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  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 Facebook group: I know I've been *admitted* to MIT, but I don't know if I am actually smart enough to perform at this fabulous school with you amazing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to ... didn't stick around to find out. Upon reaching said class, our teacher entrusted us to level set and record using a massive set of equipment

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log ... . This happens. We have not yet begun to review partial applications, and ... information upon which to render that decision. That said, you should move

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  option. You figure that the world is over and that you're going to fail out ... complex analysis and goodness-knows-what-else to do that. So, you don ... . - Experience has suggested to me that this, much like using NaBH4 to reduce an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... of a blogger's life, having so much to blog but not enough time to write about it ;)  But summer's winding down now.  The time has come to

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement ... , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the ... -off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask ... creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... ) pretty nonexciting, b) nonexciting to people who don't care about operating ... , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college career. I am almost done with school, almost ready to go out into the real ... copious amounts of work I have to complete. I am thoroughly enjoying my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... local activist groups and residents, he hopes to empower people to monitor ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  , Burchard Scholars Program Coordinator. I've been meaning to write about ... think it's about time. I've alluded to the Burchards program on and off ... to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... invited readers to decide which college the character Alex should attend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... to do) was mechanical engineering. I liked to build things and create things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  -up-the-stairs-without-knee-bending contests; watching math majors play Guitar Hero while I pretended to be ... ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... worst one-word sentence hooks ever. See? Apparently, I forgot how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  . One spoonful of corn chowder was allotted to each resident, provided ... should be plenty to feed the 14-person floor for the next week or so. Paul ... tablespoon and subsequently switching to teaspoons whose volume capacity

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  of Helvetica not only gave aesthetic purity to subway signs but also ... masterpiece of breathlessly-paced storytelling, trying to scan in every color-saturated detail before I had to face the grey ugliness of December in the Midwest

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... , unborn sociological research papers were practically waiting to be pulled ... sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  earlier this week: Computer Program to Take On 'Jeopardy!' YORKTOWN HEIGHTS ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of completing a computer program to compete against human "Jeopardy!" contestants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in physics this saturday. Few things I'm doing to prepare for it: sleeping < 3 hours last night to drastically shift my sleep schedule into

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009