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Blog / About Decisions
Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.
architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... that some of you have not heard from your host. Do not worry. I assure you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while -
Blog / MIT Life
Saturday at the water park
off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different ... family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond
"lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the -
Blog / Admissions
A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue
" for the rest of his life), Middle English and the Canterbury Tales (they even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing ... in London, so decided to make a trip out of it. Unfortunately, I'm not -
Blog / Events
Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!
charity banquet called Grains of Rice This year's featured band was Cake! I ... huge fan of either, but then CAKE came! We were able to get amazingly ... yelled out songs that they wanted to hear. Some of the songs that they -
Blog / Admissions
Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.
[email protected] To Members of the MIT Community: Yesterday's tragic events at Virginia Tech have shocked and saddened all of us. We offer MIT's condolences to ... All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is
microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment ... of the more senior lab members. Morgan's lab is primarily concerned ... sends an electrical signal to its end which causes little packets of -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.
issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some -
Blog / Majors & Minors
What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte
price of the same amount that MITechnology students pay for their degrees ... here are interested all kinds of different fields, from anime to manga ... here follow the path of least resistance and attend the Massachusetts -
Blog / MIT Life
Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.
're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... leave my computer. In Next, wings are halves of floors, either the East or ... help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly -
Blog / Athletics
Photophobic
As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I -
Blog / MIT Life
September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn
spent a lot of time walking and riding my bike, exploring Cambridge and ... And becomes a sea of lava. The wind howls and whispers ... gleam like galaxies.” The stars of night are barely visible; city -
Blog / Challenges
sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once
My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... latte,” and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend, and took a picture ... -cold-not-rainy California and moved on with our lives. It’s been raining lately, and I get -
Blog / IAP
Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute
I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... great time to bond with teammates (and improve our rowing of course). It -
Blog / Admissions
MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.
LONG / Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE - Molly Pounds' love of horses ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I -
Blog / Events
Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.
of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical..." Hello readers. I've had an overwhelming number of requests for sample problems ... in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long -
Blog / Academics & Research
Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.
. These were Masters students working as part of their degree. Laura ... program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to -
Blog / Life after MIT
Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…
best part of graduating and moving to California has been connecting with ... a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook era." Let me share with you an anecdotal history of blogging, what I -
Blog / Life after MIT
What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.
and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who ... place called a library to get information. It was, of course, uphill both ... Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California. JPL is the place that sends out