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  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  time, always amidst great fanfare and in every creative, apocalyptic way ... days in a row and had a bunch of guys poke and prod at it. The verdict ... apparently wrong in my computer in a very big way. The guy recommended wiping

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  that are knee-deep in finals (including yours truly). Finals at MIT are ... your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  in: Steer Roast is Senior House's claim to fame - it's our annual weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our ... , because only life can kill you." Steer Roast has been held in the spring

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  promised, celebrated his admission in December by running around the yard ... creating charcoal out of waste material to prevent deforestation in the third ... place in Geneva with the particle accelerator that might create a black

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  me. I spent from 9 AM to 2 PM in various chat rooms, blogs, forums, and ... come to MIT. I was just as interested in seeing who got in as anybody ... 't gotten in and spent quite a while fairly upset. Thousands of applicants

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  their position. The three professors in favor of the hamentashen were ... - Terrascope lecturer (sitting in the middle) - Erik Demaine- Professor ... professors in favor of the latke were: - Peter Dourmaskin- Professor of Physics

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  in 1.5 hours gets their picture on the wall, a t-shirt, free hot dogs ... . Anybody interested, let's meet in the 23 at 3ish. You're welcome to try to ... accordingly and went for a jog in order to make myself hungry. A group of us

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  UROP in the O'Connor Lab. The lab's a part of the chemistry department ... involves techniques in molecular biology as well as biochemistry and organic ... looking too late in the year), she asked me if I was okay with starting in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than ... in Cambridge, as well as part of Boston, and runs 24/7 - which means a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  ’t do particularly well in any of them. I ended up with a 3.9/5.0 semester GPA and a D in 10.490. I’ve never gotten a D in my life, and I’m sure many of you are in the same boat. It’s quite a humbling feeling; one I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly ... , learned independently how to program in Matlab, conducted your full set of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  solves chemical engineering problems in an industrial context, with ... Unified. For computer scientists, it's "Laboratory in Software Engineering ... 's most often taken in the junior year.) And as you could've guessed, for

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  summer, but then I got the ambulance job up here so I'm staying in Boston instead. But I can email them for you!" In response, I said this: "At this ... Spectrum duty desk in the lobby of McCulloch Hall at Northwestern University

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  undergraduates. The EECS department is the best in the country and has pioneered ... , a senior majoring in Course 6 to learn about her experiences with the major. Hanhan’s love for Course 6 is contagious! In high school, she

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea ... meet everyone who got in and hear about their stories about how they ... guys all rock in one way or another. Sorry to those of you who couldn

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks ... . But seriously, guys, everything's really up in the air right now. I ... found me my summer internship in Germany last summer. It's kind of too

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  Earlier this week, I attended an event in Washington DC where I got ... consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to ... little like falling in love: one trip to the campus and they "just knew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  most people are quick to say that they're just fine. In fact, if there's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a ... precisely what one should never do in situations like these and ignored it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  , the answer is inevitably “In lab.” My class schedule serves to justify ... systems are actually all around you (and even in you! For example, your ... the concepts presented in lecture. Incidentally, Laura is also taking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007