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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The ... drinks at the launch party, leap into the cars and head for Dover. Once we ... of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  , Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined ... meant, and I have a Monday class at 9:30 in the morning, which is early by MIT standards. Two things happened at almost exactly the same time to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  Kenna, Globe Correspondent | April 10, 2006 Undergraduate Mark Cote at MIT ... researcher at the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, has an impressive list of ... didn't know if there was a wind tunnel at MIT, but if there was, I wanted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... can begin. Of course, all 483 or whatever events that people have at ... like dead turkeys, underwater flame drills, and booby-trapped reactors at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... , restaurants, and salons (read: girly girl paradise). I bought a cute skirt at Anthropologie and some candy for Adam at Sugar Heaven, his favorite candy store

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  your first academic love." As for teaching science at the precollege level, salaries and working conditions are even more dismal. Students at ... , is a senior majoring in chemistry at Princeton, but when recruiters

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  was particularly boisterous at this weeks game, and I'm sure that our ... tremendously violent sport even at the MIT level; even from our vantage point ... , the cultural houses at MIT used to be in Burton-Conner, and Conner 2 was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to ... successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While ... president of which club next year... and my friends and I are looking at our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... at UCLA's interview weekend, I was lucky to have a faculty member tell ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  "Robotron", poke at their robot. We are helped in the lab by good staff ... Brian and me how to solder, but he is much better at it. Here he is, hard at work soldering. Our robot is round, but not everyone is using

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  end up surfing the internet a little at work. One thing I found today ... accidentally stalking him. Professor Hughes is working at gmunu@mit to make ... the universe at a quantum level. I don't know. I'm an engineer, not a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  . Students have the option of either staying at home/traveling/doing whatever ... opinion, one of the coolest times to be at MIT. By browsing the IAP ... for Cancer Research at the beginning of IAP and continued until the end

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  In 1997, Fabio Sauli invented the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) at ... up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) at MIT have developed a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  's that? Because I got the highest test grade I've gotten at MIT by about ... wonderful end-of-week meal at the appropriately named TGIFriday's. Friday's is ... just visited her at her office and had a little chat about safe sex and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  will play a concert at MIT (for MIT students only, sorry) on Friday night ... , at Morss Hall in MIT's Walker Memorial. Ford International Professor of ... Hijacking of the Global Food Supply CMS Colloquium: Animation at the Beijing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT ... that entry, let's look at the units. Units: 5 - 0 - 7 The units break

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  haven't been keeping up with blogging at all, and I'm really sorry about ... finer points of life at MIT, we sat him down and had him help us with our 18.01 pset. He definitely sat in the suite lounge with us until at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  So I know you're all sitting at home, wondering, "Hey, what's up with ... tests like at MIT?" How did I know, right? I'm just so in tune with what ... review sheet. You take the whole test and you at least attempt to answer

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

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  . Today, Prof. Richard Schrock, along with researchers in France and at ... to use (stable in air, at normal temperatures and pressures) and ... the folks at the Annals of Improbable Research and hosted by Harvard and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National ... of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a ... Gillis looking on. At left, Shalala's adoring audience. Lloyd Thacker

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005