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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  completely by chance. Case in point: About a month ago, I was heading from my ... when speaking in casual conversation :D). Ternus had recently gotten ... of the Green Building - which is, incidentally, the tallest building in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  sounds like a house elf from Harry Potter and 2) my parents, who were in ... cons of Burton Conner vs. Senior Haus, and in retrospect, very little ... taught in a field I was interested in. Seminars, he said, were ideal, since

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  to grad students, post-doctorates, and even professors - and in my ... Jeremy. Jeremy is my 18.03 TA, which in English means he's one of the ... taught in lecture, presents us with example problems, and helps answer our

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  cross-cast in the IAP musical. To be honest, the only reason why I started ... , an empirial technician, and an ewok in a grueling three-hour, two-intermission-long show. Kenneth Kamrin, a graduate student in mathematics, works with the

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little ... was taught in 1980 by Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, the authors of its ... invented with Guy Steele in the 70's here at MIT. It's an unusual language

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  place you live in everyday, and even if you think you live in the smallest, most boring town in the world, there are adventures around every corner (or cornfield, in some cases. Like mine. I'm from Illinois, remember

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  Bryant Park have in common? Besides all being located in New York City ... College Women competition. In three action-packed days, we met over 160 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... hunt would contain 270--no, 271--no 271 1/2 puzzles, all in keeping with ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at ... picture in your banner? As the observant have no doubt noticed, it's a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  -year starter on the Bloodhound football team, has consistently ranked No. 3 in ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in Cambridge, Mass., just outside of Boston. Guillen, who will major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 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 ... architecture because the old architecture has bullet holes in it." This is not ... , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you

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

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  two years in Next House. I like the description on the Next website, so ... Louis Sert, and was completed in 1982. The house's architectural themes ... balance of private and community spaces in its eight wings, each of which

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  across пњљпњљ of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider ... of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for ... deserts we all reconvene in Samarkand on the ancient silk route, where a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  lots of people at MIT interested in helping you make your college ... one here for you. At the moment, it is actually snowing in the 02139 ... the weekend. Smiles asked in Matt's last entry, "Hey, just wondering

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The chocolate chip cookie was invented in Massachusetts by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn ... shrimp, and then crispy fries rolled in melted butter and dipped in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time. You see, I've been very ... with what's going on in the UA. And I'm in the Assassins' Guild's ten ... periodic lectures in room 35-225. This is a picture from our lecture on

  • 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

  

  longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... . The summer after my freshman year, I lived in Washington DC with Rose

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years ... .] Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is ... any news in your life. This is not required nor is it expected, but if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  in Cell. (For anyone who follows science journal impact factors, this ... five proteins that interact with the protein I'm interested in. I've been ... overexpression in COS cells. I'm currently drug-treating neurons which express my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005