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  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  life. Along with parties and such, I am talking about sports, activities ... 'll regard MIT with fresh eyes and renewed spirits. Plus, your friends will be terribly impressed with you.

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  , slightly delirious, and posed for a quick picture with him before he grabbed ... liveblog to share. Me with our new dean of admissions, Stu Schmill. Matt McGann was the photographer Me with Danny '12 at Meet the Bloggers Expect

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to ... chalkboard with three other students listening to the incredible Robert Jaffe ... completely different from your everyday life, and stick with it. Don't neglect

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most ... have been consistently confronted with problems more challenging than ... is not to overwhelm you with knowledge and make you want to shout

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  Langer before. Most of the time, I work directly with a post ... UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I ... sure what he wanted to do upon graduating (from Cornell) with his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  initiated into the brotherhood, along with ten classmates, last Saturday. The ... sense of accomplishment, of satisfaction with a job well done and well ... . Occasionally we let ourselves get carried away with petty arguments, or allowed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  Bad Idea associated with the Green Building was running up the stairs as ... , and the team with the most runs gets the much-coveted title of "Most ... official close. I didn’t even have time to make it Karaoke Night with ATS

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  just yelling across the room. Since we can't really get away with that ... behind the desk for about 14-16 hours (with occasional interruptions to run ... you're talking with 5 or 6 remoters, and trying to handle 3 different

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  blog too! I'm going on 42 hours with 1.5 hours of sleep, a lot of ... developments, communication with the coordinators, and a general feeling of ... chugging along with help from alums, remote solvers, and dozens of current

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  ridiculously hard. Since noon, I've been working on this one puzzle with pauses to work on other puzzles, but despite my recharging with pizza, carrot ... to see if you can come up with any bright ideas: Odd One Out Or maybe

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  be made into snow fighting artillery. When I met up with Dan in Killian ... more helping hands. I pleaded with random people walking through lobby 10 ... snowball for the head, Dan and Marie came up with an ingenious idea. There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  all the time, snow means fun! The only issue with having fun in the snow ... " -- so our nice door-opener was quickly pelted with snow as we ran down the ... finding somebody with a key to the door I shoved it open and we breached

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  Papallardo, with its long rows of lathes and milling machines and other useful ... machines: plus a computer lab with solid modeling and CAM programs to write the code for the CNC machines: For those of you not familiar with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  .671 (Mechanical Engineering Institute Lab Class) experiment, but I had to share with ... with different model numbers. However, they were not given spec sheets ... with you." Basically, Dr. Hughey, the lab technician for this class, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  with that logic. Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta ... also has the business savvy (and an impeccable sense of style to go with ... . Maybe he’ll solve global warming or save Africa or come up with

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  it real? This was two weeks ago. I went, along with a great many ... with the last frame missing. The instruction was to write a new ending ... sure you back up your assertions with reliable sources. Me on the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  underclassmen with programming about choosing majors, classes, and professors ... sororities host. Faculty guests are invited to have dinner (or tea) with ... fall, and a formal in the spring. Also, sororities have mixers with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  activities you hope to become involved with at MIT (or what you already do here ... . Bonus points if you can present Jess with a question that she can't answer ... compete with her dedication to the program? Please note: Short Answer #2

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  x(0) = 2, y(0) = 1 "New Hampshire starts out with twice as many arms ... don't know, it's like when Jennifer gets fed up with Charlie and dumps ... legendary, and there are plenty of webpages with more quotes of his. Check

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  you guys actually read it. What's up with that?! -fed you. Even in the ... , people! -dumped (with the aid of other SH residents) six thousand neon ... before), my friends don't stop hearing about it for a good two weeks. With

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007