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  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you spell it? A: A “pset” is short for “problem set”, and it is the most ... reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle ... can throw a #sorrynotsorry at me.) One day a week, we meet in the office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... do you tell a high school senior during a surprise phone call on a ... middle of homework. We had a team of roughly 25 students calling students

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working, It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the ... ? How about a puzzle hunt at the MIT Museum written specially for MIT ... exhibit of cameras that look around a corner, and a “glasses free’ 3D

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by no means a complete enumeration of activities that MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... Catch reruns for 14 hours a day. You could easily become a Facebook addict ... the summer, MIT students do a whole host of interesting things with

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  Registration week was a heinous tangle of scheduling; seven (7) classes knotted my temporal ropes into a gnarly mess, wrapping up any loose ... .07 received a free copy of The Maxwellians on the first day of lecture. On the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  Another blogget for you all. MIT Men's Heavyweight Crew is a finalist ... by going here and voting on the right hand side. This site is a little ... . With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to A mutation or a C to A mutation, I'll let someone else tell the story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about ... "Special Edition" cards, adding a little something extra to a few of the ... , and here's what I did: 38 of the cards have a number underneath my name

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  last for maybe one post after this one. But, hey - a guy can dream, right? I should also warn people at the beginning that this is a long post. I ... way through a project like this. Those of you that know basic

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... Tower A stock shot of a ballroom, all dolled up Here are the 10

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon ... against Brazil. I had a good cry about it and vowed that I would never

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins. So Saturday afternooon, I was en-route to a surprise dinner with my

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell ... I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... ), so getting a $40 per month cell phone plan isn't as staggeringly costly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  . From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a ... Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student! Incredible faculty We are a research university that places a great deal of ... campus. Student collaboration MIT also has a strong culture of student