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  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  figured 18.01 would be a walk in the park, I took one look at the p-set and ... started the pset at 9:30p.m. What follows, friends is what is known as a ... fact. But what makes it so hard? it's just maths right? Sort of. Here at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of ... interesting? We think that, at least partially, it's because they approach

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  Christina Barcelona playing at the Kendall theater. Went in pouring rain in a ... field day they know something is definitely up. At 5:30 4 boxes are ... with the easy-going folks down at the MIT boathouse later, and I'm ready

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... most Summit activities will be at Northeastern University, the Museum of ... it'd be good to blog about it. We arrived at the Museum of Science and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  Even though I just finished my first year at MIT, this is actually my ... 'd already spent the previous two summers taking an immunology course at Northwestern and an engineering course at Notre Dame, so I was ready to try

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  't representative of a typical weekend at MIT. It is true that CPW isn't a typical ... because so many groups at MIT are excited about your presence. What you won ... studying is done before you arrive, or while you're at other events. Again

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  grad school someplace with palm trees, I spent 16 years at the Jet ... after they came down, and I remember looking at Venus' surface and saying ... being along with Roald Amundsen at the South Pole, but warmer and with

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  acceptable. Don't look at me like that, I know you're one of them ... buildings (I know of at least 3). The Harvard Coop sells Harvard stuff, the ... into the bookstore, getting a refund at the end of the year equal to 7

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a ... -out awesome. At any rate, I volunteer whenever I have the time, and that's how I ... of us arrived at the Dave Powers Room in the Constitution Inn in Boston

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

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  of my life at this place. I LOVE IT. So why would anyone want to come ... reason to say so. If I think about my daily set of activities at MIT, I ... kind. If you believe that the only education you will receive at MIT is

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  , most econ majors (like most other students at MIT, I believe) choose ... D program at MIT, there are students who studied computer science, physics ... increasingly rare to go directly to business school (at least into an MBA program

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  -record. It is meant to level the playing field, so that you will succeed at MIT ... responsibilities. You might get the Freshman 15 (I did…) from eating at all the free ... of activities on campus and realize that while everyone is a nerd at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  teacher who no longer teaches at my school, and, as of today, he had not ... to see senior year grades at all, and if you're applying RA, mid ... , my chemistry teacher wrote my letter without having looked at the MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  , spectators at the Boston Garden reported seeing leprechauns in the rafters ... chairs that plan events like these at huge subsidies. One thing that I ... we were on the subway. At 2 PM in New York. The result was a Lucy and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  some repeated pumping noise somehow, and I was only just at that moment aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time ... . Except at MIT, it's a waterfall of knowledge. As I said last entry, I won

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  a professor at MIT, Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer ... was the obvious choice. At MIT, he felt that the sky was the limit and ... studies at MIT by getting a Masters in Engineering (M. Eng) in Electrical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , particularly at the only college about which I know anything substantial. The ... learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most ... intellectual efforts of any given scientist, lab work fails at least half of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  heading home at the end of August. It's been great getting to know all these ... . Tomorrow all six hundred people at my site have to go to some workshop, so my ... 't have any fun at MIT until I get back next Monday. Just playin'. Enjoy all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... . It's otherwise known as the coolest and most useful project ever, at ... NHGRI and had headed the Human Genome Research project. At the NHGRI

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006