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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... kept detailed track of my sleep patterns for almost three years now. I ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was

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

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  . Awkward situations in "Shopgirl" arise from Jeremy begging for a goodnight ... stalking. They meet for dinner, where conversation is forced and trite, and ... a dump, travels around with a mediocre band for a few months, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... , so it's Wednesday, I just printed out my 9.15 paper, and I'm done for ... department, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the Picower

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  flakes became pretty big and fell for a couple of hours. Unfortunately, it ... month, yay for IAP). - The record low for November is 8 degrees and the ... average snowfall for the entire month of January is 13.5 inches! So, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 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 other Bakerites made this huge sign to

  • 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…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary). Well, as far as MIT goes, I don't think that's true. For one thing, we ... recitation is not the person lecturing. For instance, I have 5.60 lecture three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  idea was that??) (Note: to look up the link for 5.60, I had to go to the ... find Chemistry in the C's rather than the F's -- for five, the chemistry ... -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  /28). In the middle of that I head down to Tampa for the NACAC Conference ... info session is followed by a campus tour, so we can take for granted ... shouldn't come - you'll still get to meet the alumni interviewers for your

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Arthur Mattuck) 8.012: Physics I (often referred to as "Physics for ... Film Experience (a very good choice for a HASS elective) 8.S67 ... soon: a more in-depth look at freshman advising seminars. For more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play ... expensive ($48? for a throw pillow?), and c) Adam would hate. I headed back ... for snickerdoodles at LaVerde's, and they needed to get baked -- I find

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  gained international recognition for discovering three of the largest known ... for Undergraduates, Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy ... educational and research background of MIT for giving her this opportunity

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  power brokers. For some time now I've been intrigued by all forms of ... College Admissions. I've resisted jumping into the fray until now for one ... is room for one more raspy and slightly nasal New York voice. Can we

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to mathematical concepts as "puppies." "Alright, so then we factor this puppy and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc. For example, last week, some people constructed the following to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  blogger. I've been following Matt's blog for several months now, and if you ... Matt through mutual friends and frequently drop into his office for ... (Math) classes than I need for my major, but saying that I dabble in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  coming home with 19 pounds of salmon. Now for all you physics people

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  my old Baker House housemate, who was a Sequence Supervisor for special ... honor of Douglas Adams reads, "So long and thanks for all the wit," hung ... ," is signed "Rebel Scum." A dozen donuts were also left at the scene for

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

  New York, New York

  

  assessments for entering M.I.T. freshmen. He fears that the new 25-minute SAT essay test that started in March - and will be given for the second time ... president for research. "It's one basic writing skill. If that's all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  and also the Orientation 2005 site. Thanks to Ann's blog for drawing our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party. Here's the description I just submitted to the events crew: You've spent the last 6 months

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005