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  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  quickly (she was slow.) Having handwriting that you enjoy looking at is a ... class notebooks. I've also found that it's a lot more fun when there are ... my lecture notes, there is a mixture of 1) abbreviated content (normal

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  turned out by the thousands today for a memorial service to honor fallen ... Briggs Field on a beautiful sunny day: Students who couldn't make the ... , Officer Collier.  You'll be missed. MIT has created a Sean A. Collier

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Innovation and Design, a class that all GEL1s take). This week was pretty long ... GEL, it’s recruiting season! Even if you’re not a part of a ... involved with things is a lot of fun and normally not mind

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... working.  And if there ever comes a time when there are no lights on in the ... the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... telling people that I'm a blogger. (Which I then question due to my recent ... I don't get a flaky biscuit, Moving on: I'm BACK! I love being back

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  projects. One day a new challenge caught his eye and CourseRoad was created ... make you feel better :D] Let me start with a piece of advice: you know ... ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  practices and MCAT. No kidding. I sleep like a baby every night cuz I am so ... it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  , Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Hersh, a former university president who recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America ... to really "get" what makes this such a special place. Now, I know such

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at ... due. I've honestly felt like I've had a "Hell month." But don't worry, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  name, got his Master's in City Planning, and in a way, he planted the idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and for most people, they go through a rotation as the year goes round and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  bloggership? Well, senior year happened. And that’s certainly not a good enough excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in ... a rage comic. Maybe you will too. And if so, you can join me in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  Today is Veteran's Day, a federal holiday honoring military veterans. So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental Health, I was greeted with cheers and pom poms and a strange ghostly ... , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  , "Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each ... you a secret because I have that much love for you all - I was really ... 'm starting to feel like a real engineer and it's super. So yeah - putting on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work ethic and a phenomenally operatic R&B singing voice, has graciously

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  Hello beautiful folks of the interwebz, It's been a while! Much has happened since my last post - I stopped being a teenager, I went to San Diego, I discovered Rebecca Black (and am forever scarred) and I received a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ...close enough). I was a little jittery. I set three alarms that morning, and ... out. My desk remained empty. I raised my hand. A proctor yelled "BEGIN ... . We shared a hall with a few other physics classes, and it looked like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  18 is a fine number, especially when it counts years. It's an ... MIT. Howso? Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel ... was awarded to MIT Professor Peter A. Diamond, along with Dale T

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010