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• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of the hypothesis “wanting something doesn’t make it real”, we find one physically significant counter-example to this premise. Let’s start from…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  Let me start with a confession. Last year, if you had told me that I was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  Recently Evan’s mother, who is, for the record, so cool, sent the bloggers an email about a $10,000 scholarship for any bloggers who attend college. I happen to fit both…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  As Technology Review’s 2007 Top Young Innovator of the Year, MIT grad Dr. David Berry knows a thing or two about success. Though he is only 29 years old, he…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if you’re not the punter. My name is Lucy and I’m a junior studying civil engineering. I’m participating…

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  [by CDT Greg Wellman ’09] For the second time in my life, I had the chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was nothing short of…

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  Three summers ago, I visited MIT with one of my fellow schoolmates. We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME), and we decided to…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  An Atypical Saturday: That followed an atypical week MIT is certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is; they ask how your week…

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  Last week I had my first exam, shortly to be followed by two others, and I’m happy to say that I suffer from this painful disease that seems particularly contagious…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  Hi, I’m Karen and like most other freshmen, I’m still working on my time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally get started on here.…

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  I’ve never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I’ve always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of sisterhood and the chanting…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  If you are a senior, you know that you are playing for all the marbles this year. You know that it is important that you take proper time and care…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I’m back! I’m determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to last for…

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  So where have I been? Short answer: doing work. Or just at work. I just got a UROP doing chemistry and molecular biology-related stuff in the O’Connor Lab, guaranteeing me…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  Yeah, I know. It’s a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear with me, because it’ll seem really appropriate once I explain it (Bonus points for anyone who…

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  In case you haven’t checked your MyMIT account lately, I thought I’d mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can stay overnight on campus beginning…

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It’s been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to MIT – it’s been a crazy few weeks, but I’m finally settled in and ready to blog.…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  “…only uninterested people.” I kind of hate coming up with titles, so when I can’t, I scour the internet for a quote that’s moderately related to what I’m writing about.…

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  [By Anjali T. ’09] This summer, I didn’t happen to pull off what Jules Verne was envisioning, but I did spend eighty-three incredible days in Paris, France working at the…

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007