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MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…
With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for ... the final "submit" button of your online application on or before ... over the holidays and is busily processing all of the application pieces -
Blog / Academics & Research
Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab
so he brings back some amazing memories of the trip I got to take last ... were all sorts of adventures, some of which involved crocodiles!). For now I'll just allow myself one more picture (of our rope pump!) and get -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…
A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing ... of you who aren't familiar with The Colbert Report, there are some ... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…
This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for ... behavior. As a maintainer of linux.mit.edu, the SIPB Linux dialup server -
Blog / MIT Life
Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...
first big snowfall of the year has coincided with the first of four final ... throughout the afternoon. (It reminded me of something a family friend told me ... are about five inches of the snow on the ground right now, and traffic -
Blog / Life after MIT
Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.
Just as you all have been preparing for one of life's biggest rituals ... another of life's big rituals: getting married. Tomorrow, I will marry an ... 's exciting, but at the same time, there's a bit of anxiety. For me, the anxiety -
Blog / Academics & Research
Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.
The PBS show NOVA scienceNOW had a wonderful story last week on MIT Professor Cynthia Breazeal, Director of the Robotic Life Group. It featured not only her robotic "children" like Leonardo and Kismet but also her -
Blog / Athletics
Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.
A new episode of MIT's video podcast, Zigzag, is now available. It includes a nice piece on MIT athletics as well as a Thanksgiving story. Zigzag is produced by Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) and is -
Blog / MIT Life
What do you want to know? Tell me something.
I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here, but I think it's probably best if I share information that is of interest to you. So if you don't mind, post some topics you'd like to hear -
Blog / MIT Life
Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!
prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business ... of exams have started, yet about 70 girls attended. Some activities included scavenger hunts, improv skits (apparently I’m hard to make fun of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end
of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe company? A runner's choice of running shoes is a very careful and ... on a Likert scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is least awesome and 5 is most -
Blog / Uncategorized
ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.
Episode 5 (The Empire Strikes Back?) of MIT's experimental podcast ZigZag is now available, including stories about the 2.007 robotics competition and HawkCam. Marsha Bolton hosts this episode. Check it out: You -
Blog / Miscellaneous
An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.
see the numbers on Wednesday night, when Elliott got voted off? Each of the three top contestants received 33.xx% of the votes - statistically ... 'm wrong: American Idol has a finite number of phone lines. The phone lines -
Blog / Academics & Research
2.007 Competition Tomorrow Better than Battlebots! 2.007 competition tomorrow!
Alright everyone, tomorrow and Wednesday are the days I am SURE you have been waiting for. In the Johnson Athletic Center at 6:30 pm, we will be having the first round of the 2.007 competition. Wednesday at 7 -
Blog / Admissions
Campus Preview Weekend
CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather machine will kick in soon. Have any questions or concerns? Post them and I -
Blog / Miscellaneous
I AM SO BUSY
Sweden to Abisko. Should be a lot of fun, and I promise to post pictures -
Blog / Athletics
Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.
compete in the luge-like, super-crazy event of skeleton, where he will race ... in the Dallas suburb of Plano, the Dallas Morning News has the full story. Images of Pat Antaki from skeletonsport.com, photos by Tea -
Blog / Academics & Research
IAP 2006
, living group, activity, or current area of work. I think the official purpose of this is to help you "network" with alums and find jobs at their ... real word, I just don't like it. There are plenty of good networking -
Blog / MIT Life
Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!
So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. And just remember had it been for