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  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  I’m finally in my last semester as an MIT undergraduate, and the majority of my time since classes have started has been spent doing something related to photography. I’ve taken…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  Of all the student groups I am involved with at MIT, the one that brings me the most happiness is Camp Kesem MIT. Those of you who have stuck with…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, ’87) and I spent some time here at the Institute. My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his name,…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  As you may have picked up from my post about SOPA, I’m an unashamed, unabashed law and policy geek. Before I began working at MIT, I was a Research Assistant…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It’s not Tennyson or anything, but… Oh MIT, OH MIT Many are the reasons why You mean…

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I arrived in Bath bright and…

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  If you’re considering MIT, you probably like to build things. Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was dedicated to LEGOs. I have…

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  I like being around people who can creatively keep themselves entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible tendency to sit fascinated for hours by…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  Happy Valentine’s Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven’t been trying to avoid blogging… but the last week of IAP was spent taking…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  As I mentioned last week, MIT is a place for talkin’. Looking at the photos from the speech competition, it’s clear that we were fully invested in our stories. The…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of a classroom project, a cool new toy, an internship with MISTI, participating in competitions like MIT’s $100K…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  I finished up my initial stay in Mumbai towards late December, and have been in Nepal since then. I am currently volunteering at a Buddhist monastery 30 minutes outside of…

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  Ents, bop, punting, pidge, Natsci, boatie, blues. Umh, say what? You might wonder whether these words are even English. Well, they are (I learnt them in England, from British people.)…

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  My computer reminded me of what we’re all thinking. Independent Activities Period (IAP) is long gone —-> You, like myself, may be wondering why it’s been so long since I…

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  I just restored my laptop to factory condition to get rid of an annoying virus or something that was preventing me from seeing my desktop and taskbar. Here's what I…

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And if you haven’t yet, you can take a look right here. MIT: Live the Puzzle…

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  Do you ever feel like you can’t do just one thing at a time? These days, I can’t watch TV (a real TV) without internet on my lap. I can’t…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions. There are lots of other things going…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  I’ve talked about how humor, networking, and great ideas are all important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it’s time to blog about something I…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  MIT has this uncanny way of making you learn life lessons extremely quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I’ve learned the following: (1) Work…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012