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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  I think it was Snively who called this the “freebie” entry: describing the classes you’re taking in a given semester. Well, now that I’m a first semester senior who just…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  , and serious student group (n.b. I saw their president last week and she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  , Chemistry: Bronze (n.b. There were no seniors on the US International Biology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  So. I know a lot of you reading this are Americans, which means that the word “football” means a sport played neither with feet nor anything resembling a normally shaped…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  total n00b when you get to MIT. I'll help you out. First, pronouncing

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  Go read about the Big News first. (I considered adding spoiler space here, but um…that’d just be weird. Because the rest of this entry is SO TOTALLY NORMAL and all,…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  This IAP I took Italian I, and it was basically awesome. You might be wondering about MIT’s language department, considering that….it’s MIT, and languages don’t involve math and all. First…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I came across a…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I’m proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT’s machine shops. As you can imagine, especially considering…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  After a lot of searching, I’ve discovered a video on YouTube that is pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far. It starts…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  Through N. A. Substitution nucs attack Electron withdrawing groups make it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  also because: and and Me n my travel buddy: Also, I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  Ben's Cookie Fund (http://www-tech.mit.edu/V125/PDF/N16.pdf)? Since I've been

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  Sorry I’ve been MIA lately- I’ve been taking 2.670 (Intro to Machine Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students during the afternoons, taking The…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  Like you might have read on some of the other blogs, the EA Telethon was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  Well, I got my wisdom teeth pulled on Thursday afternoon, and I’m happy to report that I feel much better now. I was seriously out of it until yesterday morning,…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. It’s you. The person reading this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers, and commenters are an even…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  So way back awhile ago, after I stopped blogging for extended periods of time (sorry!) and after Ruth’s balloon adventure, I headed over to Bryan’s fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  So I thought I’d show you just what I was talking about in my last entry where I talk about the horrible trigonometric torture I endured in my 2.001 lecture.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  that isn't Kim or Rizos or Lzhpb*n!xobile is code for "JEWISH!" in Hillel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006