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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I ... treasure. We didn't. I haven't eavesdropped on my parents in recent memory ... , period. But I got an internship in the Cognitive Science and Applications

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  past couple weeks about vacation time in the U.S. versus Europe. The ... is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the bottom is a snapshot of the same week in February 2010, when I was at the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 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 / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a ... . Students could not friend students at other colleges. In fact, most colleges weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 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 / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... that I knew in grade school. Not even the Earth that I knew from my magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 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 / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  's already the Class of 2013! In honor of what I'm going to do during IAP ... (Todai), the most prestigious university in Japan, through a year of ... teacher brings in "specialists" from different areas that attempts to teach

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  the college application process was over, all the complications in life would vanish. Not so. After I mailed in my deposit, I received an ... congregates people who are interested in the subject or are interested in

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008