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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  down. Life, college, career -- it's not a race.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Almost all household plumbing originally contained lead, which was a bad thing for kids, since lead ions in aqueous solution taste sweet, but also promote brain damage.…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT means “WITH” in German. CPW! CPW! Hey prefrosh, I hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and that all your travel…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow! Anonymous asked, “Hi, Mollie! How did you and Adam get matched up with your “starter child” (pre-frosh) for…

  • 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 when she ran out of…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  of my life. Now I didn't know about the Pi-Day mailing date tradition

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  my terribly interesting life. This is my first ever blog entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  Unseasonably gorgeous February days Last Thursday, for whatever reason (*cough* global warming *cough*), it was 54F (12C) and sunny. I got out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  First, some updates: A few people have asked about information on applying to engineering graduate programs at MIT. I am trying to find that information; first I emailed one of…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of chocolate cake.) Burning…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  derived, do a couple sample problems, maybe see a real life application, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn’t ready for this…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  what kind of nonsense this was, but it was making my life very difficult

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  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.

  

  worth-more-than-my-life confocal microscope. (I'm not kidding. If you were

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I really want to do them all justice, so I’m gonna answer them next week, when my…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  “…albeit a very useful one.” –Albert Einstein I think I found the coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I’m MIT’s biggest fan of reality television… well, I’ve declared…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  presumably the last non-science paper I will ever have to write. In my life

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

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  First, I will note with some sadness that it is currently raining outside. I hate winter rain — it could be snowing so much more productively. It is apparently supposed…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ...for instance, maybe chronicle the "life" of a single (anonymous) application, its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005