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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  , is taking a little bit of adjustment. Speaking of adjustment.. This ... talk to your TAs and ask them questions because participation is inherent ... miss, because Dr. Berkwoski is hilarious), but attend a recitation in ESG

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  since there is no point of giving any money at all. That the dictators give on average $3 is evidence, some argue, for altruism (or non ... . When this is a choice, more students give $0, and some students steal up

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  /astro is nuclear engineering and even they don't have jet engines. If you ... its name is Grease Lightning. Its empty mass is 0.1kg and coefficient of drag is 0.21. The lightning bolts make it faster while the paint job

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  radio station. Not that radio in Boston is particularly awful, but I could ... so long to finalize decisions. This is the first year in which the ... incredibly talented; one of the joys of the blogger selection process is that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  cannot do so, because the context in which his works were formed is gone ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... course description doesn't exactly convey how the class is "analytically

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  what in the genome is important and how organisms might have evolved. For ... something important that is worth keeping around for millions of years. So ... determine when a gene is expressed. His research has received numerous awards

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  year before The Origin of Species was published. Berlin is truly an ... fifteen years later is the capital of Germany and its most popular tourist ... will start beating you. Did you know that Haagen Dazs is a made-up word

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  , commencement is over, and I'm officially an MIT graduate. That's still a little ... find, to paraphrase Shakespeare, that the world is your oyster... I hope ... repeatedly in your lives is how to use the talent and the education that you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... have a more biological approach while 3.091 is more applicable to ... said it wasn't a good school for premeds. In some cases, this is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it ... path is through Urban Studies and Planning. I previously thought I might ... .812) and two electives. In the first four years the minor is offered, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  like someone asking, "So, how's the oxygen situation in Cambridge? Is ... . The fact that MIT is a science and engineering school, and even ... woman is that all the chairs in the microscope room in my lab are too

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... 'm doing right now is writing a blog entry. I'm doing that because I went to ... sexual vitality is good enough for me. Cookoff, about competitive cooking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  "Professor Hamel," and although he's an amazing instructor, I think he is one ... a special guest teacher in 21M.302 because MIT is looking to hire a ... cool as he is. Back when American Idol 1 was just getting started, I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  -5; this is their second stop in Boston this tour), Dave Matthews Band ... Thomas the week before, and Ludacris is in town tonight) Last entry, I ... inscription translation is now an open question to be answered by you, as is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  foremost because she is a woman. No no no no no no no no! I wholeheartedly ... to make is that Susan Hockfield was the best candidate by a landslide ... is 47% women), the negative stereotype persists, and (2) frankly, women

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East ... . Believe it or not, that red blur is a swinging freshman in a red shirt. And ... were parodying our own image, which is something we do really well

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

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  the Student Center to check in with the Orientation people. (This is a ... Corridor. Now, one of the things they give you at Orientation Check-In is the ... . Number 88 is "Count your steps down the Infinite Corridor." So I figured

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  with two coats of Parisian. Ruth is opting for a subdued combination of ... match pre-existing design elements--Ruth is painting her walls to ... . Economy Hardware is actually really expensive, but it's within walking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  advice was right on. My banner is now successfully hosted in my own little ... , you need to get some Kerberos tickets. (Kerberos is a security protocol ... your identity to the MIT computers. For whatever reason, SecureFX is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • 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.

  

  the book, which is "Impossible things can happen because chocolate is ... out sorbet (is there a lot of sorbet in Harry Potter?) Unfortunately ... , which is inferior to J. P. Licks anyway, stayed open late to capitalize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005