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  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said ... assistance. Chu, in turn, has assembled a team of five “extraordinarily ... Slocum, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and 2.007 Design and

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome 2014s!! :) See you in the fall!

  

  finally made the decision on matriculation! For all of those that replied in the affirmative, congratulations! You're in for one heck of a ride. ^______^V but don't worry, you'll be in with some of the best company you will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... disasters before, but never of this scale. We got off the plane, and the ... rode through the mostly unpaved roads of Port-Au-Prince to see signs of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  We salute you. They say sometimes about MIT that of sleeping ... hours or so until I'm done with this unhealthy week. My weapon of choice: For the sake of not scaring my parents too much, let's pretend that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend ... well over 600 events over the course of a few days, and the prefrosh add ... MIT community is incredibly devoted to CPW, hosts a ton of excellent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art-related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the ... the parental units for feeding this creative money-sucker habit of art

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of ... tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  One new section of our application this year distinguishes between ... the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  Summer Glau. Speaking of winning, here are the winners:     So congratulations Elizabeth and Mohammed (respectively) you're the winners of the ... bit of a slow process. BUT I will persevere!

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  'm too lazy when there's a lot of assignments and exams - i really only ... cup arborio rice (this kind of rice is sticker and fatter than normal rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  finished blogs too for that matter). So I started the arduous task of trying ... duality of feelings of both win and fail. Anywho, I'm back on track now. And

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  EST to answer all of your questions about MIT in gory detail. What ... manning the booths and answering questions that prefrosh have. Think of it as a live version of the MIT blogs. I'm working the MIT booth tonight

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  Congratulations to the future class of 2013! I'm looking forward to meeting you over the coming weeks through the blogs and, of course, CPW ... video, Challenges at the Office, was produced by a alum friend of mine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to pretend that temperatures like that don’t exist. Anyways. The point of all

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... , which can be downloaded off of the MyMIT website. Your semester grades are ... possible after your grades are available; by the beginning of February would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  bumped me out of the running. This year, however, I applied and after about a week of waiting the finalists were announced. With five times as ... one of the top twenty finalists! Before I make my pitch I'd like to

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off of linear algebra and eigenvalues for a little bit by blogging. And more importantly, and more to the point of this entry, some shirts I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  on some of colloquialisms that you are learning? That would be awesome. :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... . Seriously, a couple of weeks ago as we sat in a bar and watched Spain beat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go ... 'm in the second group stunt and the partner stunt and the top of the ... from Molly) Yeah our squad is smaller this year. Anyways, end of term

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008