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  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  and pie! - - HKN Social Committee A few pictures and videos from the ... sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received ... up a coveted UMA Pi Day T-shirt. See you there! Tonight, Eta Kappa Nu

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  me three classes away from a chem degree. Regardless of what anyone may ... Two days ago, I won a 35mm SLR on eBay! Now I have something I can ... a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... from a plaque at the Grand Canyon museum. Which leaves one wondering: who ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  from students who have taken a gap year has been: No one ever regrets ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  from every song I ever heard at a dance from 6th-8th grade. Could my ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  direction. I commute to and from work every day about an hour. I take a train ... day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure agreements and the threat of prison I can't tell you a whole lot about it, but

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  A reminder: Fall 2006 UROP Direct Funding (Funds from UROP) Deadline ... ? -  Can you afford the time away from your coursework? -  Can you work on a ... supervisor to benefit from a research collaboration. - What area of research do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  gets a big gold star from me. 15. Money doesn't grow on trees... and ... This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  series from a few years back, American High (filmed at Highland Park High ... film for discussion, from both a cultural/sociological perspective and from a movie enthusiast perspective. Her contact information is here. On

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  Massachusetts Avenue A Glimpse into Boston from the Harvard Bridge: Surely, the ... : My newest source of vitality and inspiration Seen from the MIT Sailing ... on the light (from mitsloan.mit.edu). E62 is also the most energy

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  a long, philosophcal answer are not ideal for this format.  Otherwise, ask away! Let me give you a brief update from campus...  The ... , let me leave you with a photo from this week's annual East

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  captures the Boston skyline from a different vantage point than Arya's photo ... details to your imagination, for now at least). The picture was taken from the Longfellow Bridge over the Charles River (if you panned a bit more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  life?" I was a bit down in the dumps when I got this email from my mom about a recently completed water-channel bridge in Germany. Isn't that ... and over eighty to plan. It functions as a giant bathtub, connecting two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  (This is a direct paste from an email.) The Undergraduate ... -ever Study Abroad Fair! When: Today, Wednesday, October 5th 2005, from 12 noon ... ) Take a look at the countless academic and cultural prospects that over 25

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  at work on his second novel. Another friend of mine from my undergrad days, Geeta Dayal, is also a writer, but for periodicals. She most ... story. Wow! I also have a friend who wrote a one-act play that was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  admissions, the overwhelming sentiment from students who have taken a gap year ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... afterwards. ...and honestly, that while is just a bit too little. Anyway, after ... airport in Philadelphia, and from there I'll be in the aeroplane over the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  from a television tuner). it costs about $20, and (with the help of some ... hardware system from scratch is really really hard. it took a lot of scratch ... food. i found a cookie recipe over the weekend that's really working for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  for it! Here's a stellar guest post from current resident Dan Parker '15 ... , I’m a freshman from Binghamton in upstate New York, interested in ... and a skip from the Kendall T (subway) stop, a cook-for-yourself dorm

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  't heard much about it until you've heard it from an MIT student - and a ... , if only because it'll preserve my soul from the fatigue induced by a ... 's working on a thesis right now, but the pre-finals frenzy (read: cramming

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011