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  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post. NOTE: You needn’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... being in lab. You see, I am taking Project Lab, this 30-unit class (normal ... every week in my lab, looking at worms, running gels and blots, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  in exotic locales (okay, maybe not so exotic), this IAP had been REALLY ... reason for doing so, you see. In a little bit more than 48 hours, I will be ... multiple choice questions in the realms of biology, chemistry, organic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to a great program in Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer ... .Eng program in Course 6 is something students can apply for in their junior year

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  ... Hmm I don't know when I was actually planning to hand it in... June 4th ... . I am in the office from 1:30 to 5:15 so drop it off sometime between ... (Shot Noise, Dark Current, Variations in Quantum Efficiency, Saturation

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... while everyone else was frolicking in the snow or relaxing at home, I was ... !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  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