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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the ... 't be a wuss and say "But there are fourteen hundred entrieeeees in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6-9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week off! Just got back today - 1000+ emails in my inbox - good times

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  descrptions in the course catalogue, with my own impressions underneath. 7 ... information in simple systems, and detection and information coding during ... quantitative than you'd think (in general, neuroscience is more quantitative than

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... by MIT?" IB is generally equivalent to AP in terms of academic rigor

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  of clubs in school to activities that help to relieve human suffering ... ! The amount of passion in your applications. WOW! It does the soul good ... of you are chomping at the bit to jump right in. As the Black Eyed Peas

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  than we do. If you are interested in playing on a varsity sports team at ... form. If you are interested in our music community, consider sending in a music recording. If you are interested in our art community, considering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always ... , fall 2002. Instructor Steven Devlin:"Once, when Gauss was in elementary ... .02, Multivariable Calculus, spring 2003. Professor Michael Sipser: "I have found in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  exactly what you're asking about. In other news, yesterday was Halloween ... to tell. In fact, I'm embarassed just thinking about it. The thing is ... . Matt suggested that I dress up as an iPod, which was cool in a way, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  , frostbite is no fun and neither is being wet all the time. In case you haven ... in January is 36 degrees, the average low is 22 (it's also the coldest ... most precipitation on average occurs in November. - The lowest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of ... to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... in a while. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:21:31 -0400 [03:21:31 PM EDT ... ! Headers: Show All Headers Hey, B-C students! In conjunction with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  main OCW site, which lists the departments in alphabetical order rather ... find Chemistry in the C's rather than the F's -- for five, the chemistry ... purpose. Oh well. I am, by the way, the one in the front row middle of the

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

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair ... experience. (As some others of you may also be dimly aware, I was in the ... rule, cheer for any team which asks us to. The water polo coach came in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... to admit qualified women in enough numbers to reflect the applicant ... live on campus in their freshman year. And no one wants to spend his or

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  outside of what I'd watched in movies, and I didn't really plan on joining ... differently in different situations and feel comfortable in certain environments ... . Now here we are in September, rush began on Saturday afternoon with the

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  excitement and anticipation I had on my first day back in 1996; I wish I could ... come in to MIT "undeclared," and use the entire freshman year to explore MIT before choosing a major. In order to provide some real, concrete

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  'm just getting lazy and set in my ways in my old age. Last night Adam and ... doused in olive oil and parmesean cheese. On the way home, Adam and I got ... hugely entertained by the idea (or the sight!) of people wrestling in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  from a shallow area of water in the Cape Cod area. (public reminder to ... 't learn in 8.02 was how 3D glasses worked, so I decided to Google it. HowStuffWorks.com had a pretty good explanation. 3-D Viewing In a movie theater, the

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  . Even the dome was in the mood to celebrate the release of book 6. I ... instead of in my room, I spent my evening reading the book sitting on the ... probably one of the greatest sports rivalries in history, Red Sox v. Yankees

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  yesterday in my favorite apron (I made the meatballs, and Adam made the ... all sides. It's difficult to brown the meatballs evenly in the skillet ... shaped the meat into a cube and stuck it in the pan. Then I shaped the next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005