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  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  Spring term classes started a few weeks ago, and hence all of us (students, faculty and staff) are back into the rhythm of the academic season. This may sound like…

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The airport in Portland, Oregon has free wireless. I have discovered this on my way back from a West Coast chemical engineering graduate school of some repute.…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It’s a graduate design workshop in the School of Architecture and Planning’s Mobile…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  How do you go from taking 5 classes a term to only taking 2? You would think it’s easy, but it’s really not. So this semester is the FIRST SEMESTER…

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  Most of my weeks at MIT have been crazy and cool and full of interesting things about which I can’t wait to blog. The rest of the weeks, though, are…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  I’m taking 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) this semester, which is interesting, to say the least. Orgo is notorious for being slightly less fun than having your feet cut off, but I…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I’ll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I’m enjoying committee this year even…

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Tyra Banks is 5’10” tall and weighs 161 lbs. I am 5’9 3/4″ tall and weight 150 lbs. I have taken a cue from fellow blogger Lulu…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there been a program like Design Squad – a new reality design competition series produced by…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  As promised, I come bearing more pictures, Some of these are courtesy of Hanna, Dorota, and Jake, all fellow frosh. Here are some from the fourth floor: This is the…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  Friday evening was the unveiling of the Class of 2009 Brass Rat. Ring Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT undergrad experience. A lot…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? All the giant robot fighting clips in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are really just clips from some unrelated Japanese show. The reason that they keep changing to…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year’s new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) “The…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  A few weeks back, MIT’s most famous fictitious current student, Alex Doonesbury ’10, had an exciting IAP, doing the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition (not to mention Palmistry, Advanced Sudoku,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  This entry is a lot of things. Read! First here are some pictures from freshman year. This is the dorm room which I shared with Kelly ’09, all dressed up…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I decided to do you one better and give you a bit of a dorm tour! So…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  [by Mirat Shah ’08] Sorry, I will try and write more regularly in the future. The first few weeks of term have been really hectic, mostly because I didn’t do…

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  [by Gilad Evrony ’07] I think it was around junior year that it occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to learn…

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT’s video podcast, is up… check it out! Let us know what you think, either in the comments section below or at the…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007