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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... . Franco? The technical awards go to engineers and scientists that make most ... visual feats. Not to mention their inventions can be applied to medicine

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  're stationary with respect to the plane. But it goes without saying that, relative to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system completely ... academic slacking. During sophomore year, I buckled down to work and finished ... has led to some vaguely unfortunate situations, such as taking the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself ... at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... quite pleased with my culinary accomplishments last IAP, so I’m excited to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  " button to blogs so that they could be easily shared via Facebook. As I said ... bottom of every blog entry. By clicking this link, you may choose to publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in Haiti, but I'll do my best to try to summarize. We just got back from a ... over the last week. I have so much to say and so much to remember, but I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to ... Ruckus has given way to Billabong. Like a scruffy college graduate who has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  being convinced that it was the most boring thing I've ever had to read ... family. "80s are good enough," my grandma once said to me in high school ... stopped going to school after 8th grade, though she was an awesome speller

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to ... me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  've planned on being Course 20* since before coming to MIT**, MIT students tend to all take the same core curriculum as freshmen. This not only ... too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... an e-mail informing me that there was to be another flash mob, this

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... was so weak and feverish that I dragged myself over to MIT Medical to ... knowing MIT Medical is there. My friends were sweet enough to bring me extra

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  gathered to recognize and remember Glorianna Davenport's 30-years of research ... upon using media to understand what people see and experience. She ... collections to construct new stories to share with others. Storytelling

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a richer college experience. You'll figure out for yourself how you want to live the next four years, what you want to do, whether you want to care

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  According to Wikipedia, mad scientists are "typically characterized ... unorthodox methods. They are often motivated by revenge, seeking to settle real or imagined slights, typically related to their unorthodox studies." Ok

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  Sorry I've been MIA lately- I've been taking 2.670 (Intro to Machine Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students ... student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen ... blue - I had no idea that my dad went to Korea (and from there, to Singapore and Cambodia). I like to think that my parents were actually secret

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Robot, and her path to success. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock ... iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... , Dheera needed an innovative way to enter his own room without using a key

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  due to excess carotene. So, I'm not Jewish. Not that there's anything ... . From: Jordyn To: [email protected] Date: 10/5/2006 1:24 PM Subject ... that to MIT Hillel! I think that one time there was some form or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... "r"; many girls do like to talk about their feelings, and many white ... upon their students, and partially because MIT students secretly love to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006