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• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  the extraordinary holiday dinner party for Course 17: Political Science ... afternoon, nothing happened to me for like two weeks. Oh, except I saw this Futurama clip and laughed for like three or four days straight. But then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application ... . Ryan, Pennsylvania Click on the image for a flash animation: Carla ... 30-minute meals. People always tell me that I have no reason for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  -shifting' for modern time, media Robin H. Ray, News Office Correspondent ... for good. Instead, producers, writers and filmmakers must engage in ... to imagine future directions and applications for our more

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  working for Lockheed Martin as an engineer and project planner when i get ... Oregon for an outdoor-sy family vacation. Anything else? I've run into a ... summer? Astrophysics UROP Where? The Kavli Institute for Space Research in

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

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  Questions 1. Sevi asked, here is a question for you about Mac ... for many dorms was just put in last summer. There is a website with floorplans for MIT buildings, but I think it's only accessible on campus. I don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  'm studying Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering, for instance ... take anyway) -18.03 for the Harvard-HST Program English: -2 terms of ... said it wasn't a good school for premeds. In some cases, this is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  the song for this medley, since that's pretty much the one song in the ... about 1 male for every 2 females, I sometimes forget that the actual MIT ... Engineering Project Laboratory -- YES! We had 15 projects to choose from for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 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…

  

  time in the Pappalardo Lab and the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity ... tell, this is a very expensive class for MIT to run and we're all really ... the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity, our job was to take the

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

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  '08, who lives in my suite, and had a sudden craving for garlic bread ... : As we worked, Akash talked about his plans for the 2009 Class Council ... Potter!' So I think I'm going to put together an event for MIT '09s to go

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  , for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier ... of all, props to Nehalita for properly identifying him right away ... on a project for FSAE when I passed this inconspicuous door... Woodie

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  day, which was neat for me because I was actually born in Philly. My ... at Tangerine. Not cheap, but I'd been eating junk for a week so I ... had a nice dinner with Joe DiLiberto, the regional EC chair for central

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National ... professional association for guidance counselors and admissions officers, and once a year they gather for a conference. This year's conference was in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  silly silly vern vern. So, read on for a well-crafted narrative and ... a stunned grouse, for one hour, nine minutes, and seventeen seconds, and then I came home and passed out on my floor for two hours. Ah, it

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

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

  

  time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful ... charged with admitting a Class of 2010. And even for students who have had ... normalcy returns. Please know that for students directly affected by this

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

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  former Rush chair for MacGregor, agrees with me. One question I hear ... intending to stay there. What value is there for me in looking at different ... 've found something you like so quickly, and maybe it is the best place for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  it, and we met in the Anthropology Department's conference room for ... " and refuse the food. For some reason, this really bothered Sam -- maybe ... program for students who want to go to medical school. MIT has no official

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  Lab at MIT's Center for Cancer Research studying the delivery of small-interfering RNA (siRNA) in mice. It may seem odd for a student like me, who plans ... goes well, this mouse model can be used to create a therapy for influenza

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some ... 's mother deserves an Academy Award just for her bizarre facial tics and for ... their store set up for the book's arrival, so we got neither lightning nor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  , so before PetCo we stopped in at Borders for smoothies. They had Magic ... what they were getting ready for) Now I've had pets in the past, but ... -German Shepard mix, Toby. My younger brother got it for his birthday a few years

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years ... was really supportive and helpful to me back when I was running for UAVP ... East walked to Sicilia's Pizza for dinner. We'd all ordered it before for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005