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  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation and service, topics that obviously resonate here at MIT. You only have ... Per Child, or MIT's Public Service Center - to name just a few - for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I have the best girlfriend ever Gifts at MIT rock.

  

  I bought a new mouse on woot.com the other day for $13.37 and I must say, it's very nice, but when my girlfriend came into my room she ... in just for me! I have the best girlfriend ever.

  • by Snively '11
  • December 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING ... 't really care, stay for the pretty pictures, mmmk? Mmmk. Alright here's the ... 're solving for!)). 2) Moment of Inertia. We need to find it. For the wheel

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  : Wow, great examples, Cristen and Laura, thanks so much for posting those ... 's become the greatest center of my hopes for my future. Your essays provide great examples--and for students as anxious about the outcome of their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  many organizations. I show up for events randomly, but don't attend meetings for most of these groups. Not because I don't want to, but because ... that, I try to show for whatever sounds cool. And you know what sounds

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  attendance. Last night, my parents, my brother and I gathered for our ... famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  D-Lab Food Fest A week on $2 a day, followed by a meal from around the world

  

  Sorry, I am a bit swamped for the next couple of days with some 14.05: Macroeconomics work. As soon as I can, I will write an entry on the delicious D ... . ... And for my mother, who jokingly calls me "our family's wannabe Florence

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Apple Sculptures The Caltech Cannon and soft core porn

  

  I'll admit it -- the "soft core porn" reference in the excerpt for this entry was pretty cheap... but it worked, you pervert. Here are some of the sculpture entries for Burton Conner (my dorm)'s annunal Apple

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... posted here.  The deadline to contact your EC has passed for early action ... other commitments. They sometimes travel or are otherwise unavailable for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  begins to buzz. Play hide and go seek with my alarm clock for twenty ... . Stop 1: Take a picture with Tammy the Beaver for Fierce Forever. Stop 2 ... Student Center for a glazed stick. 11:25 - 12:54 PM: Party in lab where by

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ecosystems And Web Sites A science question & general check-in.

  

  biodiversity" survive for five million years without any direct contact with the ... going for you folks?

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Vindicated! And the summer of FREEdom begins. (Pictures added)

  

  I'm in Boston until the end of next week for some meetings for the Committee on Academic Performance, but guess what, NO PROBLEM SETS! And thus, when you don't have psets, you go to concerts right? How about free

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a ... the door and the simple statement "Your alarm has been going off for ... snuggled back into bed for another hour or so. Turns out that I was having a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Get Animated A holiday comic.

  

  A random highlight of some holidays is getting emailed the latest comic from my friend and former apartment-mate Jen '01. Here's her comic for Easter 2006: When Jen was an undergrad she wrote comics for The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  Guess what! I passed my EMT practical exam! Yay! Now all I have to do is study real hard for the written test...yikes. And then maybe I ... wrote for my HASS on Tuesday. Today is an awesome day. Hopefully I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  jump up for this photo. The things I get people to do for my blog. Today

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14 ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him ... vaccine for free. My bad. You may be wondering how governments (or, in this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Institute for Talent Development and the Johns Hopkins University Center for ... ] speaks of the importance of being able to be "on the failure track for a ... world" can dawn. For those of you intrigued by the program highlighted in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  . You can read it: Some New Help for the Extremely Gifted (registration ... National Association for Gifted Children, said that state and local efforts ... responded, 24 spent as much as $10 million on programs for gifted children but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  travelling.] For months, I've been looking forward to the day I'd be leaving for college. I talk to my future classmates daily, and it seems like something of a college preparatory nature occurs multiple times per week. For

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005