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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  Blogging the Ring Premiere is a big deal. Like, really, it's a big ... JKim. The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise ... rest of the world. (I kind of do feel like this is sort of a blogging

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  It's been a while. Hi. (This is a long post, but you won't complain ... isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation ... ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a quick exit interview with my professor - and that's it. Done. A beautiful ... incredible things I've had a chance to do and be a part of - mea culpa, mea

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total ... take a good photo of something that's over 360,000 kilometers away on a ... , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final ... counts for pretty much your whole grade. While this is not such a big deal to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Things I have been doing since my last post: -Moving up a floor to a ... :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  To accompany today's entry about MIT summer programs, here is a ... these summer programs as a thing to do "to look good on a college ... students do these programs. Like I said in my earlier entry, a summer of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I'm really enjoying this year's applications; I know that we have a lot of ... . We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of ... lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak ... borrow a small, discreet digital point and shoot of the latest technology

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... , Sarah '08 had a lot of fun climbing them. Getting up was one thing, but ... distinction of having its own dark god, Krotus. He's like a mascot, only cooler

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

    It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... batery failure in a sudden death one-on-one round (a clearly unfair call by ... body of water Brad had promised (signed a legally binding contract) to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... doing laundry is never a problem. The price of 75 cents per machine might seem a bit high, but that doesn't stop frat boys from trekking over to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  I've spent the last two weeks enjoying a nice vacation at my mom ... 'm on campus, I have trouble sleeping more than 8 or 8 and a half hours ... tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  honor society) social chair and a generous invitation from a biochemical ... Memoirs of a Geisha. The paragraph in the program that listed other films ... they performed: A Postcard to Boston (A Hymn to New England) Three Pieces

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  Last night, I attended a concert by the MIT/Wellesley Toons, one of MIT's a cappella groups. Towwards the end of the concert, Lee-Kai '07 ... a 3x3 cube, and at least 8 people volunteered. It was awesome. Here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "This Jesus Must Die" from Superstar really sounds a ... one... ...and although it's a bit unflattering, I still think it's ultimately better for society that they put a picture with me in it on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  hours, and I'm feeling a little guilty. See, it's the MIT biology ... this month, I met a few California kids who told me they were also ... Olympic team, and he gossips about them to me). D-Entry is having a "Bacon

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  's class decided this would be a fun event for the dads, and that's how this whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... and thus I had to avoid Miss April that night. But that's a different

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been ... I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today ... reminded of an article I read a few years back:High schools work to ease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  A few notes from selection: No decisions are yet final. We are still ... announced on the blogs when we mail the decisions.Selection time is a very ... Solomon '06 did stop by to drop off a copy of the new CD by Resonance, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005