2006
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December 2006
- Deep Breaths
- Home is where the heart (of Texas) is
- Deadline-time Questions Omnibus
- Holiday Gifts, MIT Style
- What the end of the semester does to Conner 2
- I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long
- MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions
- ‘Twas the night before Christmas
- Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer
- Adventures in Logan Airport
- Time and change
- Soy Bomb
- The Promise of Ending
- Back in Time
- Somewhat Random
- Happy Holidays!
- Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006
- NY Times article on women in science
- Motivation
- New ZigZag and more
- Congratulations! You have been named…
- ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final
- 21st Century Education?
- Blast from the Past
- Worlds within worlds
- Because one story just isn’t enough
- Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story
- Where’s Waldo?
- Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery
- More For Deferred Students
- More For Admitted Students
- Open Thread: Admitted
- Open Thread: Deferred
- Early Action
- Guest Entry: Christina Bognet
- Candyland @ MIT
- High Stakes
- A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity
- Be Our Guest
- While You Wait…
- Return of the Frog Queen
- Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior
- We Brought Something?
- We’re Bringing What Back?
- We’re Bringing Snowflakes Back
- Update from selection
- Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions
- Children of Eden, seek for your garden.
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons
- If You Wish To Receive Your Decision Online…
November 2006
- Looking ahead to IAP
- Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson
- Edmund’s New Toy
- What should I be doing now?
- Weather Sensitive
- Video: Friendly Robots!
- Video: New Zigzag
- The ‘Game’
- Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!!
- You know my name
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad
- A Cautionary Tale of Two Students
- Answers To Your Questions
- The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers
- Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too
- Get Your Wii On.
- Conditioner For My Face
- Admissions advice from someone who’s been there
- A Tale of Two Majors
- Sorry, no dorms yet but…
- Grind Time
- A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years
- Think YOUR research is crazy?
- Senior Gift Kickoff
- Summertime, and the livin’ is easy
- Food? What?
- Some Time in New York City
- Writing Workshop
- Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology
- My night with 8.03
- If man is five
- Photographic evidence
- Beat It, Bump It, Spike It
- Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka
- Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1
- My First Full Reading Day
- Sorry 6.003
- Are We Dating?
- D-Lab Food Fest
- Delayed Reaction
- The only living boy in New York
- Everybody LOVES a math joke
- You’ve got questions…
- For great justice…
- Who you gonna call?
- Hey VMars fans
- Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome
- The Bicycle Diaries
- See your name among the stars…
- Reliving the good ol’ days
- Long Overdue Q&A Post
- Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books
- EA Deadline
October 2006
- Happy Halloween
- Having Trouble Reaching Your EC?
- More On The Interview…
- Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever
- Cultura
- Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats
- A week of work
- Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs
- Ice cream and an onion
- Breakfast with a Genius
- Making Things Fly
- Wolverine
- A Student, A Professor, An Alum
- Halloween Preparations
- How to Foil a UFO Abduction
- Apple Sculptures
- On Supplemental Materials
- More On The Interview…
- A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT
- Are you sure you don’t want to cancel?
- Hi, I’m Lulu
- Oh, sweet freedom?
- October ‘06 Questions Omnibus
- I like romantic things like music and art
- I’m Kind of a Big Deal
- Paul Farmer at the Broad
- This doesn’t suck
- The Latest Updates
- Application Advice v2.0
- MyMIT Status
- Hi, I’m New Here
- Thoughts On The MIT Interview
- Television Show Decisions
- Learn from my Mistake
- Business As Usual
- The Interview: 10/20 Approaches
- A Typical Day on the Road
- Meditation Mondays
- The swing of things
- Past, present, and future
- Leaf in Face
- On APs
- O, GRE Battle
- Colin Jackson is awesome
- No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT
- zOMG Zambia!
- Dean Marilee Jones in the news
- Aditl
- Everything in moderation…even moderation.
- Food That Makes You Feel Like Home
- Build awesome
- Reischauer Scholars Program
- You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers
- Meow
- Videos and photos and more
- You Gave Love A Bad Name
- Questions and Answers
- Like a freshman
- What do you want to know?
- Pimp my sukkah.
- MIT Nightlife, Part II
- The Nobel Connection
- Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls
- Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced
- Autumn Questions Omnibus
- Nuns, fret not!
- Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project
- Freedom isn’t free.
- Go Forth and Measure
- 5E Rush Photos
- East Campus Rush photos
- It’s driving me nuts
- Retreat! Retreat!
September 2006
- Rocky Mountain Round-Up
- Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show
- I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down
- Holiday
- Crazy Day
- Taking Shape
- The career fair and emerging pop stars
- Boys like cars and money
- A Reason to Celebrate
- Some summer pictures
- Mnemonic Contest Winner
- Testing the Waters
- ZigZag 10
- Flavor of Love
- The Big MIT Career Fair
- Amazin’
- The Contest Continues
- Born Under Punches
- Marilee Jones in the news
- Bay Area wrap-up
- Stud/Fac Dinners
- Pluto replies
- Lit Analytics
- Remember to Breathe
- Extracurricular Information
- Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology
- It happens to Helen
- Stocking Up
- There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium…
- A Re-Introduction of Sorts
- The Birth Of My Third Child
- Someone saved my life tonight
- Questions Omnibus
- As though we weren’t hosed enough…
- Reno/Sacramento wrap-up
- It’s that time of the year again
- And term starts again…
- I don’t know where we’re going
- Friday
- Hartford meeting wrap-up
- Classes – Fall 06
- Photo of the Day – Installment #1
- The waking of all creatures that live on the land
- First day of school
- I’m Back!
- Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term
- Homeschooled applicants
- Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On!
- So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu
- From Cambridge to You
- RA Blogger Applications Due Wednesday 9/6 At Noon
- When I’m Home
- Two quick items from the web
- Summer Programs For MIT Students
- Passing Out
- Two answers on a Saturday night
- FREE FOOD!
- Don’t Dump
- The Kim Affair
- Heading back up
August 2006
- Photo Contest, Round 2
- Public service announcement
- And I realize I’m going home
- DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?)
- A Room with a Vieux
- ZigZag Episode 9
- Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to…
- Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes
- Everything’s coming up Milhouse!
- MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada
- Back to Boston
- Photo Contest, Round 1
- Value added
- Redefinitions
- The best picture we took in Paris
- Pre-Orientation Begins
- Come on, let’s go food truckin’
- 50 Things
- I read the news today
- Home safe
- A Sign of Things to Come
- The second-best picture we took in Paris
- Time Difference
- Gee, my life’s a funny thing
- Straight from the Dean’s mouth
- Biking the bridge
- Summer Lovin’
- My Brass Rat
- Want a bike?
- “MIT Abounds With UROP Students”
- We open in Venice
- A Preview Of My Summer Project
- MVEMJSUNP
- Where are you going, where have you been?
- I Love Math
- A Quick Update
- Felicitation
- Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut
- A Half-Century of Hacking
- Solicitation
- “Who Needs Harvard?”
- We Started the Fire
- Buying books
- A Man of Many Hat(ches)
- Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet
- Things you might have wanted to know
- You Are LUSCIOUS
- Schedules and expectations
- First term freshman year
- From across the Web…
- To BE or not to BE
- The Rapids
- Where is the banana…
- Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering
- Turkey vs. Spam sells out
- Meta
- Who’s that new kid?
- Keep it simple, stupid
- Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living?
- Return of the Nance Effect
- The good advice
- A quick plug
- Swiss Miss
- You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers
- August Questions Omnibus 1
- EA Blogger Application Decisions
- +1 for MIT
- The best Metro station ever
- Teatro ZinZanni
- MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan
- Pictures of me
- MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds
- Ten Things I Hate About Europe
- MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith
- More entries about buildings and food
- Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas
- MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar
- The Number Game
- College must-haves
- Double legacy
- MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone
- Look as good you will not
- I Am Not As Lame As I Appear
July 2006
- MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea
- Round here we stay up very, very late
- MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber
- MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen
- MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four
- Building, building, building, building
- MIT ‘10: The Plano Four
- Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair
- I Wish I Was an Astronaut
- Re-introduction
- MIT ‘10s in the news
- MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores
- A Day at the Races
- Class of 2010 profile
- Howdy
- He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice
- Gotta Catch ‘Em All!
