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  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of chocolate cake.) Burning…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  derived, do a couple sample problems, maybe see a real life application, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn’t ready for this…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  what kind of nonsense this was, but it was making my life very difficult

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  any news in your life. This is not required nor is it expected, but if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  worth-more-than-my-life confocal microscope. (I'm not kidding. If you were

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

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I really want to do them all justice, so I’m gonna answer them next week, when my…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 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 coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I’m MIT’s biggest fan of reality television… well, I’ve declared…

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

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  presumably the last non-science paper I will ever have to write. In my life

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  First, I will note with some sadness that it is currently raining outside. I hate winter rain — it could be snowing so much more productively. It is apparently supposed…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  ...for instance, maybe chronicle the "life" of a single (anonymous) application, its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I’m back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the Pilgrims (and some good post-holiday shopping, too!). Adam and I took our friend Chris ’09 back…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  this support structure, this foundation on which my life ran, of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  I don’t know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of all, I checked my exam grade for 18.01 on-line. Then I started running around the room…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I’m working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10.302: Transport Processes homework. I have a busload to do this weekend and I’m going to…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 AM last night, and spent the extra hour catching up on some much-needed sleep with no…

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

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  (Note of warning: this entry may be short, because I seriously screwed up my back/shoulder/neck area at cheerleading camp tonight, and I kind of can’t move my head. This makes…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  process and provide students with real insight into life on campus. We hope

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  SPECIAL DOUBLE BONUS ENTRY!! I didn’t actually write this entry on Tuesday, but it’s dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled my first all-nighter of the fall term.…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005