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  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the ... Technology for a Clean Energy Future * Yang Shao-Horn - Session Chair ... attitudes 2:15-2:45pm Break 2:45-4:00pm PANEL SESSION III Energy for a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  nostalgia for me and I still know a lot of the lyrics by heart. Coffee by ... listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these ... you all through that with me. For a brief overview into my different

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , but I guess the failing part happens before the asking for help part, so ... is how to design a robot, or how to calculate the thermodynamic ... -zero integers a, b, and c. Well, it just ain't so. I mean, if the cold hard facts

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Super Smash Bros. Brawl is coming out for the Wii on ... into a never-ending search for free wireless access. Today that came in the form of a McDonald's in Marseille, France. Seriously. As Samuel L

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  [Justin '08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I ... thus the pace is certainly more intense for a given semester at MIT ... Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  , and more generally, techniques for studying how the brain works as a ... and the obvious intersection of her two majors. It's also what a lot of ... electrochemistry. There's a lot about the different types of ion channels. You will

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  battles too, no matter how poor the odds seem. I slept like a rock for 2 ... , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... . S. Johnston Every major at MIT has a course that's famously hard. For

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle just like the Torino medals. A much more close-up shot. You can see the construction and securing details. It was a very windy day, but the medal

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  more than a distant reading of the blogs (at least, for this particular ... for people, well, we're a navel-gazing bunch: of the 10 most talked ... (or maybe ever). But I have come to the conclusion that, for a variety

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  the MIT campus (makes for a nice walk on most nights). (I think I may ... I am. After waiting for an hour in line as they set up for the ... , I just watched Napoleon Dynamite again.) To make up for the lack of

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... to head down to the Hatch Shell and pick up tickets for the concert

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  student ID, a form to apply for my athena username, some instructions on the ... on coming, and over the next few months I got a dreidel for Hannukah ... holding a fantastic event TODAY in our Sukkah on the Kresge Oval. We'll be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  he strongly encourages you to check out a complete listing of all the ... responsibility. The thesis may be a design project, an analytical paper, or ... more of the following: 1. Design of a system followed by construction

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it's understandable that they're leaving out all the Trachimbrod parts from the novel ... Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  2 MIT alums (including a former blogger) for a week on the west coast ... Oakland, where Ruth '07 works. While there, I had to snap a photo of the ... edition. Thankfully, a lot of the more famous things about San Francisco

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  inorganic chemistry and think you have a remarkable gift for conveying the ... the student center, for dinner during his all-night vigils in lab. And I ... requires paperwork filed through the UROP office "I took my UROP for credit

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

  So many problem sets

  

  connectivity. 5. a) Draw Newman projects for the six energy maxima and minima ... . Mathematics of the integrate-and-fire neuron a) For a spherical neuron with a ... determine the VTC for nand2, we'll perform a dc analysis to plot the gate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  A few weeks ago, I organized a 140+ person barbecue for the many ... awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester.  A bunch of my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  So I know the entire world has been waiting anxiously for the release ... thesis research for him on my own for the next three months, so nobody ... sandbath preheaters and ooh free bagels!" so I shirked responsibility for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  with a Grignard reagent onto a tert-butyl halide. For the exact nature of ... tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story ... of THALIDOMIDE. 3. Fluorine is a TERRIBLE nucleophile. Despite the 59

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006