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• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time ... " Nance) understand that having Miles around is A GOOD THING! It was all ... new award, it is given to the to the 2 year old who best demonstrates

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  . In case you just tuned in, my job is to turn turkey carcasses into oil ... -grade oils. Anyway, the problem is that in addition to getting oil from the ... of symmetry, seared meat is delicious for the exact reason that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  : I'm taking 14.41 this term Professor: Oh, is that PF? Student: No, I ... is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... as I love Triscuits, but sleep is one of them. Okay I'm losing focus

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to ... TA waves at me, says "Bye-bye!", and points to the board, on which is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... of you give back to the community. It is not hard to tell when someone is just going through the motions or trying to pad their application. I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  Brain and Cognitive Sciences: The disorder is complex, both in its genes ... building is a plan to try to combine brain-scanning with genetics to figure ... define diseases. The hope, he said, is to find patterns in the brain scans

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

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  questions about what major he is (Mathematics (Course 18) and Linguistics ... understand!) A graph is just a set of vertices connected by edges. You can ... rainbow cycles, where a rainbow cycle is a set of edges that form a cycle or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  reading season. The "love" part is that I love reading apps. I love reading ... community. (This last one is a bad idea - with such a low admit rate, it ... myself.) The "hate" part is simply that there aren't enough hours in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  are too expensive. Jeremy is just so immature and blunt that he will ... stalking. They meet for dinner, where conversation is forced and trite, and ... has a future. Mirabelle is forced to choose between Ray and Jeremy, two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  premise of Reawakening is that our hall has its own dark god, Krotus. Krotus is painted in the lounge, and in many other places on the hall, and he ... . She was also this year's virgin. In this picture, she is wearing a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Since I just finished a 5.60 problem set, my brain is approximately ... something short about the last few entries' comments on my blog. (5.60 is ... Saturday. I am very psyched that Sam is planning to join the marching band

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

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  When you have a 2.5-year-old and a 3-month-old, anything after 6AM is ... why certain kids get in when others do not. This is a big goal of ours ... campus - Loomis is a beautiful place. Loomis Chaffee has somewhat of a sad

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 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.

  

  Science and Technology Initiatives) Week, this week is worthy enough to be ... is very extensive and would not fit here, so check it out.) Events of ... there is the Career Fair itself. A ton of companies (~250 -- see the

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

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , otherwise one is bound to forget things when one is rushing to get out the ... . I mean, how can you not be cool when your last name is Thiery and you ... my uncle (who is the GHAMAS math guru) of his entire linear algebra

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar ... prevention is always the best cure. "We have to learn that things have to be ... students tell it, school is school, rarefied or not, and so they expect to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  are even more limited now that my bike is locked up in the bike room ... would highly recommend this place. The restaurant is called Bay Leaves, in Kingston, RI, which is about thirty minutes from Providence. The commuter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  in the next 6 weeks. You can see if there is a session near you and ... other universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  name, but Norbert is just a cool name as it is). One thing I didn ... reason why you wear 3-D glasses is to feed different images into your eyes ... : Red/Green or Red/Blue Although the red/green or red/blue system is now

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... . Plus, my boyfriend is some ridiculously elite freestyle skiier, so he has ... of flexibility in making food that tastes good but is also healthy. (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  Well now, this is a good way to start a blog entry. Megan '08, nine ... warm in an antarctic environment is to huddle together in concentric ... Mafia, Moo, and President. I just want to say right now, Moo is like the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005