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  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are knitting aficionados. Did you know that the bunny hat I’m wearing above was knitted for me by…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this on the chalkboard: Now, I wasn’t really paying that close attention at the time because I had to…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  So I will elaborate on this entry later this evening, but for now, I’ll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone…

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Well, we’ve already been over the fact that I like recording minutiae, and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving crazy person. Maybe…

  • 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!

  

  handles research with freshman. Do they get to use the same facilities as graduate students? Have you or any of your friends started researching for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  I’m not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it’s partially Random, potentially Social, and relatively Academics. Fine, “Academics” it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative “seeks to…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  I’ve had some great conversations over the past few weeks with folks in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Richard Rusczyk…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  As I told you in my last entry, my mother has become concerned about my life here at MIT. I mentioned awhile ago that by now, basically my entire extended…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  It is term, and now I have classes! Five of them, right now. I hope to be able to keep all five, but if it is too much work then…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I’ve…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Yesterday was the first day of classes at MIT. I remember the excitement and anticipation I had on my first day back in 1996; I wish I could go through…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I don’t know why that deserved an exclamation point. Probably because I don’t have any problem sets due…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester, because individual class schedules for the fall term came out. (My very favorite day of the semester…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  't care about anything other than your previous research experience, what you want to research in grad school, and how seriously you're committed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after freshman year. It’s sort…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  Nicole R. asked: “What have been some of your favorite classes at MIT, and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT?” Good question! First part…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  They say, “You snooze, you lose” — Kevin and Daniel beat me to two blog topics today. Kevin posted the New York Times article on MIT President Susan Hockfield, and…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank you for your birthday wishes =) I’m in the office today, reading applications as well as…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship." The Research Science ... program which emphasizes advanced theory and research in mathematics, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  the nearest major research university to where I grew up, for some of ... undergraduates where heavily involved in research. The student body had tremendous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004