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  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  verrry busy. Here's a recap: Last Saturday: Spring Weekend is an annual MIT tradition, complete with: - a performance by a top-notch band (it ... around the world - a Habitat for Humanity event, this year they built walls

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  bandit and posted a mile-by-mile account in this blog entry. It was pretty ... on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky ... threshold of a new world of possibilities, like I could really achieve

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... . :) okay, maybe not... [that's Gullfoss in Iceland] We did a skit at the ... st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it

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

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  The MIT homepage has a great spotlight today about the Institute's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries. :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to avoid my fate as a hopeless goop myself. I'm not being particularly ... is getting his master's in course 6 (EECS) in June, and has accepted a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  got me an answering machine or a "so-and-so isn't home." Regardless, it was pretty fun, and there was a lot of free pizza and stuff to drink ... jump right into French 2 for the next term.) I have a 150-175 word

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.

  

  So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon.

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new year at my friend Jacob's house, as I usually do, and caught up with a bunch of people that I haven't seen since high school. It's a little weird

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of these books have had their residence on my bookshelf for a long time. Some ... , I'm reading. Also, what do you guys recommend? I'm typically a sci

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most ... Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at ... to watch a fellow Techie kick butt! Over, and over, and over again

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 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 ... Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT

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

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine ... bodies. One of our flyers, Ami '06, looks like a leopard because she has so ... learned this weekend is like this stunt, except that the flyer does a back

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  counselors, admissions-related vendors, etc.) descend on a city (Tampa this year) and attend classes and networking sessions. There's a "college fair ... booths (as they would at a normal college fair) and then GC's come around

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  (with some photos, too.) 1.A24: You CAN Get There From Here! This is a ... Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally ... eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in

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

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  ... a new version of you? (Did anyone watch Felicity? These lyrics ... did once I got back was go to Anna's Taqueria and get a burrito. I didn't even think about how much TechCash I had on my MIT Card, but it's a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  --down-to-earth and yet on the cutting-edge with a hint of a retro sensibility. Favorite ... antiques, books, and CDs. Cambridge is a hip, progressive city with the feel of a small town--one of the best places to live on this planet, really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  'm always happy to answer your questions. I'll demonstrate this by answering a ... , and virtually all non-frosh rooms, are singles, making this a non-issue. However, there are a few freshman doubles on every hall. In these, the beds

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a ... can give a more relevant introduction than I could at age 9. My name is still Mollie Burgoon. I am a member of the class of 2006 at the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a ... aired last night. ABC describes it like this: The opportunity of a ... give the winner a college education from a top-rated school of their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005