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  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to study is slowly but surely slipping away. I can't wait until all 1100+ of you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school years, I have experienced a fair share of field trips, including a couple to the Museum of Science, one to a theater production of "There's a Boy

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  , the entirety of the drawer declares mutiny and goes madly deskless. It ... place on the hierarchy of desk assembly, and it took me at least 45 ... 've had a harsh life. Why complain? I can afford the luxury of reattaching

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  upon, Winnie has agreed to take over for now and help all of bloggers ... of the technical aspects of blogging are maintained and taken care of. She can change all of our banner pictures, update our biographies

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... especially of the men of East Campus in scoring some Victoria's Secret MIT Pink ... . Looking at their list of currently sponsored schools, I don't think they

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  The land of 85% humidity, cheap food, and scooters that can ... hum of the air conditioner, the lazy sunlight streaming in through the ... . booyah!). And yet, now it's all over. I've completed all of my science

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  here, but um...that'd just be weird. Because the rest of this entry is SO ... gets the most disproportionate enjoyment out of the most random, absurd ... remember awhile ago, when he blogged about the enjoyment he got out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  seniors. Also, be warned that another installment of this entry may crop up ... could see long lines of nicely dressed Burton-Conner residents walking ... not know, dances are not my scene. One of the stereotypes at MIT is that

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  Like you might have read on some of the other blogs, the EA Telethon was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM, so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  completely lost all control of any higher brain function. I've spent the last two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth ... decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Perhaps you have noticed my lack of blogging lately, unfortunately I ... Monday and Neuroscience today, and my last exam is for Thermodynamics of ... -tier institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  on my project since day one, but ALSO the week of our last mandatory ... gives out 1 pset a week of variable difficulty and length. The shortest ... been known to take me some 10-15 hours of being stupid and feeling

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of ... scheduled around that test. About half of my classes also had finals before ... score became so much the purpose of the exams that when I got into college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  This entry is kind of inspired by an entry that Anthony wrote. Yes, I realize that he wrote it a month ago. I've been kind of lame about reading ... quality of my blogging has gone downhill as time has passed. When I first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates, authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an ... , to my untrained chemical engineering eyes, simply miracles of urban

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of ... see him in the "Valjeans of the World" medley at the end. It always struck me as kind of odd that they picked "Do You Hear the People Sing?" as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to ... Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... , conversations with TAs, and guest speakers, with the intention of finding a super

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan!" Well anyway, I just got 11 hours of sleep last night, so I finally feel

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn ... bunch of people that I haven't seen since high school. It's a little weird; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006