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  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in ... rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... dinner included. Tonight we are in Destiny kitchen.   The MacBook is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  , but I feel a vicarious thrill seeing the same expression reflected in the eyes of the torrent of 2015s that have descended upon campus in the past week. Like many freshmen, I was participating in one of MIT's many

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  ’t tell my colleagues in other departments I said that) department at MIT, and a department that is top ranked in Computer Science, in Computer Engineering, and in Electrical/Electronics/Communications Engineering. So it was

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... semester, I knew I couldn’t stay in all three groups. But I really didn ... fun. And in case you’re wondering, a “wind ensemble”

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  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