- The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane
- Just some potpourri
- Summer reading: “The Language of God”
- It’s the terror of knowing
- Once upon a time
- Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury!
- What can you do in four years?
- Uh Oh
- And sometimes why?
- East Campus, Part Two
- International conference followup
- SF AIDS Walk – Part II
- To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question
- Rosalind Franklin and Kent State
- A Case of the Saturdays
- Standing out
- Lodger
- Summer restaurant recommendations
- “Heroes”
- Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health
- Low
- Bubbles and UROPs
- What makes me an MIT student?
- A slightly snarkier guide to visitors
- So You Wanna Be A Blogger?
- Visiting MIT & Boston colleges
- Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You?
- Making friends
- AIDS Walk San Francisco
- Wir fahren nach Berlin!
- The Ultimate Showdown
- Back From Vacation
- World Cup Final in Boston
- World Cup Finals
- The LiveJournal Survey
- The Unfolding of Language
- Freedom costs a buck-oh-five
- The MySpace Survey
- Ponderings of a lifeguard
- July 4th Pictorial
- ZigZag Episode 8
- Bonn, Games, Bonn
- The Xanga Survey
- Yes, I am still alive
- July Questions Omnibus 1
- Crazy admissions stories
- Happy 4th of July!
- I saw fireworks from the freeway…
- Antietam? I hardly knew him.
- What do you want to hear about?
- 4th of July Celebrations
- Recipe for Fun
- Useful items to bring for dorm room
- Cellular neurobiology
June 2006
- I jumped into the river
- 2006 MIT Admissions Statistics
- Bavarian Rhapsody
- Number Münchners
- Gimme a “C”!
- May 4, 2007
- East Campus, Part One
- Call Me, Emeril
- All About the MCATs
- Circus School
- Neurony goodness
- Like a Polaroid Picture
- Greetings from Switzerland
- PrimeShooter
- I’m not swollen anymore!
- She works hard for the money
- Reality TV
- Accidents Happen
- Wouldn’t it be Nice?
- Perfect weekend
- Where are you going with this?
- Q & A
- ZigZag Episode 7
- World Cup Challenge Results
- Ecosystems And Web Sites
- Four years, four summers
- Toga, Toga, Toga
- Give the girl what she wants
- World Cup Challenge
- MEng (Masters of Engineering)
- Always A Toys ‘R Us Kid
- MIT Reunion Weekend
- Last train to Koblenz
- Summer plans
- The sun comes up, then goes away
- Answering some questions
- MIT Graduation Webcast
- Senior Week: Anjum Sharma
- The College Circle of Life
- Domr
- All Over Again
- More about Residence Based Advising
- Scooper Bowl
- Thoughts On Global Leadership
- An actual day in the lab
- Hooked on a Feeling
- Idiots! MIT hacked the poll!
- Back in MD
- Senior Week: Jonathan Lii
- Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon
- Senior Week
- Lazy hazy crazy
- A point to clarify
- Advising @ MIT
- “Why does my kid have to move again?”
- Thanks 1
- ZigZag Episode 6
- A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee
- Piece of my Heart
May 2006
- Vindicated!
- End of May updates
- Marking time
- Update from Kentucky
- Far and Away
- Fear of Flying
- Scheduling Conflict
- Roadtrip!
- In a little while, I’ll be gone
- Doonesbury Conclusion
- Next steps
- Varsity Blogging
- Quick updates
- May 25, 2006
- Catching up
- American Idol?
- More Doonesbury
- MIT ‘10s: Prom, Graduation, And Other End-Of-Year Photos
- Nike+iPod
- Who we are
- An Entrepreneur’s Story
- #9 Dream
- nothing special
- Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no.
- Finals!
- ZigZag Episode 5
- A speech, of sorts
- Mid-May Update
- Fitting In
- An American Idol Math Question
- Surprising Research Results
- Excitement On The Road
- 2.007: Where even your smallest part matters
- No more school, no more books
- Aquatarkus
- Yet Another MIT 2010?
- 2.007 play by play
- Cancel all operations
- Admitted From The Waitlist?
- 2.007 Competition Tomorrow
- Activate Party Mode!
