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• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  advice on how to succeed here.” I still feel that way. But I didn’t blog ... opportunity cost. Everything you decide to do will keep you from doing something else. You want to go to that fraternity party tonight? That’ll keep you

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... . But that's another story for another blog entry. What am I going to ... I and II," shortened to "J-lab" (an abbreviation of Junior Lab, as it

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  doors to Boston University’s Metcalf Hall. Along with the hundreds of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT ... ’Hare airport was delayed, and it took over fourteen hours to get to ... to find Terminal E, and jet lagged. By that night, I was bouncing with

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  I was already pumped about MIT going into CPW, so I mainly went to ... to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark ... & Comp homework out of the way before I get too tired to function. So

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  "yield"), we admitted 1533 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  ’s right, MIT requires you to graduate with a strong mind and body, while ... , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... signed up on a whim, not bothering to read the course description, since it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and ... there's going to be a lot of talk about this over the next few months

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  , although it's only been a couple of weeks. Lots to tell you about. Fall ... close), I left for the first leg of my fall recruitment travel. As to not ... morning I went to Philly schools, then drove to Delaware... Went to one

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  favor, okay? You have to remind me to enter the PE Lottery, which starts tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes ... too high for me to muster. Don't you forget to enter it either, Class of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  So you're flying to college. Or you're flying anywhere alone, and you ... think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours ... 'll probably miss you, and you're excited because the airport you're going to has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The ... route: Leg 1 (Checkpoint High Tea) London to Prague We polish of our ... hit the mainland we drive as fast as possible to escape the flat parts

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  lot of things I was going to blog about. I was going to blog about all ... happened, except this great road trip I took to Elizabethtown College with Chris '09 to see Alaina E'09 and Allison E'07. Despite getting lost AGAIN

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get ... and the liver to promote the metabolism of fatty acids and glucose, as ... stores glucose in cells). Since adiponectin is used to metabolize, or break

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  -state machine. It takes a while for the robots to look like much of anything ... SpazBot, in pegboard form. I think Spazbot is trying to read green ... coder who always reads this blog and used to leave me vaguely snarky

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I made the decision around 2am, went back to bed, and rose at the fine hour of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  Sorry to have been ignoring my poor blog, folks! Here's my excuse... Thursday 12/1: The day I'd set aside to catch up on email, blogging, work ... day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  around the room and up and down the stairs to tell Becky and Sam. Why ... out... Friday night Sam and Becky and I walked into Boston to have a ... most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I ... to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I ... , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero ... like she's going to cough up a kidney or something every time I see her ... decided to take a few hours of desk service to lighten Erica's load. During

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005