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  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  named. Some people call it hell week, but I've found that even in the ... dead you can get. But wait! What's that? IT'S IN ALL CAPS SO THEREFORE ... stretches of time, allot some study break time, or you will go insane. In

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  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 / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  : Nirvana Played MIT. Perhaps MIT's most (in)famous party is Steer Roast. Each ... to have the best taste in music on campus, they tend to get the best ... played Steer Roast in 1990. Here's the contract: One report says that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... jazzy with an alto sax. Somewhere in the middle of all this, I spent 8

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  is supposed to cap off your four-year experience in Civil and ... Course I seniors, regardless of whether they focused in civil engineering ... people in the class who I honestly haven't seen since sophomore year. The

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 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 History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  , noted in her own post on LGBQT life (and more specifically, The Rainbow ... drawing together a closely-knit, conscientious community in which nobody ... 's actively involved in G@MIT (GLBT at MIT), a Trans Task Force, and MIT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• 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