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  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  Having read MIT applications for a long time now, I know that MIT ... ,000 And $10,000 Davidson Fellow Scholarships The Davidson Institute for ... .S. resident residing in the United States. There is no minimum age for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  ticket for the Super Special Hotel Train, leaving Ling '07 and I stranded ... the Museum of Catalan Art for a unique fountain show at 9:00. We weren ... a catenary curve, which is the shape that a string hangs in when you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  opporunity to see War of the Worlds for free--a premium discount on the already ... This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to ... to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  've been in Germany for a little over a week now and I've already climbed 509 ... blog entries might be a bit sparse over the next three months due to an ... , for the low, low price of 1,50 euro per hour. However, the upper room

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  anybody cared to memorize maybe more than a 100 of e? 3. the formulas for ... American Gods. For the day's entertainment, I introduce you to the conecpt ... emailing lists for official announcements and such, have a "talk list", or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  -Conner for South Station by the T. Once there, I'll stop at Au Bon Pain kiosk there for a cheese croissant and a large tea before my 6:40 AM train to ... goals for spring break: 1. go to the optometrist to replace the pair 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  'll rust. Your kid will wrinkle up if left in the bathtub for a couple hours ... . My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to ... the following activities. 1. Playing Jewel Master for the Sega Genesis

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

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  optimization problem for a group of five to select which bus out of the 10 ... during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got ... , and along the way stopped at three different bookstores looking for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  , the company I'm working for in my UROP got into Discover Magazine again ... nations, would ban the practice, creating more demand for his machinery to ... your school library or something if you get the chance--it's a nicely

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  Newbury Street could fit on the palm of my hand. So I puzzled for a while ... picked out a nice, simple black skirt for $8 (I love the Garment District). Then, I rummaged through the blouses for a while and found a nice shiny

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  'm writing an article about the tournament for the MyMIT website, so I won ... (Tommys?) were really cute. The five-year old one sure played a mean pinball ... about these later. LSC gave out calendars for the movies they are showing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  . This is a dumb story, but scroll down for some more pictures. I left my ... that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator ... DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  ! Apple Bake has been a fall culinary tradition in Burton-Conner for the ... organizes a mass shopping trip for over $100 of food the Friday before the ... Porter Room Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc. For example, last week, some people constructed the following to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  thing I said to the lab assistant was, "Can you give me a hand? I have no ... over the summer, and of course this only increased my appetite for toast by a thousandfold, so I stuck a piece of white bread in the oven and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa ... inter-floor activity fund whereby the entire dorm gets $3000 a term to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2026!

  

  a war with the feral bunnies of Camberville so they don't eat all my ... MIT for Sin LíMITe, or UROP, or become a mentor for Project Manus, or learn a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  professors. And, for that matter, a good job answering the campus one, but I ... -issue. However, there are a few freshman doubles on every hall. In these, the beds ... singles, doubles, triples and quads. For a quad, I suppose, one could have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  really fun experience. Now for the fun part: Class of 2009 Ring Design A ... a prominent symbol (the '08 ring has their class number in binary, for ... that has the most potential for controversy lately. Here's a quick

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007