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• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  case the last three years of blogging and my recent distress over ... goals have clearly shifted quite a bit. This is partially due to a year of ... and that spending excessive amounts of time with petri dishes full of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  Back during IAP of last year I wrote an entry about a brand new "toy ... to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... seeing what my pen did. "Well shoot, I've already sold like three of these

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of ... bought a pair of roller blades. I forgot how much I really enjoy skating

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  voting, despite being aware of current events, I never participated for ... I had to miss a free, pre-screening of Be Kind Rewind AND a chance to hear the awesome director Michel Gondry speak (courtesy of LSC), and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little ... Union, Harvey Mudd, Olin College, RPI, and the University of Chicago. For ... the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  As Technology Review’s 2007 Top Young Innovator of the Year ... problems.” While he admits that he wouldn’t jump out of a plane ... Sasisekharan, a professor of Biological Engineering, and did his senior thesis

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  't remember any of it. My earliest memory is from 1987. I'm 10 months old ... school senior, the drum major of my marching band, the captain of the science team, and incredibly sure of myself. I had no idea I'd be where I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  , and hopefully, call in and vote. Here's ABC's summary of the show ... recipient of the million dollar prize. And some relevant info about Craig ... from ABC.com: Craig Forest & David Moeller, a team of two former

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  ) "let's eat tons of food and talk about our problems!" dinner. While Peach ... Spectrum duty desk in the lobby of McCulloch Hall at Northwestern University ... speeches for Persuasion and Debate or learning a full year of Latin in three

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... waste. Pictures of NASA Ames: (I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to post these

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  variety of activities that students do. All it takes to make a group is ... gift shop that said “There are 10 types of people in this world ... of the history behind MIT was surprisingly interesting, mostly because

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  engineering graduate school of some repute. My return flight through Chicago was cancelled due to Chicago being buried under 20 stories of golfball-sized hail ... 'm flying back to Boston by way of Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  also took some pictures of my own outfit at the dinner, but I decided ... managed to get him hopelessly lost within like 20 minutes of my house. Also he untags pictures of himself on facebook in which he thinks he looks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... . 1), RPI (Jan. 15), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 2). For those ... midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Wolverine is from CANADA. Okay, first of all, who ... aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time. Kind of like how people who live by waterfalls don't hear the water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... , they would get a lot of money. No, really. This man had been teaching ... featured in my blog according to my law of conservation of webspace. We had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  Guillen taking advantage of chance to attend MIT, play football By ... lies ahead for St. Joseph Academy senior Daniel Guillen is one of the ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted, however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• 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 ... of glad I'm interviewing for graduate programs this year while writing the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006