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  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  more interesting submissions were in response to short answer question #2 ... : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is ... videos that were submitted, in a fairly random order: Large Hadron Rap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  ), this was all on Albany street in those serious-looking and poorly landscaped NW buildings that no one really ever visits on a whim. Living in EC back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  ) - but there is a big difference between knowing something in theory and ... .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... in the tagline, the fight's begun but not yet won, and I'd rather blog

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors ... Period. As holidays go, I'd say Spring Break falls somewhere in the high ... in a reasonable amount of effort over the break. (Kind of like high

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... expectations. This mindset has, in my opinion, produced some truly incredible results - not only in terms of the groundbreaking research and new

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?" I armed myself ... . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... reaction, there is no force equal in Chuck Norris can divide by zero. - When

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  Hi folks, So sorry for the delay in posting this - we wanted to be very confident in the decision release date before announcing it publicly ... year (as designated in your MyMIT account) is 2008

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a ... voltage. They found that all the motors in the box had about the same ... , so they chose one of the motors at random and installed it in their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of ... dream that I met a girl in a dying world. In it was embedded a set of coordinates and a date. The coordinates, it turns out, pointed to a park here in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... 'm going for. So now, in numerical order: 6.002 - Circuits and Electronics ... required of all Course VIers, but it's going to be phased out in the next few

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  Glamorous moments, in the traditional sense, are fleeting at MIT ... day in lab. So you may be surprised to hear that 2 MIT students, Alia ... , unique goals, and academic excellence. Two MIT women were also chosen in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such ... in reading George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) reading list: Moll Flanders ... students' writing and of the assigned stories in their historical and social

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  people who use the expression "what are the chances" in casual conversation ... to consider the factors I would need to put numbers to, in order to ... likely to be born in February than in other months, so given that I'm born

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  actually pays off. In today's Doonesbury column, Alex comments on the Stata Center. I personally appreciated the strip, considering I'm in the camp of ... in awhile when I'm home for a break I run into another person who I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live in the same dorm as the other students in your seminar (usually there ... honest, I got to know the other people in my seminar but I didn't really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's crew G Unit. While there are always awesome concerts in Boston, it ... ,000 Maniacs, Sha-Na-Na, Don McLean, Aerosmith, and -- back in 1985 -- my favorite band, REM. In other news, yesterday was Drop Date: the final day

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology. MIT's biology department, in contrast, is largely a biochemistry ... the top three departments in the country for biology. Some people take ... graduate program; in MIT's case, the strength of the graduate program is the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in ... already exist in your circulatory system). In the end, this complex process results in a reaction at the right place at the right time... unless you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time ... toddler!" Yes, he's a very big boy. As we settle in with our newest bundle ... she keeps looking at his scalp for the 666 mark? In fact, given the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  's premiere of the show in 10-250, Ankur '04, shared some of his thoughts and ... about the show in Wednesday's edition. But, fear not! MIT is getting ... debuted it's first pilot in December. Basically, the premise of the show is

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006