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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  note! Today is my birthday!! :D I'm 22!

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  , too. Anyway, today is the Mafia Potluck with New House 4. I will be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  running at the Z-Center today and I thought I grabbed a white running shirt

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  fireplace. My actual purpose today is to talk a little bit about selecting a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  rigorously as Sam, though.) In other news, I realized today that the only form

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

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

  

  A few random notes today... Mystery solved! You may remember that a while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the way down the linked page). I wanted to identify the cosplay roles played

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  you can tell by the assortment of questions answered today. Just leave a

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  Today I am hijacking Laura's entry on tests, because a) it's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  (behind the camera: Ben) I'm in the office in Cambridge briefly again today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  universities on the Gulf Coast. An AP article today said that "the American

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ! I'm excited! I can use the Internet now! Today we had THREE sessions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  to Six Flags today and then I have to pack up my entire room and move

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper 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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  yesterday. By the way, I saw him today and his red streaks are excellent; much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  Mmm, it's a hot one today (93oF, or 38.9oC for those of you who use a logical degree system)! Days like this make me glad for two things: 1) my beautiful polka-dotted sundress which keeps me cool walking to work on hot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  that! Also, earlier today, another admissions officer left a nice comment

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Olympics. We were testing rowers, archers--USA Today, CBS, newspaper people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  early an age as possible. But today she expanded on that mission and

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  Lots of questions waiting to be answered, but for today I'll just tackle those extremely time-sensitive questions from students still deciding... "Anonymous" wrote, "I have a Q: is MIT gay-friendly? (intl here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  today. My friend Satwik gave me the sad news this week that Howard Brown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005