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  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  standard 12-unit MIT class. At the beginning of the semester, I heard there

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for about three weeks –…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  So, it’s the middle of January and although it was an unseasonably warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I learned quickly after joining the…

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  I have done exactly three things since winter holiday ennui sprouted all over the dessicated grids of my post-semester calendar: 1.Baked bread. 2.Read Feynman. 3.Written this list. On second thought,…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  , meaning that we learn to *gasp* manufacture and machine things. MIT has

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The beeping oh god the beeping it’s driving me insane I am so tired and then it stops, only…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  life. But then I checked the forum on the course website (MIT has a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  all of the courses at MIT are numbered, but where do we get off throwing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  arrived back at MIT and started dealing with all the conveniences bought by

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• 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 / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? When the cartoon “Underdog” was syndicated in the 1980s and 1990s, all scenes that showed Underdog taking his Underdog Super Energy Pill were edited out because censors…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  know, I know, Harvard isn't MIT. That doesn't make the tests and research

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  to go to class. ("Next Monday, I promise!") Great! Good. Get into MIT

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  't seen her blog since I got hooked to the MIT site - four months ago. Is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  So you’re flying to college. Or you’re flying anywhere alone, and you’re me. You charge your iPod and your computer and pack extra underwear and think about all the new…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  Engineering Museum, which is a strange destination for like 7 MIT students who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  left (in that respect, it was like most of my MIT problem sets last term

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  frequent commenter on the blogs, a current MIT mom, my friend, and an all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel Triton, where I am hanging out after my UCSF interview, waiting for the shuttle to take me to SFO…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I’m working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10.302: Transport Processes homework. I have a busload to do this weekend and I’m going to…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005