- Boston Pops
- Adventures in Camberville
- Activities, humanities, question-ities
- ISEF Review
- MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House
- MIT Dorms: Baker House
- The Suite Life
- MIT Dorms: Really Random
- Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends
- Brain Dump
- Mind the Gap (again)
- Surviving
- Play it again, Sam
- That Lovely Pre-Finals Period
- Dewey Love Libraries?
- It’s alive!
- Lots of questions today!
- Waitlist, Etc.
- Waitlist
- Dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss
- Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film?
- Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball
- You gotta have stuff
- He Zigs, He Zags
- Lip Sync & Toons
- Next Big Mailing is out
- Let It Bleed
- Quick updates
- The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee
- Bicycle Race
- MIT ISEF Reception
- Energy Forum
- Senioritis
- Dancing Days
- Class of 2010 Roll Call
- Goodbye, Hope to See You Again
- The Song Remains The Same
- Making Tracks
April 2006
- The Undecideds VII: Decided?
- The root of all evil
- Come to AXO Lip Sync!
- Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too
- Making your college decision
- Springtime for Interns in Germany
- The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Thursday
- DNA-mazing
- Neuroscience classes
- Dating At MIT: Episode 1
- Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap)
- The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix
- Go, ninja, go.
- Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT
- Whirlwind Weekend
- The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope
- Collective Apprehension
- Ring delivery!
- Tech Nomads
- You oughta know
- The Undecideds, Part 3
- This was meant to be written a week and a half ago
- My Long-Overdue CPW Recap
- The Undecideds, Part 2
- Almost Famous
- Advising and freshman formalities
- MIT Dorms: MacGregor House
- The Undecideds
- So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT
- I Tried to Ford the River
- April Questions Omnibus 1
- Psets from hell
- Back From Vacation
- Practical virology
- Don’t stop me now!
- Get Animated
- Sneak Preview
- Home on the range
- They may take our lives…
- Weekend Update
- Awkward Moment
- The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT
- Juniors: Sign up for SAT Subject Tests
- Adventures in Italy, Part 2
- “…being a geek works out…”
- Profiles in Courage
- Airplane boy strikes again
- CPW Wrapup
- Summary of CPW 2006
- Back to work
- Cannon Hack
- Back Bay 5K
- The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones
- The first step
- CPW 2006 Day 1
- Caltech, Bring IT on
- Just Saying
- MIT hacks Caltech
- Best. Hack. Ever.
- CPW 4 U
- Campus Preview Weekend
- Adventures in Italy, Part 1
- Questions & Coca-Cola Check-in
- CPW-related whatsits
- Fame
- Holy Cow
- Answers, and live updates
- Mitra, it’s your birthday.
- Since I Been Gone
- This is just a tribute
- Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands
- Your CPW Host
- I “less than 3” the Chorallaries
- Preparing for CPW
- Since U Been Gone
- Odds & Evens & Ends
March 2006
- Answering your questions
- Campus Preview Weekend
- Home sweet violet capital of Ohio
- Crazy Day
- FIRST fun
- A Post For Parents, Part 2
- MIT Cancer Research
- Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering
- HST Forum 2006… for real
- Google Maps is NOT the best.
- Bryan is alive and in Rome
- Admitted Updates
- Waitlist post
- Living la vida lab rat
- Rome
- Super Adventure Club
- Knowing me, knowing you
- Admitted Students Parties
- Congratulations! You got the job.
- Admitted Students: MyMIT Updated
- The Only Answer I Have
- Spring Break!
- It’s bigger than you, and you are not me.
- Uhoh
- You Heard It Here First
- Literature Tea & Mural Contest
- Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems
- MIT women
- All my pasts and futures
- The question thread
- Admitted!
- Not admitted
- Waitlisted
- Reading
- Admissions Decisions
- The Moment of Truth
- Poaching Imagination
- Cross-Cultural Conference
- It’s More Than A Job
- Don’t Worry, Be Happy
- Decisions are in the mail
- It’s All About The Process
- A Post For Parents, Part 1
- Won’t Be Long Now…
- Friday morning potpourri in lab
- I AM SO BUSY
- Antici
- Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight
- Academic Marathon
- The Ides of March
- Ides of March
- Adam makes a guest appearance
- Happy Pi Day
- Happy Pi Day!
- Pervnert
- Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog
- Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking
- Spring cleaning and miscellany
- My Second… Fifth Week?
