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Blog / Academics & Research
Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome
determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... different name, would determine the sequence of the DNA in at least 12 ... comparing the order of the letters of the genetic code in the tumor samples -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?
predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of ... innovation toward climate science, including the Department of Earth ... of Global Change, and the MIT Energy Initiative. -
Blog / Academics & Research
Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.
Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here. -
Blog / Academics & Research
Opera No, not the browser
One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I ... grasp, I've been following the Opera of the Future project with growing -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.
tomorrow) on a bit of Media Lab research called the Jerk-O-Meter (?!), which comes out of the Human Dynamics Group, run by Prof. Sandy Pentland ... other end of the phone is really paying attention? The "Jerk-O-Meter" may -
Blog / Events
Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium
became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer -
Blog / MIT Life
A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…
Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time ... being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system ... (Residence Exploration). REX is where each of the dorms pulls out all the stops -
Blog / Uncategorized
Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!
Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... ceiling of Symphony Hall. We sat at the same table as lovebirds Thomas '05 ... has composed scores for scores of major motion pictures, including the -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university
," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the contemporary campus. This is not that story. Instead, this is the story of how MIT almost became a pirate fortress in the middle of the Charles. Via -
Blog / Events
The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!
'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the ... that really disappointed me about the ring - its complete lack of ... , when the point of having all these quirky symbols is to defy tradition -
Blog / Events
The middle days of the week
days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on ... Braille Press in Boston. We started with a tour of the building. In the ... more stacks of paper when they were printing Harry Potter and the Half -
Blog / Admissions
Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.
the rest of the admissions team. Not my favorite part of the job (I'm not the biggest fan of paper cuts) but it's rewarding in that it provides a bit of closure to an important part of the admissions cycle. It -
Blog / Academics & Research
Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few
6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most ... ’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of designing and ... , especially in the context of limited resources. Limited memory, limited -
Blog / Admissions
The reading season begins
? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases -
Blog / Personal Travel
If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.
Sort of. Do you remember the nursery rhyme about the London Bridge ... chainsaw magnate Robert McCulloch submitted the winning bid of $2 ... artist of the statue had never seen a lion before, so he used his pet dog -
Blog / Admissions
Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.
lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So ... are taken out of the envelope, given an official MIT Office of ... sort of document it is (this is why documents that were sent in the same -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on
. Commentary: We watched this video the first day of lecture. Possibly one of the ... the physics and stochastic nature of manufacturing processes and systems ... friends of mine and I decided to see how long we were willing to wear the -
Blog / Admissions
The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.
political substance of the teacher's comments. Rather, I'm curious to know ... topic that I think is worthy of discussion. Normally I don't enter this sort of territory with my blog, but I think it's directly relevant to -
Blog / Events
Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)
Boston Public Library - Venue of the Class of 2020 Ring Delivery ... in front of the elevators. It's not shown in this picture, but this ... ? The initials of the five of us (me, Allan, Nia, Karen, and Katherine