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• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  for providing their take on the Bono article? And now, your regularly ... + B[ono] + MIT = progress for the poor This must be the kind of thing ... 's certainly an honor for me to be part of an equation with Bono. I also picked

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say that I will probably not be posting anything of substance here until at least Wednesday or Thursday, after my finals are done. I have been tooling

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  Stay tuned for an entry on the phenomenal Handel scholar Professor Ellen Harris, whom I heard speak on Saturday night. Basically, I attended a Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honors Society) dinner (courtesy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  Center for Biomedical Research. So I'm a) alleviating boredom, b) avoiding ... which are probably consumed by watching for your friendly neighborhood ... hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... rolls for breakfast. As I'm sure you know, these go very well with milk ... '07 all came by to ask for my signature on their nomination forms. (They

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... kept detailed track of my sleep patterns for almost three years now. I ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  . Awkward situations in "Shopgirl" arise from Jeremy begging for a goodnight ... stalking. They meet for dinner, where conversation is forced and trite, and ... a dump, travels around with a mediocre band for a few months, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... , so it's Wednesday, I just printed out my 9.15 paper, and I'm done for ... department, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the Picower

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  flakes became pretty big and fell for a couple of hours. Unfortunately, it ... month, yay for IAP). - The record low for November is 8 degrees and the ... average snowfall for the entire month of January is 13.5 inches! So, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  So I can't take an ounce of credit for this artistic endeavor, but I will applaud it's shear awesomeness. So this weekend my friends Diana, Yonas, Chris, Tom, Christi, and other Bakerites made this huge sign to

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary). Well, as far as MIT goes, I don't think that's true. For one thing, we ... recitation is not the person lecturing. For instance, I have 5.60 lecture three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  idea was that??) (Note: to look up the link for 5.60, I had to go to the ... find Chemistry in the C's rather than the F's -- for five, the chemistry ... -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  ) Classes MIT Geocache Photo Exhibit Food for Thought Beyond the Library ... companies are looking for students in your major, and for what kind of ... colleges right now, odds are that you're not looking for a career, but it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  /28). In the middle of that I head down to Tampa for the NACAC Conference ... info session is followed by a campus tour, so we can take for granted ... shouldn't come - you'll still get to meet the alumni interviewers for your

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Arthur Mattuck) 8.012: Physics I (often referred to as "Physics for ... Film Experience (a very good choice for a HASS elective) 8.S67 ... soon: a more in-depth look at freshman advising seminars. For more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play ... expensive ($48? for a throw pillow?), and c) Adam would hate. I headed back ... for snickerdoodles at LaVerde's, and they needed to get baked -- I find

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  gained international recognition for discovering three of the largest known ... for Undergraduates, Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy ... educational and research background of MIT for giving her this opportunity

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  power brokers. For some time now I've been intrigued by all forms of ... College Admissions. I've resisted jumping into the fray until now for one ... is room for one more raspy and slightly nasal New York voice. Can we

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to mathematical concepts as "puppies." "Alright, so then we factor this puppy and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc. For example, last week, some people constructed the following to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005