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• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  So while I like to pretend that I don’t procrastinate sometimes, up until today, I’ve procrastinated about selecting a HASS class for next semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the…

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Zaira, an 11th grade student from Brownsville, Texas (the tip of Texas, by the border), designed this banner. She is considering studying Course 16: Aerospace Engineering in college. Her hobbies…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Geneva, Dinner in Milan Hop on the train and check out some sights leaving France, traversing Switzerland, and entering…

  

  I set out from Paris’ Gare de Lyon to continue my journey using France’s famous TGV (train

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  So this weekend I managed to visit two time zones and five airports. In between the airports and time zones is the real story. A Flying Pig…no joke :^) So…

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different worlds. Actually, it’s a story about going to a water park. But the reason my boyfriend and I…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Name: Mari McQuaid Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions Hometown: Verona, NJ High school: Verona High School College: Tufts University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening with Ruth painting our new fall…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  It’s been a while since my last entry. Right now I’m visiting my mom, stepdad, and four siblings in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be there for two weeks. You know,…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005