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  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type ... famous cooking at Skullhouse. I originally planned on running the Back Bay ... can so seamlessly make me feel at home in my comfort zone and challenge

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Brooklyn named Abi (if you're reading this, hi Abi!). After a quick stop at ... at my recitation for 5.12 (organic chemistry), where I spent an hour ... ," Arrowsmith. (Who says MIT kids aren't cultured?) At 4:30, I'm heading over to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  How else would I know about all the awesome hacking that happens at MIT ... yet. GI JOE A free gift from the HASBRO building at Toy Fair. $25 ... love a class so much at the same time? 18.02 Book Wait, I took

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  little home of MIT and Harvard. The ceremonies traditionally take place at Harvard and the informal lectures that follow several days later are at MIT ... oh. I look at my watch. I stuttered for a bit. I look around at the 200

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... nineteen, and my friends took me out to dinner at the Border Café, followed by ice cream at Ben & Jerry's, and refused to let me pay. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Today was the first day of classes at MIT. Once again, the Infinite ... vaguely remember my first day of classes at MIT back in the Fall of 1996. I ... for whatever else MIT would throw at me. I like that MIT doesn't just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  , one is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, another handles ... to Moore and her husband, Matthew Moore, a patent lawyer and partner at ... scientist or engineer when she enrolled at MIT, earned two degrees in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at ... . At the time, I knew that two actions were notably absent from my list ... ://www.arthurganson.com/) Arthur Ganson is an “artist-in-residence” at MIT and some of his pieces are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  Development at Northwestern University, or CTD. At CTD, you spend 6-7 hours a ... , there's CTY at Johns Hopkins University, which Jess went to. Both CTD and ... at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale. They also have a scholarship program

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  Monday was a student holiday, which means that while my friends at their respective universities slaved away we at MIT got up late, ate ... ). While I was doing problem sets with some friends at Senior Haus, Gheorghe

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  know what the gender ratio is at MIT in engineering (mech ... graduation. Luckily, the situation at MIT is much better -- I spent a few hours crunching the numbers myself to be sure. At MIT, 35% of engineering majors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  concert occurs at Boston's Hatch Shell, a concert venue on the Esplanade, a ... the bridge (at approximately 100 Smoots and 250 Smoots), the bridge ... folks at the Pavilion start grilling at 4pm, and sailing generally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  trader at Lehman Brothers. Favorite class at MIT: 18.440: Probability and ... too. Favorite professor at MIT: Prof. Daniel Kleitman is my favorite ... year stint at Simmons Hall and then spent my last three years living at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are at least two KISS cover bands in the world consisting entirely of "little people," and at least two of them are apparently ... way home at 6 AM without my help, to Kristin R for her wonderful (if

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

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace without letting the pictures fulfill their purpose? At marching band we ... 're going to try to premiere it at this week's men's ice hockey game and, if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  -hi-uh" -- Adam always makes fun of my *nonexistent* accent after I've been at home ... -related stuff while at home, and I'm not just talking about the education I always ... UROPing for Draper than his mom makes at her actual job. I totally have a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  . Kent Riley, a research scientist at the Nuclear Reactor Lab working with ... Engineering. He then sent out emails and began his work at the BNCT in mid ... disease at a cellular level and was pioneered at the Institute. It works by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  efficiency. Bryan Owens (check out his blog at bryan.mitblogs.com), a junior working at MIT's Biotechnology Process Engineering Center (BPEC), is ... production of the cells. Bryan has been at the BPEC for six months and found

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  probably at least dimly aware that I'm a cheerleader, I never write anything ... members at the Activities Midway. We mostly utilized free candy and the ... marching band at my high school, which pretty much made me the anti

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  Very frequently, we are asked about the humanities and arts at MIT. I ... to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... and Music). Hence, these programs at MIT, as well as at many very good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005