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  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  I'M DONE WITH FALL CLASSES! and am now back home in London, doing British things like drinking tea, spelling humor 'humour,' and hiding ... that your uncle is in fact crazy.) Cutest observer ever: A note

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church ... instrumental backups.  like in Pitch Perfect!) Anyways, as you may know, a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  participated in as a freshman... and now help coordinate! During the short ... idea of what we do in the program by taking a look at all the students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  are curious.) But in any case, if you don't know who I am, all you need ... up a fake science show where Ryan and I would do experiments in our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I ... 't cut it for me and that certain materials didn't sink in until after ... absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  memorial service found other ways to pay their respects: Rest in peace ... -Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  'estaloam', which can be stretched to mean 'this soil' in Spanish. As in 'Mira ... substitution, or u-substitution, in that monthly amounts are probably good for ... excited that you have been selected to join us in the inaugural FYE

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the ... the Internet) went to Maker Faire out in CA last year and wrote a blog

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  . As usual, Steven was in the loop. He mentioned how he had stumbled upon ... an anoymous artist has been placing these little guys in cities all

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember ... , I had no idea what MIT was. It could have been in Michigan or Maryland ... as a freshman in high school. She is me at the core. She is enough to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... -deathmatch style, minus the cage and death parts. 6.470 finals are pretty boring in ... , one of our freshmen, Kamran '14, won 6.470 with something he made in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  beloved green covered in snow, and those from equatorial climates suffer at ... hoping to ski--there's not really snow anywhere in North America. But some ... and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I ... this post a month ago, so in the interim, I've also built a ray tracer ... of a non-real-time graphics engine. In real life, photons bounce off of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... the question in the last paragraph. In a mentally demanding job, loving

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  they’re paying attention when in reality all they’re doing is scribbling incoherent pen-markings in every wild direction on their notebooks. You can ... can't understand my notes is not because they are written in some odd

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  he played The Fonz in Happy Days). 20.441 is probably my favorite class ... everyone in the class and he's gonna cold-call you and make you think on your ... the real world in front of the whole class even though you were totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading ... in, and many of us are busy looking at our shoes as we walk. So to ... share with you one interesting fact about the evening. I managed to, in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Mikey since last year's waitlist decisions were posted in May?!" Well ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... memories of two years ago. I remembered sitting in their shoes, feeling

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  our tireless devotion to describing, in unnecessarily sordid detail, the ... are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh ... optimization in C memory allocation works any more. I just want to go to sleep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  stamps for us to spam irreverently. We proceeded to arrange them in every ... in place of my usual verbosity.    

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011