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  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  [by Justin ’08] “We are, we are, we are, we are…” The Engineer’s drinking song is being proudly sung by a pack of ever so slightly inebriated beavers. Our Harry…

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends Tonight, It Ends Tonight On this evening / I give the final blow...

  

  It all ends tonight. Last 8.02 exam. Last 14.01 pset. Last 5.111 pset. One all-nighter. Wish me luck. ;) The semester is really coming to an end! Freshman year is…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What’s up? Yeah, it’s the end of term, and we’re all hosed. The week before dead week is pretty stressful, as every class tries to cram in that last assignment.…

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  I have nothing but analysis left to do for the last Junior Lab experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I’ll probably go on…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I’ll spare you the “Oh the memories, it went by so fast, if only I had more time” crap…

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ’10] Around November, a crazy idea nested itself in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time–building my own 4×5 pinhole camera out…

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  If you didn’t already think that this past weekend at MIT was jam-packed with events like Senior Ball and Burton-Conner’s dinner cruise, then this will most definitely have you convinced:…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  Melis just blogged about Senior Ball so I figured that it’d be a good time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn’t just for seniors. Also, be…

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  Have you all had your high school proms yet? If your school doesn’t have prom or if you decided not to go, then you probably aren’t missing much. Prom is…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  [Justin ’08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I’m senior now heading off to math grad school next fall). I really appreciate Kathy’s post (A Day…

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face.) I’m mildly obsessed with the internet. Actually, mildly is putting it mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet.…

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash ’11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It’s one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and presenters to the MIT…

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  [by Kathy ’09] Hi guys! I’m here to talk about “life as a biochemist, at MIT and Cambridge.” I think the best way to illustrate the difference is to give…

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets alarm for 11:20 AM* 11:58 AM: *wakes up, peers at clock* *falls back asleep* [one second…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  So… tomorrow is that fateful day. May 1. Otherwise known as the Common Reply Date. The day by which you need to let your colleges know your decision. If you’re…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  I should have posted this entry five days ago. Sorry, world. But as awesome as blogging is, sometimes academics comes first – specifically, I’m referring to my 8.022 pset, my…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went…

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  Sorry for not having posted recently. It’s gotten to the point where the work is completely overwhelming and any time not spent working is time that feels like it’s being…

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  Pardon me for the grammatically incorrect tonight title (in the sardonic words of the ever-quotable Winston Churchill, “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put!”),…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  When I came back to England from Easter vacation, I was greeted by this at the local supermarket: The signs say Happy St. George’s Day, Wednesday 23 April and has…

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008