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  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  the early universe to him. If that didn’t blow your mind, maybe this ... /trailers without electricity and running water." In case you don't know, this is a ... ; at night, the temperature here drops to below zero (Fahrenheit!). I don’t

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... : (This is also proof that my handwriting isn’t always neat. These are also ... ! ...But it's totally not. Don't worry, Kate's got it covered (she went, too

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  chili, borscht, sopapillas, enchiladas, rolos, and decided that I don't ... , for the first time, wasn't too embarrassed to be the vocalist. I broke ... that having a broken foot doesn't mean you have to lie in bed all day

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  electricity and magnetism, but it didn’t use vector calculus, and my physics ... (why don’t chemists use percent like everyone else? That’s 14.3% of my ... Linguistics, this test doesn’t deserve the label “quiz,” because it’s a full

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  , graduated this past year! So she won't be blogging anymore :( The semester is ... official MIT Arts Portal! (coming soon...) F.A.S.T.: To celebrate MIT's 150th ... approximately 150 days. This Festival of Arts, Science, and Technology [F.A.S.T

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  pitches. So far as I can tell, people weren’t really forming words, just stopping to draw breath. It certainly didn’t sound like anything; I just ... few of the people there had never learned binary, and didn’t know what

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible ... away for the year) on a traffic simulation project in Singapore. I wasn”t ... strange doohickeys my parents bought me that I never used, clothes I wouldn”t

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  disparity is my own doing – I didn't have a job during the year (although few Cambridge undergraduates do) and I didn't note when I watched 24 this year ... many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  secret that I don't like "Like." And that's because I think that it is ... publicly on your profile. And that probably isn't what most users wanted ... suited our purposes, wasn't creepy, and worked just fine. However, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  you can't fix it? Do you really work for the Apple Store?" BARGAINING ... Authorized Repair person. I don't think I've been physically separated from my ... in Athena clusters involve using OpenOffice Word Processor (we don't

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  . Well, that isn't entirely accurate. That's just one specimen. If you look ... and had them stand next to each other, they wouldn't look that different ... that just won't fit here. But there are an incredible number of rockets

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  that MIT wants you to be happy and knows you won't be as happy at MIT as ... . For somebody who doesn't live on campus, like you prefrosh, it's very ... until you live here you just can't know. Be completely honest in your

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  /disliked/bookmarked/etc. For those that don't know about Pandora yet, it's basically free online ... ), but I don't mind them that much - they happen so infrequently that it ... have to make money somehow, right? (Actually, I don't pay the fee

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going ... me, and I really don't think that sending an addendum to my application ... nice of them." Okay, now I'm just being a snob. It also doesn't help

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  , weather shouldn't make or break your decision! When I arrived at MIT, I ... to Simmons after hosting my radio show at 2:30 AM - I don't think I ... pieces of outerwear had been fine at home, they don't cut it here. There

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  う一度　いつまでも - though I don't think it will show up on the URL =p] Can't believe it ... abilities. This all, however, isn't sponsored by MIT though. I had to go ... , so I don't think this is particularly relevant to MIT life...but hey, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  several friends who put that down on their application and got in. Don't let ... realized I haven't talked about my academics all that much this term, I ... make you want to tear your hair out. Moreover, they generally can't be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Identity. At first I didn't know how to take the news. This placement was smelly for a couple of reasons: A) I didn't know I needed a seminar on ... ) I didn't know there was a seminar on masculinity. To be fair, by the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  "one of MIT's best-kept secrets," adding her regrets that she hadn't taken one sooner. Her reasoning? Maybe not what you'd expect. No, it wasn't ... Auditorium (32-123). Many MIT students, though, won't need to attend the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  . It was so beautiful I didn't want the plane to land. II. Almost ... didn't mean just say hi to five people and try to remember their names ... one on my flight back to Boston. So I wasn't too surprised when, just

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008