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  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn ... last November. According to this survey, 85 percent of freshmen said

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  Being the first three-day weekend of the academic calendar, Columbus ... sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as ... of small towns with misleading names: Paris, Norway, Oxford, Poland

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  ago now (goodness, I'm old). And it's the age of many of our excellent applicants - meaning, all y'all! It's also an excellent number of years for MIT. Howso? Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  One of the things I truly love about MIT is that you never know when ... modular design, scalability and the potential and weaknesses of ... hundreds or perhaps thousands of years, rather than the 10s of years in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  aura of professionalism, grace, and personality whether she’s reporting on the economy or having fun on “The Today Show.” She’s actually one of ... me is the fact that the granddaughter of a Japanese rice farmer can fit

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... Cities group, and our car, the CityCar has received a lot of press over the years

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy our sweet dance party a couple of weeks ago (which included a friendly ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list ... of the Institute, so you might want to check out the MIT Blogroll ... . Get the inside scoop before it hits the pages of "Wired." TechTV: Did

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  From today's edition of the Tech: Caltech Students Pull Part of a Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the ... to be finishing up right now but due to the extreme bloggability of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... . Anyway, some of those comments are all like, "MIT is hard, yeah, yeah ... think it's kind of hard. OH, CHRIST. I HAVE NO CHANCE OF GETTING IN." (I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy taped to the side. Thanks to the educational value of countless Halloweens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to feel like one giant meatloaf of beaching and eating and working and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  * Sonny Bono (of Sonny and Cher) being elected mayor of Palm Springs ... . * Super Mario Brothers 3. * The death of Richard Feynman (abdominal cancer). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  to create a program to educate students on the significance of leadership in all aspects of life - be it social, academic, technological - and relay the concepts of leadership through an interactive curriculum. LTI

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  sorts of goings-on beforehand on the 3rd floor of building 35. What's on the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a normal little classroom, but that has changed as of late. You see, there

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  Star Wars Trilogy: The Musical Edition fall of my freshman year - the ... Yoda puppet, one of the stars of 'Star Wars Trilogy: Musical Edition,' a production of the MIT Theater Guild. Photo / Jax Kirtley Really, can you blame

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  that happen? Most of campus is already cracking down in preparation for ... the stress level on campus would be pretty high right now, most of my ... the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... seems I have no choice other than to make the best of the situation. My

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  two months working for one of the most exciting companies on the planet ... of the best architecture for office and technical buildings. Together ... about. Especially for a car guy. Espresso at 8 am: I'm awake. Sounds of

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  When I woke up this morning, I made myself my typical bowl of Kashi ... the last bit of my milk, which may have been a problem tomorrow ... city of angeles. Man, I love it when vacations line up with food

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007