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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  Yes we dew. I am not very shy about my love and affection for the MIT library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I ... Science, and Course 17: Political Science. Yesterday, I spent 10

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  consisting entirely of "little people," and at least two of them are apparently ... thanks to my prefrosh George for being really independent and finding his ... preventing the theft of my laptop, and to all of the lovely prefrosh I had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  Two of my friends from UCLA are visiting, and we have had a busy first day. They both flew in early this morning, and we spent the whole day walking around the area in the glorious warmth and sunlight that

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  housemate and some others starred in "Crop Circles: Mystery in the Fields," which included such classics as the "Winnebago of Science" and the "Flammschmeisser." And, of course, you can catch Ankur '03 on Beauty and the Geek 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Both chocolate lava cake and peanut blossom cookies ... 's Mom and I have baked four award-winning nut rolls, a tradition that we ... liked cooking, and it's actually really come in handy in college, since my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  (rastrologist?) deliver a speech on economics. And in other news, Mollie '06 ... experience" of his life. BREAKING NEWS: A video about MIT's "Sex and the ... Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) 2005 with Laura Stuart (head of the class and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  me out if I'm not already familiar with a community (and you'd be ... the US Census' American FactFinder. And what kind of high school do you ... probably sent along a profile of your school so we can learn about it (and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a ... judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to ... ten-year olds (and even staring at the pretty graphs on his poster), I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  and thus oxygen mass transfer in E. coli fermentation, and I'm doing it with three people. I volunteered to organize and compile it by 3 PM today ... you can" and "Oh, DON'T WORRY, we'll be cool if you just SEND ME a page

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... has one of the nation's top undergrad business schools, and I could even double major in both computer science and business. What a winning

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  4 8 15 16 23 42 If you already know what those numbers mean, this entry is for you.

  

  So I'm a Lost fanatic. Long-time readers know that Alias and The OC ... lead. I had lunch with Axiak last week and gave him the numbers. I figured if anyone could crack it, Random could. We'll see what he and his

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... theory and observation and also to improve the understanding of how these ... and the atmosphere, cleaned up the data, and then compared the stars

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  coast for about a week seeing family and will be gone for the next week as ... . :-) Today, I had lunch with Daniel and Ben at Anna's Taqueria, a quick ... time to put together, and I haven't been in front of a computer much

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 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…

  

  -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and equipment would be limited to extremely experienced graduate students and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... 's business, financial and retail capital and the largest city in the state," as ... sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 6

  

  York Times; also, Ben and I had a nice conversation about the Clay ... continue working on selecting the class. Today I worked with Marivel and ... international class, and putting together decision letters. This all takes quite a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  Thursday off (it was a holiday for MIT people). But Weds, Fri, Sat, and now ... though. He's been doing it forever and he's amazing. He'll look at files that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  for calculus) and calculus-based physics. It’s rare that an applicant is admitted without calculus and physics at the college level ... . Fortunately, each decision is made on a case-by-case basis and depends on your
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  , classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when traveling the corridor and note that pedestrian speed increases dramatically when classes let out. In mid-November and in late January every year
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  MIT undergrads come from every state in the country and approximately ... to the community, and each learns in their unique way. Although we can ... provides students with the opportunity to study and socialize as part of a