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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... to walk our bikes down a steep set of stairs, across a path underneath the bridge, and carry them up a steep set of stairs on the other side

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions ... what you actually came here to get: the results of the EA round. For a ... defer all of the rest to the RA round. A big huge welcome to our newest

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  announcing that it was an "Ashmont and Braintree train." Take a look at this ... now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to/attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  Alfred Wallace, who sent a letter to Darwin describing a similar idea one ... Cold War built right through its center and accompanied by a 150-meter ... percent of it. So, if I were to do a full photo entry on all of Berlin, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... , we climb a tall ladder and stand on a tiny platform, where we get secured into a harness. First, grab the [9 pound] bar with your right hand

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  myself in math, but I think I now deserve a good night's rest. After all ... less than a normal semester... read more at http ... lower than official MIT housing. If you already live in a dorm, chances

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Review Photos from the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair.

  

  & Engineering Fair in Indianapolis, Indiana. On Thursday, we had a reception at ... a busy city intersection; at right, the crowd at the reception. Faye ... , I went out to dinner with a dozen of the 20+ MIT 2010s at Intel ISEF

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  keep intruding upon my blogging time. A big part of my next entry will answer a question I frequently receive: "So now that the class has been ... 't let today end without a brief comment about the waitlist. As you

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  hacking history comes to a close. I, for one, was quite impressed with the ... the impressive media coverage the hack received, along with a photo by ... Times article was accompanied by a comic: The latest update from my email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  AIDS Research Center, a world-renowned biomedical research institute. He ... recipient of a Presidential Medal in 2001." I will post photographs of the poster session once I can steal them from the MIT News Office. I know for a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You Heard It Here First Short Skirt, Long Jacket

  

  Band Party Plus. Each year, they host a big concert in their dining hall where they have a bunch of bands come bring down the house at the lovely ... become the greatest band of all time (well, not quite) but they did make a

  • by Bryan
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a shortage of breathable O2, I've never experienced discrimination as a female ... . The fact that MIT is a science and engineering school, and even

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought I ... : ...not a single person, the entire length of the corridor. It was a bit ... of food we get. Here's a picture of the corner of the selection room

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made ... affection--they all feature sentiments like: Anakin: "To a most powerful ... have my allegiance." C3PO: "To a splendid counterpart!" R2D2: "You can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  The Tech announced yesterday that Anna's Taqueria will be getting a new neighbor this summer - a 24-hour Dunkin' Donuts, right in the ... coffee - yep, I think I could make that a daily event, especially in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story ... upon a time at MIT, Sarah Tabacco was a black-clad, curly ... Tabacco sought to teach organic chemistry in a rapid, compendious, yet still

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time. You see, I've been very ... Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory, a six unit class/team robotics ... periodic lectures in room 35-225. This is a picture from our lecture on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an option... well, here I am on the lab's computer. Science, while a wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  the adventure. I just took a quick trip back to my room so I could grab ... ! What a day. I took some pictures of the kickoff, which I'll post next week. The thrill of solving a puzzle is just awesome. Obviously, I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... Adam had finished a 16.100 (Aerodynamics) lab. We got to Plymouth in time ... movie) and crash into bed early (that 5/3 of a day thing I talked about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005