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• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look ... disposition's a little too chill for that now. We'll see how aforementioned chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... today, a colleague sent me a news article called From Wilton to Wall ... : Mary Chin earned her BS in civil engineering and a MEng in environmental

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  called MIT Imagination. A lot of work went into that video. Elizabeth and ... 's nine months. That's like a human baby. And like a human baby, this big ... Rodrigo is an MIT senior. He worked in the same office as me for a summer or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The ... measurement I found was music. But music lengths were too subjective; a song by ... specific songs define the distances in my life? A walk from East Campus to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

  centered on a sculpture by the architect Ciro Najle. This internship allowed me to take a mental break from nuclear engineering in between ... September, and refocus my energy on a different topic. I helped curate an

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January ... office just a few feet down the infinite corridor. I enter with my morning coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  female fighter pilots. She flew the F/A-18 Hornet. At MIT, she is the ... . A crucial note for overseas readers and others unfamiliar with The ... Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  visits at least once every day. Because it's MIT, the Infinite is also a ... as "MIThenge", a reference to Stonehenge's alignment with the sun (although the type of alignment bears a closer relationship with that of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee ... awkwardly on the side taking a picture; the camera's hiding my face. harhar) Basically, there's a camera somewhere recording students going through the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of ... ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... with some paper, a pen, and my clarinet. A while later I had transcribed

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.

  

  Mystery Hunt is a yearly tradition at MIT, but this isn't an entry about Mystery Hunt. This is an entry about one of the tools our team has ... on this PDF is awesome! If you even have a slight bit of geekiness

  • by Snively '11
  • August 2, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  , this is a hacked website. IAP will be proceeding as planned, psych!!!] [Also know that this is the product of a winter break quasi-flame war. See

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  This started off being a comment in snively's entry. Then it branched ... . You didn't get an A. You got a P. Just like _________ over there having ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only ... , filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of the actual residents were occupied by festivities of a barbecueous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT ... their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping ... generate enough force to allow a gecko to hang upside-down from one foot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the ... , Paul and Karen, are among the authors. Here's a picture of the cover so that you can get a sneak preview: Next, a hearty round of

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  -purchased lanyard. Now, when I should be writing a persuasive essay for my AP English ... of a pset), the situation isn’t any different. It’s a brand new, red and silver and black MIT lanyard; on it are the words MIT Engineers, a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  There is probably a meter somewhere that measures how much fun you are having at school. Or maybe it's a bucket, swinging by the handle ... , totally worth it. A little background, with a lot of parentheses: I just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... only take a second, and I haven't blogged in so long that I got pushed ... off the front page is grape-flavored anything (it's not even a flavor, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  much been a whirlwind of activity. For once I have absolutely no problem sets and no commitments other than my UROP - which gives me quite a bit ... makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008