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  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I ... crackers one night, it was time to own up to the fact that I was going to have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  couldn't help but chuckle when I picked up the notes outlining the topics scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this ... Dihydroxylation Ozonolysis The Chemistry of Free Radicals Addition of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass ... true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... minute nap on one of the couches down there (during which time I dreamed about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got tired quickly. We walked all the way from there to the Lusaka Post Office, and along the way stopped at three different bookstores looking for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  !) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer) interning at the headquarters of North America's second-largest railroad, BNSF

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... hall solely because I was really just that bad in the kitchen. Well, I ... . (No, not everything can be considered food by adding the term "flambé

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors ... . Before I go on, "hall" means "floor" -- if I ever use one or the other, now ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to ... sign taped beside the family computer: Sam's Mom always goes that extra mile. Today was the only day I'll be in Harrisburg between June 1st and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... . Me in fierce boffer combat with Dan '08 on the Random Hall roofdeck. Summer '05. Me at the Undergraduate Assocation President

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  'stin asked, "can you talk about the residence-based advising ... 'll answer the second question, first. For upperclassmen, they chose their classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  hall, and he hadn't been back in the building since the early 1970s. Talk ... to dinner following a "signing of the forms" (see above). We've had a few dinners like this throughout the year -- freshman advisors get money

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and has trouble understanding what one does on a vacation to the beach.) No ... , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... show what materials we have processed for you. We should have the ... . What happens if the tracking system is missing something? First, do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of ... 'm thinking why not just enter a PhD program off the bat? What I guess is nice about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and ... last month, in the Parents' Forum, which was discussing Marilee Jones

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the ... years under the guidance of Dr. Eric Hudson. Scanning tunneling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  improving my quality of life over the past 48 hours. 1. The Burton-Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment ... third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  While the period known as "End of term" certainly brings finals anxiety, it also brings many events and traditions celebrating the ... these, including the last 3.091 lecture (described here by Kevin), all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004