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  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 / 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

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  So, by a show of hands, how many of you are stressing about college ... that’s a lot of you! Last year around this time I wrote an entry called ... a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 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 / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  over 600 people in attendance! Of our 70+ meetings that we'll so this ... . At most of our meetings, we'll see somewhere in the 75-300 people range ... up to the city of San Francisco where I had a relatively smaller

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack ... ice cream. It was all quite delicious, even if a certain member of the 224 suite complained that we stole one of their ideas. =P I've been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  matter how attractive you are, there are plenty of people at MIT who are way out of your league. Professor attention silly the willy asked, How ... is my UROP professor, who loves me because I do lots and lots of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  grad/family dorm on the very west end of campus, tomorrow (omg so excited). All of our stuff is carefully packed and ready to move, and I am super-excited about our little apartment. So all of you who are fretting about me being

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You ... can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of ... plain left blank...but the cool part was that I got nearly 100% correct of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... . ------------------------------------- John wrote: "IB appeals to me because of its variety and it's coursework

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  , Dec. 22. Monday marks the beginning of the end, but why not have some ... campus on the last semi-sane weekend of the semester!: Friday: 2 ... Surgical Treatment of Gliomas in 54-100. 8:00-10:00 (?) PM: MIT Symphony

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of ... sending in some of your work. Be sure your standardized test scores have ... recommendation forms, what are you waiting for? Teachers get very busy this time of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things that my MIT professors have said. Actually, some of the things are more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005