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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  ). On a quick side note, I've noticed that a lot of people on tours love ... who is planning on visiting MIT, I have gone ahead and taken a picture ... Library takes on a whole new use for students. No longer is it a place to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  here, right now I want to focus on an aspect of diversity I never fully ... . Last Tuesday, on the first day of classes, Jeremy walked into the ... best clothes on the first day of class." Upon hearing this, I instantly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That ... on the same sign, together, you can bet that there's some serious stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a ... . (For more about IAP, see my former entries on IAP 2007 and 2006. So what do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... Studies and then went on to create Untravel Media with three other MIT grads ... engineers are jumping on board heavily-funded projects to make video games

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  -sur-Mer, a small town on the western coast of France, near Nantes, with my lab mates on a retreat in June. I never knew that French people liked the YMCA ... detail here. On the weekends I had a blast experiencing Paris, having

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I finally saw a shoulder with a pair of shiny stars on it, I giddily tapped ... was a small statue of a man on horseback. The NCO explained that the

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  photography, and the list goes on with names such as Laplace and Lavoisier ... of Neptune. Arago's telescope is seen on the roof just to the left in ... illuminated the time and date on the meridian, traced on the floor. Right: Salle

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  (happily, the dust has settled quite a bit since then). Mid-May found me on ... sure I'd ever be able to get any work done. I went on a student-led tour ... question" (which I gather is fairly common on their tours): "yep, no doubt we

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  I very much agree with what Jess wrote about your comments on Stu ... , and am fairly confident that I knew what was going on in each book. I ... gone. Yikes. On Wednesday morning, after a sleepless night (not kidding

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  have discovered this on my way back from a West Coast chemical ... 'll be reading Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig on my overnight redeye (or are those two things mutually exclusive?). Catch you on the East Coast

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said ... - they've been gone a week), and my stepdad keeps the mailbox key on his ... neurotic college applicant waiting for a decision. (Come on, who can blame

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to ... have the rare ability to set even water on fire. Thankfully, some of the people on my floor are much better cooks than I am, and every now and then

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  are posted on the MIT events calendar), and they usually are are very ... , being founding director of the Broad (more on that later), and "world ... says lunch on Oct 19th just opened up, and we immediately agree to it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  online math community and learning site on the web, bringing together ... perfect was the school shooting that happened the same day on the outskirts ... IEEE. And informally, creating something new and cool on your own is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  was written by my professor), wrote a short paper on emerging diseases ... worries; at the beginning of summer, MIT will send you a booklet on all the ... then rank your choices based on that and what you've seen of them, at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  interviews and information sessions set up on campus. But undergrads don't have ... been there twice before, just because I'm never on the 5th floor of the ... '07 to give a presentation on all the opportunities that a MISTI

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they ... about my family...), but on top of an MIT courseload, I'm not sure how ... 've probably heard in every other commercial on television if you don't know it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  get some things accomplished. (I worked on some projects for Amtrak ... here and there -- the Midwest, the South, and elsewhere on some long ... should report on some of the festivities here at East Campus. The dorm put

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , though it may vary slightly depending on your dorm. This list is based on ... connect to my laptop, which is much easier on my eyes. However, running programs like Matlab and Solidworks is absolutely painful on a laptop, so I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006