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  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  Obama's speech in person this afternoon in Kresge Auditorium, you can join ... conventional solar concentrators. Professor Baldo is a principal investigator in ... in, 2002, he has worked on fundamental improvements to the efficiency

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... aborted experiment in homemade black bean burgers is sublimated into a thick

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  know that, she, in fact, also just climbed a mountain (at 2000 meters ... pretty majestic! (she's the girl in the picture) Which got me thinking ... summer which looks awesome. It's preferable that you are in it too but it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in ... at MIT (well, maybe those tricky PRS questions you get in TEAL). I know ... . Well, no not exactly, GREs cost $$$ and are a real pain in the neck, it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been ... and this Sunday will be the 4th class (out of 7) in the program ... passed so fast it's like crazy. -Got tired of working in a biology lab, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  .735: Writing and Reading the Essay. It's my last class in the HASS ... things in Rhino. (Why yes, you'll probably end up coding something regardless of your major..) 4.292: Special Problems in Architecture Studies

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the ... short answer essays. So be careful in these sections, too! What happens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  allows cats in four of its 11 undergraduate dorms, a rare amenity that ... experiment at MIT several years ago has now taken hold in the campus culture ... lowing pets in dorms, and drawing attention from schools across the country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  . They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a ... voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah wah wah wah..." and called back in alarm. We don't know where they came

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the ... congratulations is in order for Zahir Dossa, who I profiled in my first blog. A ... warming in Antarctica! He's currently planning the first few episodes, which

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  Drinking Song, but there is another traditional MIT song (this one in the Logs standard repertoire) that (at least in bits) more accurately ... , my CPW was pretty tame. Keep in mind this is saying tame for CPW - this

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  this year) In more substantial matters: Coming up: (after my Patriot ... sitting on my desk right now) In the meantime, if there is anything that I can help you in making your big decision before May 1, feel free to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  MIT Blackjack Team, opens Friday in movie theaters across America. In ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... based If you are an international student and 21 has not yet opened in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  having dinner in New York with Michel Gondry on MIT money - BUT this should only take a second, and I haven't blogged in so long that I got pushed ... 'S PI TIME (PIE IN THE 132) Date: March 14, 2008 10:13:04 PM EDT To

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch ... 's subtitle ("And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for ... commandments (as sent in his last email to the class), "Thou shalt not tool* from ... only think in numbers and chair conformations from here on out. 1-3 PM

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  open with anticipation for the coming soccer match.   In one ... their control boxes. In the other, Toxic Algae's bots tweaked nervously ... batery failure in a sudden death one-on-one round (a clearly unfair call by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... top of Boston's Prudential Tower. (In case anybody missed the ... MIT graduates hold the world in our hands (cheesy, but yes). If you look

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... , hopefully it's not just some well-known internet hoax that I've been taken in ... characters in Star Wars, so I'm assuming that they're genuine. And since, hey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006