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  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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  Where in the World is The Nance Effect? That, my friends, is the million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice and experiences to…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  At orientation, we received a list of “101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT.” I immediately taped it onto my wall and I’ve been checking off activities ever…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  Just as you all have been preparing for one of life’s biggest rituals — applying to and going off to college — I, too, have been preparing for another of…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  After a lot of searching, I’ve discovered a video on YouTube that is pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far. It starts…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small fraction of the…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007