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• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  grown since college, colleges are changing and growing." So, current MIT ... better suited your personality? To be honest, during my interview for MIT ... open. I went on very few tours, though I did tour MIT, and I think I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals! Finals are here!

  

  I'm currently studying for what might turn out to be my last ever final exams at MIT. Monday: 2.006 - Thermal Fluids Engineering II Update ... 'd like to see what an MIT final exam is like, let me know, and I can post a

  • by Bryan
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Thursday

  

  Sorry, things have been hectic lately, plus my knees really hurt. Tomorrow: 10:00-4:00 — Earth Day 10:30-12:00 — 14.64: Labor Economics class 12:00-1:00 — economic lunch with Janet ’06 4:00-5:00…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk about the game: When: 5:30 pm this Friday (4/21) Where: Dining room of

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  indicates the MIT Weather Machine is gearing up for Campus Preview Weekend

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  Two groups are hosting pi celebrations: This **Tuesday, 3/14, at 6pm in room 2-102** the UMA (undergraduate math association) will be holding the following festivities in honor of pi day:…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  we had the opportunity to open our house to the MIT community. The ... students in attendance! Background: There are five sororities at MIT, four ... house used to be a doctor's office and home, until MIT scooped it up a few

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix Some quick updates.

  

  with financial aid tracking built into MyMIT. In the meantime, please feel free to contact my office by email at finaid(at)mit(dot)edu or by

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  to be up super early to go to drill sessions for MIT-EMS. I knew it was ... hack: This poster is a spoof on The Evolving MIT Campus, the name given ... of MIT." The spoof poster claims that the latest phase of the project

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  interests and sophomore Jugal Shah is living proof of MIT's success. Jugal is ... subsequently irradiated with a neutron beam at the MIT Nuclear Reactor. Next, the ... , since it still has a few points which could use improvement. The MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do ... it is possible to get an adequate amount of sleep at MIT, as long as ... their best work. You're welcome to do that too. Lots of people at MIT are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin and I drop…

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  On Saturday, it snowed!! On Sunday, the sun was shining. Go figure. And now, onto the non-meteorological information (say it, don’t spray it?). Early this morning, some friends and I…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band's coveted SPAM scholarship. As those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 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 / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  So I can’t take an ounce of credit for this artistic endeavor, but I will applaud it’s shear awesomeness. So this weekend my friends Diana, Yonas, Chris, Tom, Christi, and…

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  ). Well, as far as MIT goes, I don't think that's true. For one thing, we ... common data set, over 60% of the classes at MIT have 19 people or fewer ... 4000 undergrads in 30 degree-granting programs, MIT is a small world. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... learn to walk after about 600 steps. Ming came to MIT with a strong ... offered the position. Her mentor, Russell Tedrake, was an MIT Computer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  I'm spending some time at MIT seeing friends. I've been on the east coast for about a week seeing family and will be gone for the next week as well, so if you're wondering where I went, I've simply been on the go

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  greatest MIT blog ever. But, hey, "Frasier" won like five Emmies, right? I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005