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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  Some fun around Boston and Cambridge lately: 1. Free Jewel concert at South Station on Friday night South Station is a transportation hub in Boston, conveniently 4 stops down on…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety and excitement. New classes, professors, deadlines, and activities…it can get pretty overwhelming. I’ve found myself having…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Things I have been doing since my last post: -Moving up a floor to a larger room with people I’ve been hanging out and doing work with since September. I…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on the same day. My comment to…

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  So this weekend my 61 of my fraternity brothers and I drove several miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester. They often…

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  There are certain…traits, shall we say, that are generally indicative of true MIT students. They’re the things that aren’t necessarily true of all MIT students, but are certainly not true…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  Dear friends and fellow CS people, My name is Kevin Wang and I’m currently a junior at MIT majoring in course VI-III. Melis has graciously offered me to write a…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  Today, MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over last year’s 11,373 applications. So, the results of…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  … but you should also research the weather. I am still mentally, physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent in Zambia. To make a long story…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications… I am perfect today. Perfect? What do you mean, “perfect,” you ask? Well, today is my birthday, and my age is now…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It’s hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school when I wasn’t totally jazzed about MIT. I got accepted, and that was pretty much it for…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I’ve been TAing this IAP) is tomorrow evening, and I am excited. The teams have been working very hard,…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT Museum’s Soap…

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  squeeeeeeeeee! real blog entry later today.

  

  I <3 Harry Potter. http://www.scholastic.com/aboutscholastic/news/press_02012007_CP.htm

  • by Bryan
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  This is a story of how two MIT students — one with a fabulous idea, but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  Every June 21st, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge to watch a very special sunrise. On this day, the summer solstice, the sun is perfectly positioned to shine through the…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  You can’t take any other classes in the Aero/Astro department until you’ve completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Last night, I watched an award winning cartoon about snails, “Les Escargots.” One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try to do all the…

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  Sorry I’ve been MIA lately- I’ve been taking 2.670 (Intro to Machine Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students during the afternoons, taking The…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written way back in early September (yeah, remember that?) Imagine you’re working on your first 18.02 pset. Okay,…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007