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• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... at UCLA's interview weekend, I was lucky to have a faculty member tell ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  "Robotron", poke at their robot. We are helped in the lab by good staff ... Brian and me how to solder, but he is much better at it. Here he is, hard at work soldering. Our robot is round, but not everyone is using

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  end up surfing the internet a little at work. One thing I found today ... accidentally stalking him. Professor Hughes is working at gmunu@mit to make ... the universe at a quantum level. I don't know. I'm an engineer, not a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  . Students have the option of either staying at home/traveling/doing whatever ... opinion, one of the coolest times to be at MIT. By browsing the IAP ... for Cancer Research at the beginning of IAP and continued until the end

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  In 1997, Fabio Sauli invented the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) at ... up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) at MIT have developed a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  's that? Because I got the highest test grade I've gotten at MIT by about ... wonderful end-of-week meal at the appropriately named TGIFriday's. Friday's is ... just visited her at her office and had a little chat about safe sex and

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

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  will play a concert at MIT (for MIT students only, sorry) on Friday night ... , at Morss Hall in MIT's Walker Memorial. Ford International Professor of ... Hijacking of the Global Food Supply CMS Colloquium: Animation at the Beijing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT ... that entry, let's look at the units. Units: 5 - 0 - 7 The units break

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  haven't been keeping up with blogging at all, and I'm really sorry about ... finer points of life at MIT, we sat him down and had him help us with our 18.01 pset. He definitely sat in the suite lounge with us until at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  So I know you're all sitting at home, wondering, "Hey, what's up with ... tests like at MIT?" How did I know, right? I'm just so in tune with what ... review sheet. You take the whole test and you at least attempt to answer

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  . Today, Prof. Richard Schrock, along with researchers in France and at ... to use (stable in air, at normal temperatures and pressures) and ... the folks at the Annals of Improbable Research and hosted by Harvard and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National ... of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a ... Gillis looking on. At left, Shalala's adoring audience. Lloyd Thacker

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  day of classes at MIT! What happened? And why are you dropping physics ... I wrote an entire entry about his lab (I mentioned this at the seminar ... here at MIT, and she forwarded the link to my grandparents. My

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so ... Library of Congress, says Kahle. The collection, available at www ... . [...] While studying at MIT in the 1970s, Kahle says, there were two big ideas

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  week, and back at home, I kept referring to Shirali '05 and Farhan '05 as ... it's bad to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, so late at night when ... "pre-med" track, so you can major in anything at all and have access to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  night, I went out with a few friends for a late night dinner at the Asgard ... one. (Don't try this at home). I decided to run across Mass. Ave with ... Midnight Madness at this restauarant where if you buy a soda you pretty much

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

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . They are all so different and yet you can look at any one of them and say ... Special at Dial-A-Pizza (in Somerville), Walden Pond, the Public Garden, 80's night at ManRay, the way the air smells in the fall, our kickass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT. I arrived at MIT bushy tailed and bright eyed at the prospect of ... Lab at MIT's Center for Cancer Research studying the delivery of small ... create double stranded RNA to "silence" genes. Recently, researchers at MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  tripods to invade Earth. Ebert concludes, at the end of his two-star review ... opinion, I contacted Jessica Banks, a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Computer ... .D candidate at the MIT Media Lab, an expert on robot-legged locomotion, who was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  delicious." Anyway, I think I've analyzed this movie aimed at ten ... check out the delivery of the sixth book at their Coop, so I figured it ... lightning bolt?) said they got it at Curious George. They were also handing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005