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• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The implication, of course, is euphemistically known…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  Okay, so tonight we were at Allison’s house and I didn’t take any pictures but I’ll steal some later from Allison’s xanga. Stealing is wrong and if you ever stole…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  Summer Motto #456-1A: Rock the free stuff, always. So following that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New England Aquarium to check out…

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so I’m back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus tomorrow evening. While waiting to…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  Yesterday, I went to Six Flags New England with Ling ’07, Erica ’07, Simon ’04, and Nick. Now, you might think that would be fairly expensive for a one day…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I’ll admit it: I’m stubborn. I like to say that I’m “tenacious”, but what I really mean is that I am set in my ways…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I’m now answering comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn’t resist over in Mollie’s neck…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip inspired by a friend’s wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday, but well…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  I survived moving to my fall room! (I realize this is silly. But moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal-retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor,…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  My dear friend Farhan ’05 (Course 9: Brain & Cognitive Sciences) recently won the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship. Read more about it here (MIT News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Pretty much every day, I remind my friends that “if you come up to Boston, I’ll find you a place to stay and show you around and we’ll all have…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Yesterday, I officially completed the 12-week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  Aha! We have a question! Jon asks “Also, I was wondering (uh oh here’s a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  So I know the entire world has been waiting anxiously for the release of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even throwing a blog…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There’s a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper tomorrow) on a bit of Media Lab research called the Jerk-O-Meter (?!), which comes out…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  Billie Holiday said it best, “Them that’s got shall get, Them that’s not shall lose… God bless the child that’s got his own.” If knowledge is power, then good blogs…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn’t gotten the memo. Although I have been watching…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  After a long vacation in Southeast Asia, I’ll be officially back in the swing of things tomorrow. It will be a little strange to be back (and for so many…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  Browsing Matt’s blog reminded me that I have a blogiversary on the horizon as well. A quick check revealed that I missed it – it was August 6. Ooops. Oh…

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  So there’s this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT; I don’t actually have it and I can’t find it online, but if memory serves me…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005