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• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  gripped Niger in 2005. After taking a few classes at MIT that focused on ID ... foremost authorities on poverty, as well as documentary screenings and ... one billion people live in extreme poverty (living on less than $1 a day

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  together into one photo entry so I can move on with my blogging life (and ... as good as Lulu's, but American Idol is on and Nicole Tranquillo ... he untags pictures of himself on facebook in which he thinks he looks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  saw how easily preventable diseases placed a tragic burden on society ... efficacy of its health interventions, to create reports on disease incidence ... other NGO's working on HIV-AIDS prevention in Bangalore and I helped train

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  , TERRIBLE showers. They have absolutely no pressure, so the water dribbles on ... problem. Guys on my hall make arrangements to stay at their fraternities ... . The morning finals began, specifically on the morning of my 8.01 final

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  during the afternoons, taking The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans on ... . But more on those when we get closer to reg day. In other news, I ... identify ourselves by our campus-wide login names on secure sites to do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  biggest was the general explosion of user-created on-line content. You ... there for anyone to listen to. I know I have Ben's band on my iPod. =P ... who felt disenfranchised by their government were able to turn on a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  & Grad School)' section; check it out for further reading on this topic ... have the GRE on Saturday. So I intended to study the entire flight ... , Spaghetti Warehouse. Me and my brothers. The little one on the far left is

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... , members of the MIT Varsity Football Team have gone on to such accolades as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  won't be embarassed posting pictures of it on the Internet), this is ... -Conner Rex events and worked a couple of shifts on the ambulance as well. Now ... of them, so I'll fill you in on the details later. Right now, I want to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , you need to learn how to fall flat on your face. Despite the best ... chunk of the day to get to the store and back on the T. I will note ... than happy to take a Target trip on a Saturday or something. My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  focus on medicine, with a minor in Japanese. He also plans to take part in ... Club, which focuses on community service projects, and was vice president ... 2 percent on IQ tests, and has received numerous academic awards. He

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  in area 05:32 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 By NICO PLACINO / The ... at MIT. "I found that the admissions results didn't depend on how many ... on the SAT," he said. "I believe that the most important determination

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  ,000 scholarship and goes on to the national competition, said Clarissa Sandoval ... regional one. She entered after learning about the competition on the ... Flowers last year because they felt not enough emphasis was placed on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  take a look at it yourself and let me know what you think! On a side ... Eric Lander. Check out Wikipedia for more information on how he was ... information. Basically, Lander exerted pressure on Francis Collins and others to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  than you ever had before. There's a heavy focus on experimental ... know of at MIT, at least for undergrads (I'm not sure if there's any on ... cellular basis of a lot of brain activities, with a lot of focus on learning

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  the regulars have insisted on calling me Nance Nance Revolution (NNR ... those who missed the festivities, we kicked off CPW with two receptions on ... Education) and Wes Harris (Department Head of Aero/Astro) - lit the crowd on

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  person. The fabled Weather Machine did its job on Thursday, so at least you ... welcome ceremony on Thursday night -- the "top 10-ish reasons to come to MIT ... effort -- go knock on their door, send an email, go chat with the secretary

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  in 2 years, in order to reduce the financial hardship on his family. As ... importance of the program. Ok, moving on from that brief commercial ... questions about trades and acquisition, I asked him to elaborate on his UROP

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  year. There are TONS of things going on around campus, and you are free ... , which eats up most of my time. But there are plenty of things going on at night and on weekends that I would be able to attend. Plus, not all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  The Nance Effect has become a true on-line community. What does that ... that this blog be a conduit for useful tips on the admissions process for ... quote me or reference The Nance Effect on your personal blogs. I am

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006