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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops ... week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to ... Architecture. It's a standard spacious woodshop with all the usual tools along

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... must borrow something, always return it-- perhaps even leave a note ... -ins exhibit one's pride in having found a location. Most hackers aren't proud of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  For a gaspingly radiant millisecond after I received my acceptance letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... universe. It was a blurry moment of vague, smudgy happiness that I couldn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• 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 ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the ... that class this past week. It's a 12 unit class, which means the

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

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... many murals on campus. :) I'd also like to give a quick shout out to ... - which she made completely by herself! When she's not busy being a physics

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow talked it over with me today. His final words as we parted? "You've got a ... to be an admissions blogger read, Once, years ago, there was a Great

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  than lolcats...hopefully. This year's theme is poverty, and a couple of MIT bloggers are planning to participate. If you have a blog, you should ... . -------------------------------- Responses to questions: BrittanyL, a '13 hopeful asked a really good question

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  biography reads: Melis N. Anahtar, Bethesda, is a senior at the Massachusetts ... in biomedical engineering. A former finalist in the Intel Talent Search, she has a perfect academic record at M.I.T. She has done research in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation ... college. I think all of the colleges has a matriculation ceremony on the ... sign a book or piece of paper. Each college also hosts their own

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox ... Visitors has a number of benefits, to include skipping the long line of

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings ... a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  We will first begin with a cartoon from one of my favorite webpages: And it wouldn't be Valentine's Day without: r = a(1 - cos(theta)) Plot that on your TI-89. First off, yes, I am a blogging delinquent. Ben

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka, where we walked through an open-air produce market and into a large

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may ... are also a good chance for you to learn more about MIT from someone who

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a ... " -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time ... that you want on a 3D CAD program like Solidworks (see image below of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free ... considering a possible course layout for the next year or so, seeing where to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  Today is mail day. I'll save my emotional post on this topic for a ... share. 9:15AM The good news: we worked late last night and made a big dent ... schedule to mail today. The bad news: I woke up to a blizzard this morning

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  .21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him. Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005