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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  cross-cast in the IAP musical. To be honest, the only reason why I started ... , an empirial technician, and an ewok in a grueling three-hour, two-intermission-long show. Kenneth Kamrin, a graduate student in mathematics, works with the

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little ... was taught in 1980 by Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, the authors of its ... invented with Guy Steele in the 70's here at MIT. It's an unusual language

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  place you live in everyday, and even if you think you live in the smallest, most boring town in the world, there are adventures around every corner (or cornfield, in some cases. Like mine. I'm from Illinois, remember

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  Bryant Park have in common? Besides all being located in New York City ... College Women competition. In three action-packed days, we met over 160 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... hunt would contain 270--no, 271--no 271 1/2 puzzles, all in keeping with ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at ... picture in your banner? As the observant have no doubt noticed, it's a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -year starter on the Bloodhound football team, has consistently ranked No. 3 in ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in Cambridge, Mass., just outside of Boston. Guillen, who will major in

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

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  actually not so fearsome anymore. It's kind of small, broken, and covered in ... architecture because the old architecture has bullet holes in it." This is not ... , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  two years in Next House. I like the description on the Next website, so ... Louis Sert, and was completed in 1982. The house's architectural themes ... balance of private and community spaces in its eight wings, each of which

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  lots of people at MIT interested in helping you make your college ... one here for you. At the moment, it is actually snowing in the 02139 ... the weekend. Smiles asked in Matt's last entry, "Hey, just wondering

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The chocolate chip cookie was invented in Massachusetts by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn ... shrimp, and then crispy fries rolled in melted butter and dipped in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years ... .] Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is ... any news in your life. This is not required nor is it expected, but if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  in Cell. (For anyone who follows science journal impact factors, this ... five proteins that interact with the protein I'm interested in. I've been ... overexpression in COS cells. I'm currently drug-treating neurons which express my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  question...though you kinda took your time but all in all I really appreciate ... question. I believe that some time I received in the mail a postcard asking about varsity athletics. I filled it out and mailed it in on the day of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  spectacularly. Like last night, we lost 1-0 in double overtime on the road and ... mention them in an entry(Adelaide '09 and Meara '09). Hell, people even get ... , being a veteran FIRSTer up in Canada, was thrilled about this. Her

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is ... decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake. Today, Prof. Richard Schrock, along with researchers in France and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a more thorough fashion than otherwise possible in a traditional advising

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people affected in the Gulf Coast in our minds and in our hearts. It's an emotional ... . Get in touch with us when the time is right for you and we'll be happy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005