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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  , outside my window I can see the sun breaking through the clouds over the Charles River. And I can't help but think that it's a beautiful day to bid

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping ... understand how these little lizards can defy gravity. It turns out that gecko ... hundreds of projections shaped like spatulas. Each of these tips can attach

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  case you haven't seen the trailer or the commercials, you can watch it ... your country (see release dates), you can still participate! Simply rent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  Hi Everyone! It's been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be ... grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can ... a particle at a given time. However, you can predict the probability

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  minutes and were pretty cool. Can't be compared to fireworks during New ... all night long. You can buy fireworks at the local grocery store! Some

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  last for maybe one post after this one. But, hey - a guy can dream, right ... instructor said (and I'm paraphrasing here) that "all of electronics can be ... have a variable brightness, we can use PWM to change it. Basically, you

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  last names (hasselho). Note: you can, through Moira, request an email list, which, if you set your username as the only subscriber, can function as a second email address for you; this list name can be longer than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  for you, you can imagine how time consuming this can be. Even daylight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  For now, I'll refer you to this blog entry, but I'll be back. --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving ... place that I love. Make sure that you remember that all you can do is know

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  hope you can start to relax. I'm still getting some really stressed out ... , friends, and school. You can worry again about college once you have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  's Edge") and the Killian Pyramids. See if you can spot what changed ... , Sean. You yourself can visit the hack website here: Waldo Map I <3

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Upon hearing one of Bach's motets late in his life, Mozart reportedly remarked, "Finally, here is music one can learn from ... every person in the class was like "PFFFF! Can I take German I again? That

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  play Guitar Hero -you can't take anything into the GRE testing area, including pencils, cough drops ("You can take one in your mouth, but you

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

  5E Rush Photos

  

  everywhere. Kathleen '10 ended up living on 5th East! I can tell that she ... , Matt '08, Brian '08, and a couple of people I can't make out in the dim

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  Pal account to donate for shipping. We can still have awkward conversations ... yeah, THE CAKE. So no, I can't actually make you a white chocolate raspberry mousse. I CAN charge you $25.50 for it, though. (That's a skill for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  there, watch some kids and can't do all the cool stuff... Being a ... stairs. Plus, the amusement park across the street (you can see it in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  So one of the best aspects of being in Boston for the summer is all of the free cultural events that you can avail yourself of. One of the ... walk across Storrow Drive, you can get to Boston Common where this summer

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  's onto something, because that's definitely true. But you can witness this ... how pronounced the foam is or how long it sticks around, but that can ... is iridescent, right? You can see streaks of all different colors in it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  as "nation's largest all-you-can-eat ice cream festival." For $7 (kids: $3), you can consume Boston's favorite treat to your heart's (stomach

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  -- if used wisely and as a financial tool, it can really help to have that ... -- never buy things for which you can't immediately pay (if you can help it ... transfer the payment to the credit card. And if you can't trust yourself to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006