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Blog / MIT Life
Summer’s End To everything there is a season.
Yesterday, I finished my UROP. I cleaned up my bench, double-checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a quick exit interview with my… -
Blog / MIT Life
Two Cool Projects
In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check out two projects: (1) Sacha Yaku (“Jungle Water”) The brainchild of Kendra Johnson ’09, Sacha Yaku aims… -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…
behavior. As a maintainer of linux.mit.edu, the SIPB Linux dialup server -
Blog / Admissions
The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"
the advice I received from an MIT alum a while back. Throughout my time ... , Cambridge, like…here? Or are you from England?" My trek to MIT was very ... thought I'd try it since I've enjoyed reading the blogs on MyMIT. I can -
Blog / Events
AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?
On March 1st, this was posted on the MIT '12 Facebook discussion ... both would be staying at MIT over the break (flights to Oregon are ... hash browns and saw a girl with an MIT sweatshirt on. "Michelle, see -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."
. Things really do move fast at MIT. It's like the Reuse mailing list, which ... going to say about decisions. MIT is a just place - a set of buildings ... tens of thousands of people who have regretfully been rejected from MIT -
Blog / MIT Life
Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.
. (hosed = MIT slang for being so busy that your to-do list takes up an -
Blog / Events
Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…
So in case you didn’t know, there’s a eclipse going on. A total eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch it. I… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...
to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... couple of weeks of Easter break. So how are MIT students faring with this -
Blog / Academics & Research
5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.
Just finished reading Paul's entry about the Guy Fawkes hacks at MIT and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... couple of other MIT students, Maria and Xin: People and more people -
Blog / MIT Life
Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.
like MIT. We have a gym, a pool, a kitchen with free breakfast (including ... makes MIT's housing system so unique - most freshmen at other colleges get ... switch out. This is particularly important because each of MIT's dorms have -
Blog / MIT Life
Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.
my friends that I have a 4.0 at MIT! Granted, none of them know that we use a 5.0 scale, but that's not the point. I have a B average. At MIT. I ... emailing a few of you back and forth about all things MIT (and let's not -
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A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.
the Harvard Bridge from MIT. We had an exquisite dinner of cheese, meat -
Blog / Admissions
Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.
CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.
is a Strange Place, a lecture given by MIT Physics Professor and Nobel ... Feebleness of Gravity, and the Physics 2004 Nobel Colloquium on MIT World. -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.
alarms of any dorm on the MIT campus. Because just because you go to MIT ... and there's a fire alarm!" Because everybody at MIT talks like that and ... say on the back of our blogger t-shirts." "THIS IS THE REAL MIT!" I don -
Blog / Academics & Research
Off to Zambia
Through my awesome D-Lab class, I am going to Zambia today until Jan 31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above) We will spend the majority of… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Worlds within worlds
'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your ... atmosphere of MIT had been a letdown. He had expected, he explained, weirder ... they want a more social life, and they are drawn to MIT's academics but -
Blog / MIT Life
O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.
't really matter, at all, according to the MIT chemical engineering grad