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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  my own entry about the same subject for a while now. I have also been ... people really seem to hate the deferral idea. Their reasoning seems fair enough, considering it aligns pretty much exactly with the hesitations I

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  students reprieve and respite from the constant deluge of problem sets, essays, and tests so commonly found throughout the dread halls of the ... , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus printers (unless you take the action to turn it off), the printer ... page has your MIT username in the top corner, so you can quickly and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level, it almost seems as if campus is constantly brimming over from the sheer ... MIT. At the same time, though, I have come to realize that MIT's faculty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien. For the past month, Conan's show has been airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I ... say the L-word on this blog?), I won't deny that some small part of me ... initiated into the brotherhood, along with ten classmates, last Saturday. The

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  . Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others that have already received the invitation to join us here at Cambridge ... finished with the vast majority of your college applications within the next

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  Recently Evan's mother, who is, for the record, so cool, sent the ... be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this ... 'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately ... . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on the topic of knowledge, and from there, school. Classes have started, as

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  I'm always one to celebrate the more obscure holidays. After all, they receive the least press, the least Hallmark coverage, and most importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  Hi folks, I just learned from the folks who support my.mit.edu that ... the bottom of that asap, but in the meantime, if you've already ... information still appears on the CPW registration page. If the registration page

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... reserves are drying out, glaciers are melting, and the world’s supply ... control. A small group of MIT undergraduates forming the group Biodiesel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  might be interested. 9.07 (Statistical Methods) - It's the probability ... class (either 9.07 or one of the others) for the major. Honestly, I hate the textbook more than just about any other textbook I've had to use

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our ... last year's 11,373 applications. So, the results of the guessing game ... ,000 applications. The mean of all guesses was 12,323 (not bad!) and the median was 12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I've been TAing this IAP) is tomorrow evening, and I am excited. The teams ... the photos, and that she asked them, "Er, what's with the smoke?" or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative ... sabbatical dramatically changed her research efforts. You will hear the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Status Deadline to schedule interview for EA applicants extended.

  

  As you've likely noticed by now, the MyMIT site has been down since yesterday due to a hardware issue - we apologize for any inconvenience. The tech gurus have been working around the clock to fix it, but they're not

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack for everyone to enjoy while, as the name implies, breaking from their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... know what the gender ratio is at MIT in engineering (mechE/ECE/ChemE/BioE etc), AFTER four years? I really like that MIT has gotten the admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer ... ice cream on Sunday, I will celebrate this holiday belatedly. The ... ice cream eateries, and the ones I listed above are all within walking

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006