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• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  fete, with more Nobel laureates than you can shake a stick at in ... go to every conference they can get their hands on, so it wouldn ... you can, in fact, do just about anything with an MIT degree! PS -- It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by ... oscilloscope, it can detect, for example, whether a particle is an electron or a ... ,000 holes can cause the foil to fail. Laurie began her UROP last spring and

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

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  until the group comes to a unanimous decision. If one can't be reached ... 're almost there. At the end of the day we count. I can't give you details (so ... can actually admit EA. The same thing happens every year. I tell you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  students participate because the schedule is flexible and you can really ... ie going to sleep the night before my birthday so I can wake up and say ... you can tell by the assortment of questions answered today. Just leave a

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  list.) Basically, if you only like neurons/systems/psychology, you can ... /systems/psychology. If you like all of it, you can dabble in everything. Have it your way ... things you can do with a course 9 degree. So that's that. Any other

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  Wednesday already?!" I know, I know, it's all I can keep thinking about too ... . I have three tests this week. Three! I think we can all agree that ... 're hard. They just kind of suck. You can spend three hours the night before

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

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  kiddie pool of water and teach him that there's a platform he can swim to and climb on. Mice can swim, but they don't like to, so he learns pretty ... aren't like that. For some reason (and if you want the reasons, you can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  well as you can, it does not mean, "not winning") it is only because ... . It is not something you can fail at — there are no tests, no admissions ... "flow" state as often as you can.

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  (with some photos, too.) 1.A24: You CAN Get There From Here! This is a ... equivalent to "raising your hand"), students can follow along with the ... , or otherwise can waive it with Advanced Placement credit, a wide range

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  , because Marilee Jones has magical glasses that can see into people's souls ... while we watched the season 3 finale of The Amazing Race. As you can see ... , after meeting every undergrad at MIT, I decided that the entire nation can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  protocol? And you can't go to Thailand without seeing some of their ... ; Game Fair. As you can see from the second picture above, the line was ... Taiko Drum Master). As you can tell, I was intense about this game. At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  something that's being served, you can eat something else. Both Next and Simmons offer made-to-order stirfry, so you can "have it your way" without ... cases) have it delivered to our doors. One can also buy groceries on Tech

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  living group doesn't mean you can't visit other people at other places ... ), and meat dishes if the cooks are omnivores. Non-pikans can purchase full ... Dave." You can see the Doonesbury mural behind them. pika is very

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  , stays constant, so this data would be homoskedastic, right? What can ... , looking through my archives, I can see that we were in fact having 5 ... , I can't believe I just typed "stoup." Thicker than a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... ... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up ... carefully, because good pset grades can really help if your test grades are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  various programs you can download for Windows. (There are tabs at the top of ... called Leash. You can use Leash to login with your Athena username and ... you can set up new directories and set permissions for them, but let

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  LuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice ... sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you can send a letter ... can return, and become once again a great symbol of science in this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  Correction from my previous entry: I'm told that you can paint your ... seperate beds?" I can't speak for every dorm, but at East Campus, most rooms ... are made to fit together, not built as a single entity. So you can

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... part of this community, we can no longer just want to make the world a ... up! I love how fast MIT is with that stuff... you can find it here.]

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  questions as soon as I can... "A Probably Not So Important Question That Might ... 're not. (This can be applied to all of the other crazy schools that also ... nghi wrote, "can you write about the new management minor offered at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005