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• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  teachers and started writing my application essays. One can say it wasn't the ... cool relationship where sometimes we can argue and it's okay. So one day ... four years. Talk to as many people as you can. Get lost on the campus and

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  close and I can't think of a time when there's ever been a serious ... really can't say whether I would have picked Harvard over MIT for undergrad ... 're weird. And I can scan in writing assignments from fourth grade to prove

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  , you can see the article here. Basically, what I gathered from the ... after graduation. She says, "They love the fact that science majors can ... paper-hungry but not with regards to money, but to how many journals I can

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  . Sam (not this Sam) asked when you can start a UROP. You can definitely start one in your first term at MIT, providing that you can find a faculty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  internet. However, you can't go around making embarrassing entries like this ... always says, "Oh, call me Terry!" I can't!! Even at my interview with ... address them if you write an e-mail back! Because you can't call a professor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  hosed this IAP. "But it's IAP," you say, "How can you be hosed?" Well ... system control techniques. As you can see if you look closely, and know ... MASLab team keeps a journal. Ours lives here. You can check each day to see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  'll do an entry on MIT campus legends, if I can recognize enough of them ... to our MIT ID cards, and you can put as much or as little money as you ... share a bathroom with five other people, ensuring that you can find a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  materials to make our engine out of, and a really nice drawing set. As you can ... important that you can communicate your ideas through drawing. So, in our ... at about 500 rpm, but we hope that we can use this class to make some

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  little awesome. Anyway, I can't wait to head back this year. I hope it ... of IAP. I guess. I can't think of how to end this entry... well, I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  , when my mind's off finals. That way, I can focus totally on your ... profoundly effective movies I've ever seen. I highly recommend it. I can see ... she can't stand up straight. Cookie porn. Hope you weren't hungry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  and water. (Did you know that, thanks to 5.60, I can now model the ... March last year. But now it's a new winter and I can be excited again! 2 ... departments, like course 6, have special programs in which you can complete your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  , until you do, here are three things you can contemplate: DID YOU KNOW? 1. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... Professor Ellen Harris was speaking. You can read all about it on Mitra's blog

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• 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

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their ... : What can I say? There are few topics as important as this. Meanwhile, in ... a place where everyone is brilliant? What's up with the bird flu? Can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  (like food trucks and coffee shops). You can read more about all of these ... receive 1/2 off of all meals in the house dining halls. You can read more of ... see when you walk in the door. But just in case you can't read, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  usually in such good condition that you can't even really tell what's wrong ... .60, 8.01 open-notes: everything in course 10, 7.06 Mitra said: "I can say ... 18.01. I can personally vouch for both parts of this statement, because

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005