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• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet ... vegetables don't just grow on trees, people. Ahem.) After dinner, she came to ... stark contrast, I was in marching band and on the quiz team in high school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  Today I am hijacking Laura's entry on tests, because a) it's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ... of the dissociation constant. On 7.06 (Cell Biology) tests last term, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  /brain and cognitive sciences major is that I frequently don't have class on ... have 5.60 on Fridays (although my Tuesdays and Thursdays, um, suck). That ... napping) on Fridays. So this morning, I woke up at 8 as usual; normally I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  continue your career while being around your children more. On another note ... repercussions on the job market. First of all, it is very competitive to find a ... employer would take on by spending a lot of time and money to training you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  this blog in forever, I know you only took that picture on your second ... the first place. (Oops. My advisor and I both messed up on that one ... happened while I was on my way to my advisor's office to get his signature on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  ran on the Marathon Sports treadmill. It's one thing to run on a machine ... me to go run outside on the concrete sidewalk. From waist-up, I was obviously not prepared for this. This was on Boylston, which is a pretty busy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  isn't graded on a curve, and 50/100 is a passing grade. If you're a freshman (and thus on pass/no record grades), and are taking the class in the ... famous Stata Center), the TEAL format offers a more hands-on approach that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... -tired, you know what that means... picture entry! If you're on dialup, you ... White put on this summer. After several hours of taping down old copies

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  workout designed to focus on toning and strengthening while utilizing self ... consist of warm-ups, exercises focusing on isolation and coordina- tion ... American dance. Focus is on fast and rigorous learning, reaction time, and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  . I'm tired just thinking about this. Moving on to....FEE results! The ... are required to take it. You sign up on-line, access the required readings on-line, and submit your essays by email. A few weeks later, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  Heroes," based on local, hometown news articles about students goign off to ... -Recorder, a newspaper focused on the African-American community in Minnesota ... talks with his father on education being equivalent to success. "Before my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  .D candidate at the MIT Media Lab, an expert on robot-legged locomotion, who was featured on the cover of Wired magazine. I guess that advising a film critic on the scientific plausibility of a Steven Spielberg movie isn't quite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for ... on Admissions," presented by Amherst College Dean of Admissions Tom ... 've seen both of them present before on other topics, so I knew to expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  or the Great Dome on the ring bezel. After much debate, the committee ... -piece construction, with MIT and the class year each appearing on a separate shank ... MIT seal and the class year each appearing on a separate shank, flanking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... . When your application pieces are processed, they will be posted on the My ... deadline versus those submitted on the deadline day. The bottom line -- no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  graduates on to highly selective schools, I wasn't really sure of what I was doing. Largely, I applied to the top schools on the east coast that did ... the college of my choosing. On this second and more thorough trip to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  melancholy, sometimes scary trips on the medley of NYC – Boston busses ... of it, but I could only rely on myself to assuage the crushing fear of ... ’m reflecting on almost ten years since I moved to Cambridge as Sufjan and his

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  project you're working on through this program"]UROP[/annotation] meetings ... my research process, as opposed to being stressed on a weekly basis ... much anxiety—I mean, on a physical level—my hands would shake, I’d start

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  world on sea music, and it was an insanely fun class!  At MIT, all ... for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific ... something like 99 bottles of milk on the wall, or The Ants Go Marching (which

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my ... deprivation, by the way. I almost got a migraine on the third night. There were ... focuses on the dialogue in the show. Part II will focus on the on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023