- Selection = Finished
- Maybe later
- The Parafilm Effect
- Biochemistry at its finest!
- Newsflash!
- Financial Aid Tracking Portlet Now Available
- Another Day, Another Class
- The Role Of A Teacher
- Why I came to MIT
- Admissions Updates
- A person can develop a cough.
- Delicious Dilemma
- Online Decisions = YES
- Fondue: fun and done
- Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory
- Bio
- Conversations with graders
- Making it work.
- The interview life
- True Love
- Tomorrow is MacVicar day!
- MIT Meets The OC
- MIT wins the gold
- Hello from Palo Alto
- Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix
- More quick answers
- A Sweet Deal
February 2006
- Indra Nooyi presentation
- Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus
- Fun With Photoshop
- My Relaxing Weekend
- Professorial Help
- Super Top Secret Spy Action
- Vsepr
- Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire!
- Why I do what I do
- Holmstrom, et al.
- Small Get-together Friday
- A few quick answers
- Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions
- My Engineering Hero
- These are a few of my favorite things
- Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know
- Tuesday is the new black.
- Another hack
- Term time again
- Selection continues
- Trip to Princeton U
- The Decisions Are Not In The Mail
- “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow”
- Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection
- General Advice
- The Greek Way
- The Double Edged Sword
- Numbers are names too
- Going for the Au
- Spy vs. Spy
- Flowers in your hair
- And for my next trick…
- Post-Valentine Blog Roundup
- Class-tastic
- Our students, their stories.
- My Second First Week
- Introducing Two New MIT Students…
- Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A
- Love Potion No. 9
- Dies Irae
- A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels
- Q&A Round Two
- Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience
- Weathering the weather
- Chocolate Tasting
- For My Fellow Coffee Lovers
- Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!!
- Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho.
- Answering my own questions
- The Year of the Origami Dog
- I will begin again.
- Regarding Online Decisions
- Engagement Party
- Letting the days go by
- Spring Term 2006!
- The first of the lasts
- Baby Steps
- The New MIT Viewbook!
- The kindest cut
- UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77)
- “Freshman Musical Dorms”
- 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics
- Culture, not the bacterial kind
- Same as it ever was
- Kiss the Frog
- Mind and hand
- Not your stereotypical sorority girl
- Summerteeth
- Superbowl
- I, Robot
- Tuesdays with Linda
- It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining”
- Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated
January 2006
- Underneath your curves
- Love, organically
- Year of the Dog
- And now for the feature presentation…
- Get The Scoop
- Out of the lab and into the internet
- Other summer programs
- Randomness
- Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts
- Time passes
- EA Telethon!
- Television
- MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week
- I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world
- Smrt
- Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A
- January Questions Omnibus 1
- Seen and Not Seen
- Beautiful snowfall
- Saturday Roadtrip
- More on DesigNerds
- Where have I been for so long?
- I’m still here.
- Burning questions
- Grad school admissions
- Wow, work!
- 2.670 Summary
- Taste of the Middle Ages
- 2.670 Stirling Engine Spinoff
- Is this real?
- So I said to Einstein…
- Technology Happens
- 11,231 Applications
- Regarding The Tech Article
- We’re Up To Date!
- Bored at work
- Lucky Saturday the 14th
- It rocks to be me.
- 2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1
- Mystery Hunt Highlights
- The Coin Is Found!
- Evil Institute of Technology
- Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update
- Live from MYSTERY HUNT
- On Broadway
- MIT Athletics
- This is a song about being happy.
- Finally!
- Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow
- The Birth Of Baby Nance
- Just a Little Patience
- The most wonderful time of the year
- Musings on Graduate School
- Playing Doctor…
- First Days in NYC
- Keeping it Green
- Holiday Stories
- Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A
- A Visitor In My Own Hometown
- How A Blog Became A Community
- The land of the free and the home of the internet
- Just 5 Days Left!
- IAP, and trivia answers
- Some comments on topics of interest
- I won the game!
- State of the Mail
- I Am Prepared!
- Not an actual entry
- IAP 2006
- The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
- What have I been doing this break?
- New Year Notes
- Jeux sans frontieres
- 2006 Already?!?
- A New Year and a New ‘Do
- Peace Out, 2005