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  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  hilarious), I try to end my days reading journal articles, policy books, and other things full of ideas that tend to keep me up thinking. Few ... breathtakingly well written and fun to read. His Ethical Visions of Copyright Law

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  It's important to recognize that while MIT is known for top-notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to foster all kinds of creative juice. I wanted to introduce one such example

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I started thinking. Mostly to distract myself from the pain as I did this over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As nerds procrastinating psets are want to do, MIT students hacked the poll

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this ... commented, “Oh, MIT. My siblings went there,” and proceeded to talk to us ... into a metal detector, and used on an overturned beach to find coins with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... but honestly gone to my graduate student and reported each of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and stupid sportswriters continue to laud players who play through injury. What we celebrate, and whom we praise as heroes, becomes what we want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  ... "Things I Discovered About Myself as it Relates to the Artsy Stuff I Have in My Life...". But "Life as an Artist" has a better ring to it, don't you ... with this group/family/community and it has been a blast! To make matters

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  , including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One ... 25% to the undergraduate population for the weekend they're here. The MIT community is incredibly devoted to CPW, hosts a ton of excellent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities ... winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules ... about all of this? Well, winter's finally come to Cambridge, along with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  I'm frequently asked about the students that are admitted to MIT. Who are they? What is their story? Beginning today, I'm going to be posting ... , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  Office to the Undergraduate Advising & Academic Programming (UAAP) office ... fewer questions about admission, we encourage you to start reading and ... folks are super-excited to help answer your questions as you transition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends ... , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  , and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your classmates, and it'll at least be entertaining to look at a year from now. I ... with his card. Le sigh. I suppose it happens even to the best of us. But

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  attempting to fall asleep, having heard stories of people doing this at times ... and I rolled out of bed and ran 3 miles and ate breakfast and walked to ... audition because I missed the actual auditions and trudged to the other side

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling ... forward to classes starting. Not to mention had to go to classes when they ... /1/08.  Please be advised that you need to drop the subject from your schedule. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... AAS business sessions in order to pass resolutions and make decisions on ... lot of useful information and gained insight as to how we can improve

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary ... was the point. Not because I'm trying to show off - I read most of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be ... directly ahead of you. I know many of you find it hard to picture yourselves

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... more enough to convince me that MIT really was different. Given that our

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008