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  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  Today is the beginning of IAP! IAP, or the Independent Activities Period, is a special four-week mini-term full of interesting, fun and ... Washington, DC and Middle Eastern Belly Dancing. One of IAP's most exciting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  consumption of an immeasurable amount of calories. (OK, Dad, I know you hate when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at Truly Jorg's Patisserie in Kenmore Square, which had some of the coolest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  As promised, a detailed recount of Bryan's Wednesday. 7:45 AM: Alarm ... minutes. I need one of these. 8:05 - 8:17 AM: Shower. 8:18 - 8:27 AM ... :28 - 8:40 AM: Breakfast made to order, the wonders of having your own chef

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  of building 2?" "I don't know, I dont think milk vending machines are ... -mail from Maxine, president of MIT's chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, which I'm not even really a member of. From: Maxine Date

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  First of all, a big thank you to everyone who replied to my request ... second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in ... to show the typical setup, furniture, and layout of a mix of rooms

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... , I was having a lovely dinner of weinerschnitzel (no, really) this ... talking about the leader of the Catholic religion and not a can of beer. So

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

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that we're all apparently busy out of our heads with schoolwork and the fact that many of us actually do significant extracurricular stuff. Two things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super ... process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply ... that approximately one-third of all of the students we admitted would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  these things! One of the questions was "What is the more common name for ... portrait of my UROP as a young man, but I got so involved writing the stream-of ... almost died in Boston traffic. Note the lack of a shoe on Kim '09. Kim is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of ... Sadoway. Speaking of Professor Sadoway, there was a nice article about him ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this ... , just to give you an idea how a few of my friends and I are spending our ... (brain and cognitive sciences) 7.27, Principles of Human Disease. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 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.

  

  sticky. Of course, this left behind all of that gross duct tape residue ... , so I put some on. The first piece went on kind of lopsided, so I pulled it off...and off came all of the sticky duct tape residue with it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  I'm sure most of you are enjoying the holiday season with your ... of the burdens of adjustment and culture shock. I've been busy ... various personal and professional goals. And I've been getting a lot of rest

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  ...the number of semesters completed at MIT. So today, I waved ... fall out of the sky and WEBSIS doesn't let you pick your own grades, you ... hardest final exam of my life. The concepts in the class are very

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  that refreshing. For some reason, instead of giving proportionally less ... reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it due earlier. I am not a huge fan of this logic, as it ends up feeling

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

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  part of the week. "Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd..." MIT Musical ... where most of the action took place. Surgeon General's Warning: This musical is not for the weak stomached. It involves mild acts of cannibalism

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... doors. Here is the first glimpse you get of the Lego Learning Lab: And

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  of astronauts by creating new spacecrafts that generate artificial gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure ... environment by using a centrifuge that consisted of a two meter bed that a test

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is ... keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So ... throughput evaluation of drugs under development by simulating a liver through

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005