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  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college career. I am almost done with school, almost ready to go out into the real ... copious amounts of work I have to complete. I am thoroughly enjoying my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... local activist groups and residents, he hopes to empower people to monitor ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  , Burchard Scholars Program Coordinator. I've been meaning to write about ... think it's about time. I've alluded to the Burchards program on and off ... to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... invited readers to decide which college the character Alex should attend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... to do) was mechanical engineering. I liked to build things and create things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  -up-the-stairs-without-knee-bending contests; watching math majors play Guitar Hero while I pretended to be ... ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... worst one-word sentence hooks ever. See? Apparently, I forgot how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  . One spoonful of corn chowder was allotted to each resident, provided ... should be plenty to feed the 14-person floor for the next week or so. Paul ... tablespoon and subsequently switching to teaspoons whose volume capacity

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  of Helvetica not only gave aesthetic purity to subway signs but also ... masterpiece of breathlessly-paced storytelling, trying to scan in every color-saturated detail before I had to face the grey ugliness of December in the Midwest

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... , unborn sociological research papers were practically waiting to be pulled ... sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  earlier this week: Computer Program to Take On 'Jeopardy!' YORKTOWN HEIGHTS ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of completing a computer program to compete against human "Jeopardy!" contestants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in physics this saturday. Few things I'm doing to prepare for it: sleeping < 3 hours last night to drastically shift my sleep schedule into

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was used to. I complained about "drinking from the fire hose" since that ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be ... until late November, my very last test of the semester. It's one thing to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means ... video game nerds. Order of the Stick D&D comes to life, basically. PhD Comics Can't believe I originally forgot this gem! Called to my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most ... 's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between ... like "duel enrollment" courses. Perhaps these students are preparing to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... 'm Kimd when it comes to admissions blogging, since there's another Kim. As ... as time went on. Eventually I had a power amplifier that I could use to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  Something happened to me this summer. I'm not sure exactly when or how it took place, or if it had anything to do with me becoming a senior ... having to park it on a dirty latrine). Maybe we took the whole maturing

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when loaded, can be used to immediately patch vulnerabilities or introduce new

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... Medical Students Association, and it took 2 ½ hours for the food to arrive. Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  drinking that soda. Thanks to Shilpa for telling me that dubious bit of ... three kinds of classes that I'm supposed to go to per week. In lectures ... stop for questions, but a couple times students have stopped to ask him

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006