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  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the Talent Development Institute, or TDI. TDI was supposed to be a camp for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  think the problem stems from not having a good word for "friend of a ... of a "friend^2", etc. That would make things so much easier, for ... slideshows where you have to click to load the next page for a single image

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  remarkable don't do it for any reason beyond that it's what they love to do, a ... . So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get the most out of your life, theres a simple pseudo-algorithm for you: if

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between oatmeal+banana+yogurt and peanut butter+toast+honey+banana for breakfast ... every morning. I read for fun for 10 minutes every night before bed

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  in time to head back to Boston/MIT for the summer :) This is where I ... ). To ensure that Camp is free for all campers attending, the counselors ... wait for Camp in August. Okay, now back to packing for my flight back to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  now double-majoring in Music. She discovered a love for composition, and ... Director for their performance of Jekyll and Hyde. One day, at an MTG party ... you decide to do that, I will totally write music for you." *Cue lots of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post ... ) light bulb; 12 to play with the iPad (sigh), a few hundred for the fanfare

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  , and years for what is essentially one big showcase of music and dance. I ... found here; thanks to Jeanne '13 for uploading them! Mad props to SAAS board for putting on an awesome show last night: Enjoy the video (soon

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action: Decisions Now Available An announcement.

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the class of 2015 are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu. decisions.mit.edu You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log into your My

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  So I haven’t blogged for a while - again... I’m not going to lie ... much learning going on - that's what we're going for right??? Haha ... ) (credits to Evie'13 for the titles of these masterpieces - and for the whole

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  the life of Cyd" posts and I can imagine them being lots of fun (for me ... wendy’s for dinner with friend 2 8:30 pm – ran home to change for the next ... … had a BLAST! 2:00 am – walked back to MIT. Stopped at 7/11 for a snack

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  ’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend ... , and two classes for the GEL Program. Mine just might be the most random ... , my classes for the GEL program are relatively free of curveballs when

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  D '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this ... Nobel Prize in Economics (more have won for Medicine, Physics, and ... room for the press conference and posed for pictures with Diamond. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his ... just a mess for me to get back to the job from lunch. Eventually, I made ... for the annual...... .....pachyderm parade! When I found out that

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no ... have terrific gender diversity for a science and engineering school. The ... 'll see numbers like 20% for women, if even that. MIT women rock. (This you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... program designed specifically for engineers, or is there really a difference ... like a carnival for job-seeking undergrad and grad students. Some

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  was in the mood for milk.) ABOVE: Pouring myself a nice big glass of 2 ... community. I've been sitting in on meetings, just for fun, and it's been a ... disciplines to showcase MIT's talent, legacy, and future, and to prepare for the

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most ... , continuously, for several minutes. According to some of them, people are actually

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of ... internet handles. But for the sake of tradition, year, and, I suppose ... the sun for my first four days here because OH GOD POURING RAIN. But

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am ... jumble of sounds that only I would have any reason for using or even dare ... for anything. The great thing about our campus is, you have the option

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010