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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  -high temperature, Wiis and PS3s, the World Cup, penguins and pandas, eight planets, and changes of power on Capitol Hill. At MIT, we learned more about ... libraries to understand cancer and disease, studied addiction, made plans for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with ... Rick. :-) Stu and Matt get into it. Stu and Matt really get into it. Stu hams it up. Rick and Stu sing harmony for Marilee. Marisa and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  So about a month ago, back when I actually wrote blog entries and ... , decided to welcome her return with a nice poster:   And a few ballons.   And then a few more...   Really, there

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ... with mother of pearl pickguard, ash body with maple neck and rosewood

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  So, MyMIT is back up, and things are back to normal around here. (Or ... , I encourage you not to wait until the last minute to finish and submit ... . Sometimes a kind and gentle reminder can be helpful. Otherwise, I hope you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 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 graffiti. The incongruity between what the city currently looks like and what ... , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Come to AXO Lip Sync! Come to AXO Lip Sync tonight to see some of your friends... "remember when????"

  

  Cambridge YWCA, and because Lip Sync-ing is awesome All proceeds from the ... provide temporary and permanent housing for displaced women, homeless women and children, women with HIV/AIDS, battered women, and women recovering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you ... Scandinavia and I think it's time for a little update. Forgive me, though, for not writing a whole lot this evening -- I'm still on Stockholm time, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students: MyMIT Updated Important and cool new information on MyMIT: check it out now.

  

  , learn about your classmates, find out who else is from your area and who ... . Across the country (and across the world) there will be meetings of ... , such as the MIT 2010 LiveJournal, Xanga, and MySpace communities. CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  , saying "According to Mr. Nance, everyone who is accepted is qualified, and ... numbers is a little odd [27% acceptance rate females, 12% males], and I find ... pool is more self-selected, and I completely agree. (One interesting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  yesterday and they seem optimistic. Please note that it's not definite at this ... and that you'd appreciate the update. All I can say is that we're trying, and things look good, but we need a few more weeks to be sure. Due to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  Taking a break from reading today, I saw Matt's latest post and had ... entire year. Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton ... . It seriously gave me the chills. We'll see edits tomorrow and then the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).

  

  thread to make predictions on the exact time and weight. The closest time and weight guesses will receive gifts from Bryan (Ha! I love hijacking his blog and making promises on his behalf!). Personally I am hoping

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  : BE.370: Quantitative Physiology I Wednesday: 2.002: Mechanics and ... answers wrong And I grew strong And learned that I could scrape along! And ... Across the interface - I should have measured heat; And the change in

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  . I hung around the Infinite today and caught Ben and Matt as they were ... 'd better get out of there once I had my picture so they could go home and ... about nothing but MIT for a while. Hang in there and feel free to weigh in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nineteen behavior mice, as I am done testing them and they are to be ... whose major function is to serve as a structural base which recruits and ... discovered and characterized by Morgan, the professor whose lab I work in. Lots

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  . (I liked her so much that I took her class 21A.348: Photography and ... it, and we met in the Anthropology Department's conference room for ... week, and back at home, I kept referring to Shirali '05 and Farhan '05 as

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  Sunday, my friend Jen, '08 - Course 14, and I went out pet shopping ... every 20 minutes). Sunday was pretty hot and the shuttle's AC was broken ... Berry Smoothies and Lightning Bolt-shaped Rice Krispy treats (I wonder

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since ... new banner. (That, and I've hit a creative roadblock.) I am ... the artist whose design I choose, *and* send you some MIT memorabilia in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  Salvador and Amy each read 922 applications, and we received 10 ... February 28.) Salvador takes 5 days of vacation in December and 2 days in ... January, and 1 in February. All else being equal - for applications for

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005