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  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and ... ) and told us we would get 12:00 - 2:00 with Steven Levitt in early ... Stephen Dubner, he received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1994. His

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement ... . :) Max In my freshman year, Course 10: Chemical Engineering decided to add ... standard in engineering and it will inspire students to look into biology

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  hand in hand. But what you might not know is that MIT's original hackers ... Nickel Plate." Anybody at MIT can join right in, even freshmen, and get ... of freight and passenger services nationwide. Written in Python, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a ... engineers at a theme park waiting in line to get on a roller coaster and you

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef ... dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life ... option is to order in every night (I actually tried this) Monday: Papa

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  will get made over by the Fab Five as part of their new season in Las ... Card Stud." Ed double majored in Electrical Engineering & Computer ... logic, math and probability inherent in the game. "Most people who write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  Topics in Mammalian Biology) and 9.301 (Neural Plasticity) -- both were ... in, but we went over and hung out for a while. My friend Mark made a t-shirt that said "In the future, I'm famous." UROP: Morgan Sheng's lab in Course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  I just presented some intercultural communication challenges in the ... mix things up a bit with more than one elective course in the spring term, or even one or two in the fall. I guess it depends on the four

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in mind. 1. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick" 2 ... came up in the lightning round. Do you do quiz bowl? You should know

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  in Chemical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Nuclear ... 'll excommunicate you from MIT, lock you in a pillory, and melt the key MIT's nuclear ... -serving social events I can conceive for the chapter in the coming year. After

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three ... Methods in Aerospace Engineering. 21W.785, Communicating in Cyberspace ... for Computer Science. 21W.785, Communicating in Cyberspace (he's in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  news... A nice article in today's New York Times science section: A ... that you were involved in? Randal Pinkett: Almost as important as what I ... live in a very rapidly evolving society, so a lot of what we learn has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  , 1 Megapixel." The plan is to initially roll out the computers in a ... skeptics. People peppered Negroponte with questions in both English and ... Kay, known as the inventor (!) of laptops (back in the late 1960s) and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  some people who hate doing the work in groups, which is fine for them ... in the suite lounge, laughing uncontrollably at my pset. The concept ... problem was just absolutely hilarious to me at that point in time. Luckily

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  chemoattractants in a microfluidic device - 2 problem sets 2.005 - Thermal ... friends were present in this dream. Except they weren't normal. They were ... , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  blowing so hard that my new umbrella broke in 30 seconds, and then I was ... , and I got soaked from the knees down in the torrential rain. And then I ... , and so I'm sitting here in the cluster trying to figure out the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response ... where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... and Interpretation of Computer Programs) test in 20 minutes and was not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... 's food was real. Mine came out of a box: This neat little all-in-one box

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for ... about 36 people go, we slept in cabins, we swam, we played Mafia, and we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005