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  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  credits required for graduation. Being a tech school, the balls representing the engineering classes are three times more valuable than the ones for ... a piece of tape. For the round of 32, my robot was doing splendidly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  should desire a GPA of 0.2/5.0 or so. Conventional wisdom for the ... starlight. Lately I've been tracing a trajectory through the last week of summer that curves just short of preparations for the impending semester

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  for a subtle blend of vodka, cabbage and Soviet style. B: Secondly the ... Mountains of Kyrgyzstan and into Kazakhstan for a dash north to the Russian ... underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  suite, but the 30-second walk down the hall was a small price to pay for ... For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 ... thereby increase the efficiency of daily lives--like, for example, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e ... too much" in the words of a popular website --delicious chicken ... see what's it's like, I'm trying to be a vegetarian for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  'm doing a bad job at this regular updating thing. I promise that within the ... -chemical basis for the structures of nucleic acids, proteins, and carbohydrates ... classes, and some of you are probably curious about the classes offered at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  lot of press for this lately, between the radio show and a Boston Globe ... Myles Crowley, a spokesman for the school. Other seminars this year ... , tools, and applications in bioengineering and a survey of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  . I recklessly chose the honey mustard instead without asking for a ... 's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." Ahhh, New York City, winning the ... THE WHALE! Nice weekend. More later. Okay, more. So, for words

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  9 is a popular major for the premed-minded. The major is pretty ... evaluation guide, the class consistently gets a rating of 6 (out of 7), and ... .01, Intro to Neuroscience. This class has changed since I took it (for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  hope my floor uses the opportunity to buy a $1000 wide-screen television ... enlisting him to help design a new banner for Turkey vs. Spam--what do you think? Could the bunny hat use a bit of an update? Anyway, over the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  saw a sizable sprinkling of upperclassmen as well. Virtually all of the ... year. I then received a stack of about ten single-sided sheets, one for ... the pre-frosh I called were from the Midwest, since I asked for people

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... vulnerable or the reasons they are here. A planet that harbors intelligent and ... ungainly Erector set. So intrigued was Ebert by the concept of a three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  . The winning team will get a cash prize of $50.00 for their floor. Laura ... -American Rejects played a free concert on Saturday for the event! ---------- COMING ... Though I haven't had internet for the past week, there has still been

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Princeton for two and a half years. Why do I do this? Because the money's good ... Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to ... groaned about what a lame pun that was. On a slightly unrelated note, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  the bridge, and carry them up a steep set of stairs on the other side ... you're at MIT, though! Join the MIT Cycling team. Don't have a bike ... On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  ICE 15 minutes before the deadline, I was indeed a little bit ready for ... DID YOU KNOW? A long time ago, before the Fleet Center was built ... grandparents, but they're a little too touristy for a future Boston resident to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  A few nights ago, I was walking down the Infinite Corridor with two ... took pictures. I'll also summarize the pictured hacks for you. It's been a while since the Hack Gallery was updated, and only a couple of these

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  "...albeit a very useful one." --Albert Einstein I think I found the ... Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will ... am done with all my work for the semester if I can be reading about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  " as a catalyst for discussion, seminar participants will examine gender ... complete a final written project. No prior knowledge of "Sex and the City" is ... . Eagar, A. Kadak, J. Freidberg, B. S. Johnston 4.605 Introduction to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... I managed to need so much luggage for a 3-month trip to Germany. Anyway, check back tomorrow for some info on classes and/or a map of MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006