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  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  Imagine, if you will, the following situation… You join a dense crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by people ushering you inside; the…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  Approximately one three-hundred-sixty-fifth of the people who read this blog post on any given day will be floored that some MIT admissions blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  For those of you who missed the blog post subtitle: “You might fit in at MIT if…” you love being miserable! Now wait just a second while I clean up…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn’t arrive back to MIT until the last possible moment, Registration Day (last Tuesday, September 7). I know some people feel the week or two…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  “So, you gonna play?” I said, raising an eyebrow expectantly at Daniel M. ’14. It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard—littered with trees and illuminated by…

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  It’s amazing sometimes how much life at MIT can seem removed from the rest of the world. After a summer full of restful night’s sleep, books read purely for pleasure,…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  Well hey there, blogosphere. Newbie #4 here. To the admissions officers here, I’m known as the girl who draws things during class and has a somewhat-creepy fascination with all things…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I was…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago. It was a momentous occasion in my life, a turning point from which there is…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Inside the Webcast Studio sneak preview...

  

  Sorry for the abrupt ending – had to start the show!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 14, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Just a little hack… You never know what you'll see on your way to class

  

  Just a quick little footage of a hack I found this morning in Lobby 7. Sorry for the bad quality, I just took out my Blackberry and shot it!

  • by Celena C. '12
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  One of the things I truly love about MIT is that you never know when you’ll learn, stumble-upon and/or be run over by something new. While waiting in line for…

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  Beginning tomorrow through the middle of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT Media Lab, which is great for me because it gives me an excuse to go visit…

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  Today is the first day of the Fall Semester at MIT, and thus is the first day of classes ever for the MIT Class of 2014. The past couple of…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y’all! I’m up north in my ancestral woods of New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of consciousness between an otherwise…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  These past few days have felt as though they’re from someone else’s life. While typically I sleep early, avoid daily runs, and don’t take things that don’t belong to me,…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation Lots of fun with picture pages

  

  Wondering what our new freshman are up to this week (aside from the usual East Campus shenanigans)? This SlideShowPro photo gallery requires the Flash Player plugin and a web browser…

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Like Never Before Kevin Rustagi '11 talks about the MIT LMC and then some.

  

  Hey you guys! I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Rustagi ’11 and interviewing him at the Guitar Center about his club: the MIT LMC (Live Music Connection). To…

  • by Celena C. '12
  • August 30, 2010