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  [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 / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  video. Take a look... MIT students take on some furry roommates By ... freshmen, Arielle Lubin had a litany of tasks to check off before classes ... assembling her course schedule, picking up her textbooks - and buying a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing ... show is a satirical program, poking fun at conservative political pundit programs like "The O'Reilly Factor." On the show, Colbert plays a character

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 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 / 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
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston's 4th of July celebration -- one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  A few weeks back, MIT's most famous fictitious current student, Alex Doonesbury '10, had an exciting IAP, doing the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition (not to mention Palmistry, Advanced Sudoku, a chocolate workshop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above ... our main projects is water testing and education. The community has a ... demonstrations. Sodis uses a method of water disinfection intended for the

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

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to ... ? Nanda told the Boston Globe: "I like my sleep," said Nanda, a research ... ." So when she was asked to create a useful product for an industrial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Candyland @ MIT Not your average gingerbread houses!

  

  My dorm’s study break tonight consisted of a Gingerbread House Making Contest. Armed with candy, graham crackers, frosting, and ingenuity, seven teams of Baker House residents built architectural masterpieces in only an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  mid-afternoon. It's been a busier than usual couple of weeks though, with two exams last Wednesday, a paper due this past Monday, a French test yesterday morning, and a final assignment for something else due a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006