Search

Search Results

• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  my colleagues are still asleep - they deserve it! I'm sitting here ... amazing thing for me and calculated whether my job is net joy or net sorrow

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  exam study days. From my desk at Hayden Library, I watched the snow fall ... . Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  . But I found out all about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night during my Chinese ... felt compelled to go. So after eating dinner at my college, I headed over

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  well regardless. My wedding and honeymoon does mean I'll be off email and the blogs for the next two weeks. If you have a pending question, my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  applications such as biodegradable plastic production and bioremediation. My ... % yield. My research has centered on engineering a plasmid into Rhodococcus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  ) about the series(!) finale of my ex-favorite TV show, Veronica Mars. The ... . Just keeping up the theme. Angrily, Laura Which basically sums up my ... , while you're down there, please lick the bottom of my shoes and then don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you ... my dreams After the long workdays this week, I couldn't even escape CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am perfect today. Perfect? What do you mean, "perfect," you ask? Well, today is my birthday, and my age is now a perfect number. Perfect numbers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  students do these programs. Like I said in my earlier entry, a summer of ... chose for the majority of my summers in high school. Reading, doing sports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  Through my awesome D-Lab class, I am going to Zambia today until Jan 31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above ... of my groupmates is also conducting a survey on latrine usage. There

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  , this year my advisor, Linda Griffith, was named a MacArthur Fellow. Most ... . Speaking of UROP, tomorrow, I am giving the biggest presentation of my

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester ... for a while.] The double :-( :-( is my Friday. 2 - 4 pm

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  won't be taking it this term. =( But more on my actual class schedule later. For now, I have to stuff my entire life into boxes.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  Laura asked: "where can you get inexpensive, used textbooks? one of my friends said she spent $700 on books already...we can find used ... if you get there early you can buy a used copy. Also, it's been my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  This Sunday, I am participating in the 2006 AIDS Walk San Francisco. My friend Tiffany '06 invited me to join her company's team, and Laura ... AIDS Walk? Just click on the website address below to enter my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My ... yesterday. I watched the first 80 minutes of regulation play in my apartment

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  I've spent the last two weeks enjoying a nice vacation at my mom's house in Louisville, Kentucky. It's been great, and I might even have ... living in for the next two months, for my summer internship at EPFL (the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  three days of finals I packed my entire life into about twelve boxes and ... get my bearings, shop for travel-appropriate items, and see every single

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end up purchasing this product, I hope my friends interning at Apple this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006