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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  notes, and the tests in that class have a heavy emphasis on the nitty ... TA waves at me, says "Bye-bye!", and points to the board, on which is ... papers (mine was on dopamine receptor genetics) and doing well on the first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  During our Independent Activities Period (IAP), essentially most of January -- the intermediate period between winter break and the spring semester -- numerous for-credit classes are on offer. The full first semester

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  this on the Part 1. Where are you from -- a big city? a rural farming ... to write on your behalf usually write very enthusiastically about you ... applications have been evaluated. That part of the process comes later on, more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin and I drop it off the Green Building which is 295 ft, how far will the

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  excellence in teaching, with a focus on creating experiential learning ... wrote two unique computer games that entertain the person exercising on ... "Difficulty Management System" (DMS)" iQUARIUM "A hands-on, student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 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…

  

  most precipitation on average occurs in November. - The lowest ... normal in Maine, but a degree or two colder than normal elsewhere, on ... snowstorms in mid-December and the first half of March." - Last year, on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  Syracuse from a Roman siege by training a mirror (aka Death Ray) on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  students for the purpose of exploring math. On the Saturday morning that I ... in on a high school math class taught by Zuming Feng. Dr. Feng is the ... interactive. The problems presented on this day were well beyond the level we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  4 8 15 16 23 42 If you already know what those numbers mean, this entry is for you.

  

  official site and click on the bar code at the bottom. When prompted, type in

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  strong that I felt the need to express it in an avant-garde photomosaic on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  cultures pieces of tissue in situ. Bryan has been working on two aspects of ... working on this project over the summer, to further characterize the device and examine how changing certain values on the device affect the protein

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  ?" Unfortunately, I had no such luck and ended up leaving a message on an answering

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  something short about the last few entries' comments on my blog. (5.60 is ... department number. Who needs sleep? Me!) First, about the football game on ... -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  when, while working on the first problem set, I had a lightbulb moment on ... , who did so much work on the Human Genome Project that Time magazine ... with a focus on (what else?) genetics. What I really want to talk about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . So they took all of the money that they would have spent on the kids ... on the road. It's sortof a lunch/dinner combo thing in the late ... eating habits on the road and discovering that most of them share this

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair ... makeup on and showed up at the gym an hour and a half early. After running ... . Some of the cheerleading alums came back to watch the game and cheer on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... ; Environmental Engineering professor Rafael Bras on the radio talking about levees ... possibility that nature will trump us." Also while perusing the news on the Web

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  MIT Admissions home page] All []s represents edits to this entry made on ... the test that makes you look best. Q. What score should I get on the ... will reach us on time without rushing). If you are applying for Regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  walked in to find this on the chalkboard:

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

  Nightswimming

  

  nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden ... was in got lost on the way there, so by the time we parked, the other groups had already gone on to the pond. And none of us really knew the way

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005