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• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer's Drinking Song goes like this: An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell ... MIT, depending on when their waves of midterms are - I realized that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  those hours. Good luck with the completion of the semester and your thesis. Have a great day! [Course Administrator] As of right now, I have ... photography final project, which took up 3 weekends of shooting, editing, and

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

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  . Pictures, links, narrative, and humor are a lot of work, and past freshman ... time you'll have a timeline snapshot of me! This is an experiment, we ... 's athletics program due to budget constraints, one of them being my sport

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  filled with so many different kinds of people, with so many different ... have drastically different ways of spending their precious "spare" time ... computing to practicing for the upcoming performance of A Midsummer Night

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... motion of things? Cars and people and hands and raindrops. Would it be ... 't see? Things sitting on top of things, things inside of things, heat and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  ! Here are some of my thoughts. We want you to be yourself throughout this ... an admissions committee, we desire diversity of all sorts, we don't want everyone to be the same -- part of what makes MIT exciting is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  , but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for ... drive a couple of months back much less painful) and I found some fun ... great series of connections that I've managed to make, I think I've found

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I ... taking pictures of sweaty people for future blackmail purposes. It ... view of the lobby: Walk up the stairs from another entrance, and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  campus tours, the sun is shining beautifully, the steps of the Student ... unraveling the mysteries of Sn2 reactions and E1/E2 elimination. We followed ... of the Weinberg Lab. To be honest, I'm actually incredibly jealous (who

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action ... battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived ... hundreds of invited guests include sponsors, mentors, and coaches. Among the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  A lot of you have written me to tell me you've voted, and it ... huge difference for me and my family. Please do note that I'm aware of ... support me without starting a war. Regardless of the outcome, though, it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  is over, you can walk out of the ring with your head held high and know that you're a stronger person for it. Ok, enough of that. This post is actually about how I spent my Saturday. I was invited by several of my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should ... be the single most important part of your application. Most of our ... of publication, etc. If you don't have a current blog and still wish to

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the ... " digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo ... garden of temporary statues. "Hammer Time." The scene resumes. I

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of ... 's pretty freaking lame. And maybe even a little pathetic. It's one of those accident stories of the "who does that?" variety. ETA:Arkajit said: P

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT classes at other campuses can cost several hundreds of dollars and take much more time) but also an intense 8-hour daily triathalon of taking quizzes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes ... everything I try to say sounds like it isn't adequate enough of a description

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  -scratch inventions and creations get our attention in the same way that many of those ... look around MIT for lots of examples of cool projects, like: Disco ... MAKE Magazine and MAKE blog. Both the zine and the blog highlight many of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  leave it out at room temperature without fear of food poisioning. This new ... subtleties of group theory in a rigorous yet accessible manner." But, well, I ... UROPs in his lab that he's actually just one of the most hardworking and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006