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  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I ... freshman year: "Considering my track record in math, I figured I'd need ... .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship for $10 ... way through physics problems in high school, freshman year, and now during sophomore year I'm noticing a trend in physics problems: they get

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to ... more than an obnoxious insect buzzing in MIT's face. Chris '12 probably ... , waiting to be let back in. You can actually hear the Simmons fire alarm from

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not ... that I realized that I hadn't seen clouds in three months. I called

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in cobblestoned plazas and taking in the sights. However, guess what some of the ... of someone who was pretty involved (in my opinion) during the high

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... represent and protect the goals and interests of all undergrads in an ... governing bodies at MIT) in another entry, but for now, what matters most is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  much in the way of good professional sports teams - it's mostly the Titans, and they only moved there when I was 11. In the past, I've only ... game in the ALCS, I was on Burton Third starting to plan out our 6

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  'd want something more than the above.) I'm blogging because in a true show ... . Yes, you read that correctly. I did two whole psets in just under five hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring ... chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... complicated structures in mathematics. If printed on paper, the calculation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out ... been in many others, so it feels more or less over. I'm in Louisville ... national convention, which is conveniently also in Louisville this year, then

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  , every 20 minutes. Because there might still be someone in the Student Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway ... ." I noticed that it had to be in by February 9 or I would suffer a $40

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  in countercurrent. Redox occurs, there's a microfabricated nanoporous ... -page paper and a powerpoint presentation on the subject, in four weeks. Integrated Chemical Engineering, or "ICE," the senior capstone subject in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... vacation in Scotland. From a train window, they saw a black sheep in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  Oct. 23 in the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium at 7 p.m. Marjane ... about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a ... Satrapi said something along the lines of: "We live in such a conservative

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... -Thanksgiving dinner last night. We had two turkeys! In this picture, everybody is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in ... is very interested in what sets MIT students apart from students at ... ), what MIT's role ought to be in national and global energy policy, the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... difficult weeks in a row when you know there's a break coming up, no matter

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I've pasted some excerpts from the UEA email in italics.) The complimentary ... ?" Q: What does an economist do? A: A lot in the short run, which amounts

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... ," and it takes places in E15-001, aka The Lego Learning Laboratory. E15 ... (the basement, in this case), and the last two digits give the room

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005