a very full flight…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Human females are the second-largest female primate, but Human males are only the third-largest male primate. “Wait… you’re Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?” As promised,…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006