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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i ... last couple of years -- our favorite one required scanning a barcode on a box of EZ Mac to gain entry -- but he's finally settled on the simplest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to ... have the rare ability to set even water on fire. Thankfully, some of the people on my floor are much better cooks than I am, and every now and then

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  online math community and learning site on the web, bringing together ... perfect was the school shooting that happened the same day on the outskirts ... IEEE. And informally, creating something new and cool on your own is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  was written by my professor), wrote a short paper on emerging diseases ... worries; at the beginning of summer, MIT will send you a booklet on all the ... then rank your choices based on that and what you've seen of them, at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  get some things accomplished. (I worked on some projects for Amtrak ... here and there -- the Midwest, the South, and elsewhere on some long ... should report on some of the festivities here at East Campus. The dorm put

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , though it may vary slightly depending on your dorm. This list is based on ... connect to my laptop, which is much easier on my eyes. However, running programs like Matlab and Solidworks is absolutely painful on a laptop, so I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of ... cow I like this Red Sox cow because of the World Series ring on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  horrified look on my face in 2004 when I realized that there were no hot dogs on the 4th of July. The look of horror prompted Adam's mom to ask me ... fireworks. Usually we sit up on a hill in the middle of an 18th

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  's paper application within the next week or so, and will have it on hand to distribute to on campus visitors. Shortly after that, we will begin mailing the ... entry or on this page at My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on ... , with MIT and the class year each appearing on a separate shank. Thus the ... -piece design, with the MIT seal and the class year each appearing on a separate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which ... when people are trying to pick colleges, and I want to expand on that a ... certain number of terms and expected to find housing on their own? Are there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  with what's going on in the UA. And I'm in the Assassins' Guild's ten ... competition. I am on an all-5th East team, "All Circuits Groovy">. I came up with that name after Brian '08, one of my teammates, said that on the

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

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... internet wasn't my inability to write amusing new blog entries or chat on AIM

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  finishing touches on my last HASS (read: Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) paper. This 13-page masterpiece (cough) for 21A.260, on cross ... eyepieces when sitting down. Hee. So in my last entry on Friday, I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  ... Thursday 12/1: The day I'd set aside to catch up on email, blogging, work ... another year on our quest to make the world better. (Lunch: Mass Ave food ... , the folder goes back on the pile. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Playing over

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  an idea of how behind on email I am right now). He wrote, "The male ... him you can click on this link. "The female character in the picture is ... this website." After checking out the links, I was pretty sold on Xing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -confidence as design engineers. Emphasis on the creative design process bolstered by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on ... manufacturability are emphasized. Subject relies on active learning via a major design

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

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do ... 'm just excited to see how I did on these tests, even though I know I didn ... on some old things.... About the banner issue. MIT people are so cool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  choice. Filmed on location at the University of Southern California, The ... programming that is based on wish fulfillment, emotional journeys and ... executive on two of the entertainment industry's grandest institutions, "The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... community members take classes on such silly but important topics as Giving a ... mnemonic that the class taught: "b," on the left, is for bread, and "d," for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005