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  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  .005 but it's hard to feel like you're learning, you know? You try doing a problem that requires you to use the heat equation and see if you finish ... , mechanical, physical, electrical, you name it. To illustrate this, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  , you actually expect MIT kids to remember things that aren't numbered ... features include an über-convenient café, an Athena computer cluster (not to ... , proximity to the Infinite Corridor, and - most relevant to this blog entry

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and the MIT Class of 2012 will treat you to a rousing litany of Academic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.

  

  seniors) to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school ... .org. This trip to the Southwest follows closely after the three schools ... spring, and last year's trips to Southern California, Maryland, Virginia

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  the background. I got my plane buddy Philip '12 to pull Tim the beaver ... MIT Logarhythms also performed. They were amazing. I managed to ... was bubble tea, guitar hero, ROTC, and breakdancing! I was able to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last ... for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... now, though, it's byooootiful. The kind of weather I'd like to ride my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a ... 's this class at MIT that designs toys, have you heard of it? It's hard to ... multitude of new tools, woodworking equipment, and supplies to convert an

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a ... struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to ... to take that opportunity away from prefrosh. What they forget is that

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never ... I was heading to Paris for all 3 months of blissful problem set ... students all over the world to participate in internships, and they try and

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... available to me that I wouldn't have anywhere else. The world's best ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International ... great to see everyone. Note to '11s: Ben, Bryan and I are generally around this week and next, though we're quite busy with meetings to prepare for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Two or three Thursdays before finals, Peach '09 and I went to Au Bon ... complained about something or other, I began to enter the Summer Jobless stage ... was a counselor at this one camp and I was supposed to do it again this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... to tell but if a picture's worth a thousand words, then 18 pictures are worth at least 18,000 words so let's get started right away no time to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... coffee when I got home so I might have been able to post mine first, but ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  Chun To: Us Subject: Your Mission v2.008 Your mission should you choose to accept is to build 50 yo-yos including at least three parts. This ... were set on our way to make some yo-yos. We could have made a simple yo

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to ... flashing red). I wasn't there to see the daunting skies, but it reminded me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  I don't have much to say, I would just like to bring this to your ... narrow victory for Lowell. (Photo credit to Eric Schmiedl '09) Yes, that ... partying. It also has mudwrestling. In addition to my mudwrestling, I worked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just this question, but I gave a short answer and deferred to my colleagues. I promised the student I would link to the latest ZigZag video ... to change the world. (Read more about Mitra's D-Lab experience in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  , it's the only way to fly. I don't care how you take it, but my CPW ... met, to the numerous fraternities I visited, to the awesome trips to a breakdancing competition at Tufts University and my little venture to Chinatown

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  changed my name to Samsam Siam. No no, I've actually just taken all the spare pictures from last month that I had meant to blog and assembled them ... distraught to fix them at all. This is Lauren, who was incredibly pink at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007