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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  last minute changes, and then submit your final registration in Dupont ... through it myself, but the basic idea is that your advising group lives in ... students in seminar based advising, but typically your advisor comes to your

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Vindicated! And the summer of FREEdom begins. (Pictures added)

  

  I'm in Boston until the end of next week for some meetings for the Committee on Academic Performance, but guess what, NO PROBLEM SETS! And thus ... concerts? Tomorrow, a local radio station here in Boston is sponsoring a free

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Varsity Blogging As mentioned in a previous entry, I made some end-of-year presents for my bloggers -…

  

  As mentioned in a previous entry, I made some end-of-year presents for my bloggers - but I couldn't show you a picture until they'd been distributed. Now that I'm no longer in danger of ruining the surprise, check

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Activate Party Mode! Auctomated dorm controls at East Campus.

  

  From the same file as the Disco Dance Floor... it's the Multifunction In-Dorm Automation System (MIDAS)! MIDAS is an elaborate automation ... dorm room in East Campus. The room is now 199 square feet of customized

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  your MIT reply form with an affirmative response, check in here in the ... 't forget about that discount coupon that came in your admit pack! Ah, but sometimes, you want to be a little subtle in your MIT pride, while still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  -qualified applicants, because we truly believe in you. And, in the process, we grew very ... choice is yours -- which school is the best fit for you? We knew coming in ... choose to enroll somewhere else. That's a statistic. But zooming in, there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is ... % of students got their first choice in the summer lottery and 26% got their second choice. August 26 or 27 -- Arrive at MIT and put stuff in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for ... there? Well, there's beauty in the breakdown. At 5 AM, I'm leaving Burton ... Philadelphia. After a 6-hour nap, I'll wake up in Philadelphia and prepare to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in ... that it was a personal entry in my personal blog about my personal ... common in my field, but it needs clarification. No one is ever rejected by

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  Well, I'm back in Boston, slowly recovering from jet lag, and am ... tomorrow. I already had a test today, in 7.28 (Molecular Biology), so I'm not ... undergrad four years ago. I am also adding in some reasons that I didn't know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  In my past entry, a few students commented with the request that I ... (Amelie style) on my old blog in August 2004, but it's pretty hard to find ... , course 14; I was born and raised in New Jersey (no jokes, please), but I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  professors assist in choosing the class. In previous years, these faculty ... in the Boston Globe a week ago. Check it out: ...Sadoway, a professor ... in the cadre of engineers and scientists who come up with solutions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it ... . In other words, if we feel that a mid-year report is needed to make a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  director of MISTI, MIT's international studies program. The course is held in the same room as last term's writing class, and is held in a similar ... , asking questions about the trends in everyday communication we take for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with 40+ McGanns in attendance. Just a few miles from my house is the famous Big Duck, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year Everyone! See you in 2006.

  

  've caught up with the latest blog questions in the last entry...) See you in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Returns Butterless popcorn and a little magic.

  

  Pending recovery from my illness, in a few hours, I will board a bus to head here to watch this movie in IMAX. I'm a "little" excited. Diana boarding the "Knight Bus" (ie the Big Yellow Bus) with her ticket

  • by Bryan
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting. Look at the good weather, even in November! I wonder how long this will ... companies in America, William I. Koch is an international businessman

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  Posthumous isn't the right word, but it's among my favorite in the ... in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  news headlines include: *Macular Degeneration Induces Reorganization in ... , Say Researchers, Challenging Previous Theories *Compound in Carrots ... . 3. Features: Essays about controversial topics in research. *Hormone

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005