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  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour ... pressure. The better the bridge design, the more "vehicles" (or in this case ... students did a similar activity in an Engineering Leadership Lab earlier in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... generally not the variety of nerd that seems to stick in society's collective ... -compressed exaggeration of MIT. We don't stay up until 4am speaking in rapid-fire Math

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  Report. Note that there is also an option in the Report for students whose ... 're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades, or you've already ... straightforward. You'll take your transcript, then write the course name in one box

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating ... her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most ... expressed Esther’s age in binary, using 5 candles and only lighting two

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  disappearing again. But the first week was still of note due, in part to Rosh ... were not permitted at the dinner, but just imagine an endless feast in a ... night. The following day, as you no doubt inferred, was Eid ul-Fitr. As in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  was born and raised in Columbia, MO – home of the Mizzou Tigers ... ’s mascot. Seriously.) – located smack-dab in the middle of the U.S. While it ... bizarre thing to get used to. But in addition to the people I met from

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... field. I donned my Rooney England jersey that morning, in the hope that it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring ... most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  ). Invariably, the answer has always been "dive in somewhere and it'll work itself ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... and tweaking components to get everything to work like it does in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  Hey all! I haven't been around this site in months, and rather than ... , I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen ... class called the "Nuts and Bolts of Engineering" in case I, y'know, decide

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... programming. I've got a background in programming, but they use Python whereas I ... lot of sense. All in all, I love this class so far. 2.002-Mechanics and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  - Graded Undergraduate Research in Course 9 Total: 72 units I'm way more ... semester. I loved biology in high school - mainly because I had a great teacher who complemented lectures in class with several hilarious stories

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  : Sometimes, it seems like MIT people only speak in numbers. You'll hear sentences like "I have 6.001 in 10-250 at 2:30, then my Course 9 UROP in ... (sometimes given in Roman numerals). These numbers are in approximate order of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  while the drill bit (actually called an "end mill") is in the part ... parts in SolidWorks, import them into a program called "MasterCAM," and ... you, spitting out a finished part in just a few minutes. Neat, huh

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  COLLIER COUNTY: A set of twin girls in Collier County have a lot more in ... personalities are totally different," she said. Both girls plan to attend MIT in ... what they plan to major in this fall, the both said the same thing - math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the awesomeness that is Campus Preview Weekend, I noticed an event in my 500 page ... - present resources available at MIT and in the surrounding community

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was ... : ----------------------------- Construction in Back Alley Next to Bexley Dorm Hello, I'm wondering how long ... pulled down my window and my shades, assured that I was in for another 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  that are knee-deep in finals (including yours truly). Finals at MIT are ... your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  in: Steer Roast is Senior House's claim to fame - it's our annual weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our ... , because only life can kill you." Steer Roast has been held in the spring

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008