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  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  Hey friends, I’d like to pass along a message from Jennifer Li, the Event Outreach Chair of MIT’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE) – one of the most active groups…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

    On Friday, I’d had it. I was coming off of one of those weeks that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped. I ran…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed… but I’ve been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you unfamiliar with the…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  This fall, I'm covering the 2011 Istanbul Biennial, titled "Untitled." Now more than ever, the divide has formed in contemporary art: those concerned with formal aesthetics and those concerned with…

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  On Friday afternoon, the students and staff of the senior capstone Mechanical Engineering course 2.009: Product Engineering Processes took to Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome)…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my family’s basement, which contained my father’s office, flooded during a terrible rain storm. My father,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around, and left me in a somewhat disheveled state. There’s homework, lab, extracurriculars, office hours – so much…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  Summer Vacation – /ˈsəmər/ /vāˈkāSHən/ Defined as the period between grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of necessity but out of enjoyment, and…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  This morning, MIT alum Adam Riess ’92 won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Adam Riess, MIT Class of 1992, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2011 Riess, who is just 41 years…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on four different outfits before deciding which combination of shorts and baggy t-shirt to p-set…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There’s something happening here what it is ain't exactly clear

  

  Working on a big project. A big awesome project. Can’t tell you what it is. But here’s a sneak peak. Make of it what you will.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  Guest post today from Mark F. ’15, who was working on this essay for a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with y’all: There will come…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night before and slid…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  As it says in my introduction, I used to sing in the MIT Logarhythms (an all-male a cappella group), and still keep up with the group as a “logalum”. Recently, they…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I’m not actually active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won’t have much time to fly until post-MIT…

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that Lifehouse is performing…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  Go back to December 16, 2010. It was just another Thursday night, the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal. More importantly,…

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  closed! at 10:54 EST. so i can go to bed without worrying about whom I’m not answering. thanks all!  Today is Sunday. I am at home. After I do a…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  I’m not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up in the ‘sphere nowadays), but my recent, unintended hiatus might have confused you into thinking that…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  So I’m currently at NACAC in New Orleans. I’ll post more about the awesome people I’m meeting (and delicious food I’m eating) next week. But right now, I’d like to…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011