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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  Yay, you guys asked me questions! And now, I will try to answer them. Timur Sahin asks, “Forget admissions, housing, et al. Where do you see your MIT education taking…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  Friday night was Burton 3rd’s “Anything But Clothes” party, which is exactly what it sounds like. I personally had no intention of going, but I knew two of my best…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT overnight program. Be sure to sign up early and sign up often, to increase your chances of…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), which is located just down the road from MIT! I pass this spiffy new building every…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  Okay, so it’s really 52, but who’s counting? So far I’ve been fairly serious with my entries about the college admissions process. I think that it’s time for me to…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  Well, Parents Weekend was last weekend, but my mom is unconventional (read: cheap; there were no cheap tickets from Columbus to Boston last weekend) and decided to create her own…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I’d like to do is to blog every day ’til eternity passes away, just to share them with…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  Kidding about the annual part. :-) Catching up with my blog comments… finally! ———————— Shikhar wrote: “I am a bit confused regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to…

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  Each Wednesday, The Weekly Dig (my favorite rag) hits the newsstands. It’s generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage with a healthy dose of comedy thrown in.…

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  The field hockey team is doing awesome this year, (The Tech even wrote an article about us breaking records!) but when we lose, we lose spectacularly. Like last night, we…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  I’m often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should not send supplemental material unless the application did not sufficiently show…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  Hey, cool, my column’s in the Tech! See? My column was a response to Ruth ’07’s column from last week. Two people complimented me on my column earlier today. One…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  A couple days ago, I received an email from a blog reader who asked me, “Isn’t MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have fun?”…

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I’ve been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn is a wonderful…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab space in the gorgeous new building, but it’s taking longer to get the lab up…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  Saturday/Sunday was the famous MIT Press Bookstore loading dock sale. Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so they’re sold for drastically reduced…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  (Note: to everyone who has emailed or commented with questions, I got your messages! I will reply in detail soon. Thanks!) This has been a busy week. Yeah, there were…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  I’ve had some great conversations over the past few weeks with folks in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Richard Rusczyk…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  Posthumous isn’t the right word, but it’s among my favorite in the English language… and I’m so dedicated to you, gentle reader, that I would indeed write a posthumous entry…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  The return of the puzzles. Try your hand at this one. An entry about the three day week that should have been ten days long is forthcoming. This puzzle is…

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005