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  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a second for that…

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  Daniel Parker Sophomore MIT-Russia Program Internship: Agency for Journalistic Investigation (AJUR) and RIA Novosti. This post was first published on http://dfactorial.tumblr.com I wrote an article about

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  All around North America, it’s been a pretty snowless winter. Some people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time for them and the less…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  MIT, how I feel about them, what I loved, what I'd do differently

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  numbers and MIT selects "prime" candidates - is that a reason for the date

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining ... in the things that we do here at MIT and who will go out and change the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them once - there is an iterative process in which many applications are seen

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  of my biggest reasons for choosing MIT. But back to the scene at hand

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  happens when you work at MIT. I suffered a near-death experience and the ... day I went in to MIT Medical and got checked up / xrayed - all fine

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  : MIT Admissions Office Subject: Apple Pie Date: Thurs, March 10, 2011 at

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  were the MIT Logarhythms: one of the Institvte's most well-known a ... , exist only to tool*. *to tool: verb. When used by MIT students, means "to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  bizarre statuettes, Alex does art in MIT's Media Lab. There was a coffee ... MIT, and did work on campus until 11 PM on Sunday night. I survived the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with shadows peeling off like blue…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  . (Definition of MIT, #129: The ability to Taylor expand your states of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  your schedule. Easy, over, done. However, the nature of MIT lends itself ... about, but in the sense that MIT gives you the topic with little effort on ... MIT. Despite all my studying, my test average is now a 50.5 in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  Spring Break, swerved cleanly out of MIT. But, enough with preliminary ... ever find yourself at MIT with 48 hours of absolutely nothing worth doing ... running into each other hundreds of miles away from MIT in a city with over

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  nerdiest, most MIT thank you anyone could ever have thought up. And it was

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me totally and completed hosed.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  they too were MIT students catching the midnight show. We had a nice chat ... about 1am. As the hordes of MIT kids exited the theatre, I miraculously ... , Sara, and Anya, all '10) and MIT stories. We had a nice chat about how

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008