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  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  with the pros, or just enjoy the company of other Rubik's Cube ... in touch with many of them even if you don't end up enrolling here ... with a group. Plan ahead, but also plan to be flexible. As previously

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  and built by current MIT freshman Victor Hung '14, with music by ... -dozen current students in a room with a bunch of pizza and soda for 48 and let them come up with a bunch of ideas for levels and build very simple

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  , except replacing paper with ... powder...After the printing is done, we have to excavate the model like an archaeologist, with tools and ... ’s calendar and wanted to follow up with mine... Look at that sea of blue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  storm, leaving us with the shortest semester possible. Consequently that ... . My biological clock is underdamped with a stupidly high Q. Looks like ... with it a quantity of problems "q", quality of work "b", divided by unit

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  of events for August, Boston has been graced with cloudy skies ... (Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, not to be confused with UROP, the ... with engineering leadership! - Thursday, September 2nd (12-1, room 12

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  day, he participated in a panel discussion with MIT professors John ... MITSO performed in October 2009, so we were already comfortable with the ... Mozart symphony with the guidance of Dudamel. ABOVE: It's me! On the MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  above goodies are complementary with the class, I still need to go out and ... regular floor plan of our lecture space, just to get acquainted with representing a real 3D space on paper… practiced drawing a section plan with a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  walked into her office with eight classes slapped onto my registration form ... about classes with my advisor for 10 minutes, and walked out with seven ... ), with which I almost completed an entire Statistical Mechanics problem set

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed ... cuprates". For those of you with complexions darker than mayonnaise, that ... the word "Superconductor" leaves you with an image of the world's lamest

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  those hours. Good luck with the completion of the semester and your ... . There was philosophy, with 2 problem sets due this week, which I keep ... end up with a black hole for a star). Not to mention I haven't blogged

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  want to do when you get here. With so many events to choose from, it ... . This will be awesome. There will be beavers filled with candy for you to break open with a baseball bat. -Meet the bloggers! Friday, 6:30pm, 2nd

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... freshman year with the highly competitive process of choosing the ring ... ring with the beaver and have a three-piece construction, with MIT and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  とうございます！） So I'm in Japan this IAP! Last IAP, I spent it in Madrid, with MIT ... morning (10-1) with Profesor Gessa, and stayed with a Spanish family ... . Through some arranging and some rearranging, I'm now staying with an elderly

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  we wrote (with Susan '11) over last summer. I'll be blogging about ... -making class with Laboratory for Chocolate Science, one of MIT's more...unique student groups. Mm, chocolate. Teaching an introductory LaTeX class with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  blown that trip away with its winds. How could he leave his family, living in a house with no utilities, sweltering in the humidity, standing in ... September weather? Well, with schools and businesses closed, and the house in

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  to the campus gallery to view art, and waking up and living with it ... tank. It got infested with fruit flies, and we had to get it fumigated ... is no longer available for loan. "Students who live with art in their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised ... : Okay, so I'm not much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right ... Bay have incredible views and great parties along with it. 3. The Mass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  report to the gym between 7:45 and 8:15 am. With 2,335 graduates, there was ... about to fight with a tiger (though sometimes getting through MIT felt ... this year and happened to be next to me (our last names both start with A

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  freshman year, stayed on campus, that is, working with the LIGO burst team, next to the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (with the enviable name ... 've already talked about what the deal is with my research (I'm continuing from

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  I took my first final today: 8.022, Electricity & Magnetism with ... with my physics requirements. =) Enough about finals, though! As I said ... Institute. To get into the specifics, I'll be working with Professor of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008