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  December Events

  

  question and answer session. ----------- WALK IN STUDENT FLU SHOT CLINIC ... Fatigue or A Ten Second Sting?? you decide. WHAT? Flu Walk-in Flu Shot ... , doctors, and varied health officials in some of the poorest parts of rural

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On my way…

  

  originally expected! Yippee! Right. Well, my train leaves in just over 2 hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to ... help me keep everything in perspective about my work, and they're always

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  interesting things I've seen done with butter in a very long time. Yes

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  Center, countless Biology graduate students in buildings 56 and 68, the campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken ... know is interested in joining, let us know at marching underscore band at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before ... that last night (and today) were downright pleasant in terms of weather ... planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 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 ... , at Morss Hall in MIT's Walker Memorial. Ford International Professor of

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

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  Laura Stonehill, an MIT senior majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent her summer in Venice, Italy through an informal internship ... the opportunity to experience life in Italy while simultaneously working

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  time, in search of rooms which share numbers with common freshman ... Programs, in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ... over to 66, descend the stairs (as detailed in the last entry), and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw ... . Unfortunately, there weren't any Nobel Prize winners in this one. Does anyone ... inventions. Velcro is in the consumer goods section.) Mini golf. Human

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my ... week, and he was filling in. So after grabbing a bite to eat at ... freshman and try it. If I'm in Boston next summer, does anyone want to

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... coffee (coffee grown in Yemen or Harrar region of Ethiopia) knows the first ... application in context, and the more context we have, the better. Ultimately

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  . The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city ... . Favorite movies: Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland and Philadelphia ... won an Annie Look-a-Like contest in Chicago when I was seven years old

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  form in plenty of time, thank you very much. (The tenth page was discovered this morning in my scanner. I never took it out after making copies ... which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  prototype ready in September for people to ride across the city. Eventually ... project organizers really brought in the community to take part in building ... letting people ride it around their neighborhoods in the coming months; I

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  subtle ideas for science fiction movies is invaded in this film by an ... -legged robot, he returned to the subject in his biweekly "Movie Answer Man ... tissues, but it's always great to see those three letters popping up in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  falling down? It really was sinking into the River Thames, so in 1968, the ... next installment! Typical London row houses When you're in London ... ) Tower Bridge, for comparison A rather progressive afternoon tea in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The summer begins…

  

  Now that I've completed the FEE, it's time for the math diagnostic. I've got my freshman advising application in, as well as my MIT ID card photo and housing lottery preferences. With most of this behind me, it feels

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  neediness in terms of paying for college, are from middle class families. I ... underrepresented group in American universities is low income students) Trivia. The ... tell them apart from everyone else. (More on homeschooled students in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005