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pictures of the new 5th East kitten on it.
While I am busy in testing hell
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Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?
Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I've been promising you for weeks. I also owe you my post-EA thoughts. Both -
Blog / About Decisions
Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).
you respond to me, be sure to read the post by Dean Marilee Jones on the -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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