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  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  most excited about was seeing a building designed by Frank O. Gehry. Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don't forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." Ling: "I don't think that you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  . On the lab front, this week I started writing a paper about the project I've been doing for the past year and a half. I started with the ... , because he's the boss. And he pays my salary. I'm going to finish up a few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... .022 textbook made a cameo in Spiderman 2. 4. One thing that did bother me was ... Juggernaut, b****!" Also, there was a preview for Snakes on a Plane. Between

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... almost entirely on tests... so basically I have three tests, a pset, and possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special ... favorite '09 prefrosh and now he's a full-blown MIT student, workin' the CPW reg desk. Very cool. It wouldn't be a good entry without a picture of

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  a newly-bought laptop, it has already been rendered obsolete. Well, I'm not writing another entry. Ha! So, let's turn this into a learning ... their pet fish. In this case, whereas Mitra has provided a professional

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  Center for Biomedical Research. So I'm a) alleviating boredom, b) avoiding ... hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to rejoice about an incident that happened yesterday. So I had a test today in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  , darn it. Being a biology major and dataphile and Excel-lover, I have ... wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... like "hey, that sounds like a good idea" and my sleep statistics Excel

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

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  I grew up in Elgin, IL and I'm a huge White Sox fan (sorry Astro fans ... parents and brother. The White Sox haven't been in a World Series since 1959 and haven't won a World Series since 1917 so I figured I had to take

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  in a while. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:21:31 -0400 [03:21:31 PM EDT ... announce each session either the day of or the day before, and have a sign ... join a sorority or some kind of crazily well-funded student organization

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  probably at least dimly aware that I'm a cheerleader, I never write anything ... there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair days. Seriously.) A few weeks ago, the cheerleaders recruited new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how ... before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling ... I certainly learned a lot from Dean Khoury's talk with us. For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... ". But it's summer now, and, after walking a mile to lab, I mostly sit and ... to stay in shape so that when he careens down a mountain on glare ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make Your Own Wand" booth and they also had a word scramble. The one that gave

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  Let's start this one with a picture. So, we went to see the weekly ... everything below my waist was just a little bit nippy. But actually, I don ... a Rocky Horror virgin--that is, she'd never seen a live production

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  May 2 postmark deadline, is anyone still making a decision? If so, what ... a couple responses, including from "estelphoenix," who wrote: I have five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading period, culminating with a ceremonious shave on mailing day in March. Only

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  , you should know that at MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection ... this year. The only thing we ask that you send in is a midyear grade ... if you can still send in music or art or a response or Question 13, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  . There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in everyday life after playing the game for a while. I remember I had trouble ... mind. But now it’s gone and I love tetris!  A movie (“Tetris”) also came

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024