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  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  . Now at first, I was a little confused. I didn't know if this was a ... Greene. He was at MIT before my grandpa graduated from high school, and ... fries, malts, and portobello mushroom burgers at Fuddruckers. I kinda

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  pieces and I managed to finish at 3:31 -- and the competition started at 3 ... engines and ran them at the same time: [] Here are some examples of pretty ... some more and got it go at a max of 750 rpm. Moral of the story is to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  is the last day of my 5th semester at MIT. Time flies when you

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  papers: If you look at picture 2, you can clearly see my filing system ... ; the Dream: Reflections of the Black Experience at MIT, & Pedagogy of ... yell at me to clean my room. Now it's my co-workers yelling at me to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  should subsidize vaccines such that at the subsidized price, the private demand curve will be at the socially optimal quantity (in this case ... supply perfectly elastic) should be at P=0 since Medlinks provided the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  It's a beautiful snowy Sunday in Cambridge, and we're hard at work selecting the Class of 2010. While working on a subcommittee with Jenny and Mike '07, we spied out the window some folks playing in the snow in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  Health Education at MIT ----------- "COVER-YOUR-COUGH" POSTER CONTEST ... submissions accepted Friday, Dec 9th at midnight WHO? Sponsored by MEDLINKS and Health Education at MIT ----------- Monday, December 05, 2005 Film

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  Staying up all night while staring up at the stars, eating loads of ... 's summer UROP at Jim Elliott's MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory. As most ... would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So ... seemed to elude most of the latecomers who showed up on the third floor at ... were almost totally obstructing our view at the other end. Even after

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  move on to the next. I took one look at the question and just burst out into hysterical laughter. I couldn't stop. I just sat there at the table in the suite lounge, laughing uncontrollably at my pset. The concept

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a scanning tunneling microscope that operates at very low temperatures and in ... microscopes image objects that are at the nanoscale and consequently they are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... do they really help?" Actually, some tests at MIT go beyond index

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... ), CSC (Chinese Students Club), and ATS (Association of Taiwanese Students). There were tons of activities at this event, and unfortunately I got

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of research: 1. News: Summaries of breakthroughs at MIT and beyond. -Some MIT ... editing, email me at [email protected] or [email protected]. In any case, pick

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... Budget guy, he remarked "the car you reserved isn't ready at the moment ... car for hours at a time on busy city streets, where dings and scratches

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  booths (as they would at a normal college fair) and then GC's come around to network and ask questions. There are keynote speakers at the ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  through the NY Times, which MIT generously provides at no cost, I came across a front page article titled, "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set ... working or only work part-time once they have children, or at least until

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  . 18th, Mira Loma, Sacramento session." Aha, oops. You can RSVP at http ... ). You can review the list of meetings at http://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally ... acquainted with transportation research and study at MIT, and with the ... is the standard introductory physics course offered to freshmen at MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... madly in love with me. Or something like that. At the moment, I'm pretty ... impression that a lot of smart people (and, by extension, a lot of people at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005