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  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  food and a thing you do with food. You'll probably never need to ... you some stuff about myself. I'm a Course 18 (math) major, and I write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time ... This is a quick read and I read it one day after complaining on facebook to a friend that I wasn’t able to lose any weight. I think he was sick

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a thousand times that I could sleep just a little bit longer. Sad. Thrilled ... , Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a ... I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... write this, there are a whole bunch of really cool things going on at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process of catching up, he asks me about how one takes a year off from MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider ... make it not just a simple means of transport, but an integral part of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world ... check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of ZigZag, hosted by Marsha. There's a nice piece about MIT research on more energy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started writing this entry one week ago today. A lot has been up. I designed a microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruth

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  ) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed ... Foreign Bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World ... ). Includes reports of, among other items: seven light bulbs; a knife sharpener

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  First of all, a big thank you to everyone who replied to my request ... second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in ... to show the typical setup, furniture, and layout of a mix of rooms

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in ... that it was a personal entry in my personal blog about my personal ... being human and for recognizing that I am the same. I had a long response

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of ... Sadoway. Speaking of Professor Sadoway, there was a nice article about him in the Boston Globe a week ago. Check it out: ...Sadoway, a professor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense yet fun week, and I'll probably blog about that this weekend. But on a ... over? A newspaper of course, silly. So my name appeared in this week

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  Jessie '07 sure has a cool life. But so do I, sometimes. Yesterday I was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ... great weather and explore for a couple minutes. By the way, it's sunny

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the ... beneath a body of water, but at this point it's so routine that most ... is only a twenty-minute endeavor. Ah, Paris. Pretty typical

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... 't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one-line summary of the film: "It was a geeky, MIT-type of film." In many ways, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond ... . Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I drive with Mira, another pika resident, to a nearby lake. I’ve been

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  Before college, I was by no means a hardcore Beatles fan. When I was a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... -finals, when I had absolutely nothing to do, I started reading a lot about this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a ... "]REX[/annotation] chair for Next House. This was a stressful time—along with a co-chair and a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021