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  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  click of a mouse button. Many childhoods of anticipation will come to an ... dreaming about big envelopes the way you used to dream about reindeer. You're just going to know.

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  Guess what! I passed my EMT practical exam! Yay! Now all I have to ... 'll actually get to be a real, certified EMT. Plus, I got an A on the paper I ... I'm really lucky, even through the 18.03 pset I have to do right after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019: Communicating Across Cultures. The intro class to the Applied International ... , and I look forward to it. A lot of reading, though. :-) 21F.302: French

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  regular term classes has officially come to an end. My glasses could use a ... of data, visual or practical. Yes, always; sometimes to my benefit, sometimes to my detriment. My high school math teacher once likened my mind to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song "I Should Be Allowed To Think ... time to peel, and forget about it in a 350 degree oven for 90 minutes. As ... that, I headed over to the floor lounge to play Super Mario Kart with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  I don't have that much hair to play around with, the next best thing is to give this here blog a new outfit for the new year. What do you think about the new look? Should I keep it like this or go back to the old

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  . Already, I find myself missing Boston and MIT, and I'm looking forward to the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2010! By now many of the Early Action admitted students have received "Da' Tube".

  

  Effect a line and we'll chat! Tell us your story. I especially want to hear from those not given to post regularly to this (or any MIT blog).

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT ... observations is to test if the Wallace Observatory has all the necessary

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my ... , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before ... here just to answer some questions that have been posed to me over the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... early evenings throughout the Infinite Corridor as I head to different

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... -powered sound system to test the acoustic properties of their vibration isolation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  inquires, "How's your wife/husband?" The other responds, "Relative to what ... to nothing in the long run. 7:30-8:00 pm Sophomore Welcome Dinner (all years encouraged to attend!) If you are a sophomore, come meet your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  the opportunity to experience life in Italy while simultaneously working at a civil engineering company. She was able to travel around Italy on the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  's alumni interviews. I am looking forward to discussing them on this blog, but first allow me to introduce myself. After growing up in Queens, NY, I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the ... '08, my suitemate from San Antonio, TX, returned to campus today, just in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  of over 100 freshman across nine floors, rarely needing to sink below third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song ... loved was born with roses in her eyes." 4. Joe '08, for inviting me to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  to fill with people. It was AWESOME. A great way to start my mini ... you want to grab one. You guys had me laughing out loud with your ... another pic soon for you guys to try to figure out, that was fun. Now the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ; Questions Omnibus soon) while at the same time, beginng to work with -- gasp ... ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four ... ) thanks to a rather obscure Massachusetts holiday called Patriots Day. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005