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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story ... upon a time at MIT, Sarah Tabacco was a black-clad, curly ... Tabacco sought to teach organic chemistry in a rapid, compendious, yet still

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time. You see, I've been very ... Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory, a six unit class/team robotics ... periodic lectures in room 35-225. This is a picture from our lecture on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an option... well, here I am on the lab's computer. Science, while a wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  the adventure. I just took a quick trip back to my room so I could grab ... ! What a day. I took some pictures of the kickoff, which I'll post next week. The thrill of solving a puzzle is just awesome. Obviously, I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... Adam had finished a 16.100 (Aerodynamics) lab. We got to Plymouth in time ... movie) and crash into bed early (that 5/3 of a day thing I talked about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.

  

  witness to the ultimate showdown between Turkey and Spam. Despite a two ... . Not quite as environmentally-friendly, but probably a little more ... The Engineers": An artist and an Engineer had found a gallon can. Said

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of ... out... Friday night Sam and Becky and I walked into Boston to have a ... . Why? Because it comes with a side of mashed potatoes. You just can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10.302: Transport Processes homework. I have a busload to do this weekend and I ... to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving ... expression on her face -- she obviously is a fruitarian. (I suppose ... carved the general form of a regression equation. James '08 thinks he

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  , for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier ... something... Being a blogger is a lot of fun. People (like Noah '09 ... 've thought I'd be doing my homework with a blogger?" Anyway. On to Woodie

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  So REX or Residence Exploration began on Sunday afternoon with a ... for their own contraption. Sunday night, East Campus threw a party. Some highlights of the event: - spaghetti wrestling - a human hamster

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all have a great time." However, still, it's one of those things that I never ... baked them a cake. Unfortunately, I had turkey carcasses to attend to at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana ... their Star Wars exhibit. Just a couple photos from the Museum that I was ... night, I went out with a few friends for a late night dinner at the Asgard

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 'm pretty excited about all of those places. Should be a great trip. While I'm away, Ben will be posting for me a number of blog entries I've pre

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  Mmm, it's a hot one today (93oF, or 38.9oC for those of you who use a ... of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system ... .) Katharine asked a great set of questions in my last entry about the bio

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  There's a story from the MIT News Office today about my friend Joanne ... as Freshman Class Vice President. After graduating in 2003 with a degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management

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

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... year. Our yield was simply too high - unprecedented, as a matter of fact ... convinced that we'd have to admit at least a few from the waitlist. I was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts ... -buying. RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it, and stages ... a ring committee consisting of members from the classes of 1930, 1931

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

  The mail, and more

  

  've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... MIT Tracking System, though this could take upwards of a week. We make no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  Kravitz For all you anime fans, a Boston Globe article about the Anime Club ... most popular teacher at MIT, always wears a tuxedo to his final 3.091 lecture and always concludes with a discussion of the chemistry of Champagne

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004