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MYSTERY HUNT! Live from Mystery Hunt!
coming soon. I'll let you know that part of today's challenge involved me eating an entire box of cookies and a bag of sun chips. Needless to say, I'm never eating either of those again. If you want to join in and remote -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Not Admitted A forum
There were a record number of applications for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a great number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an -
Blog / MIT Life
A short entry about dorm awesomeness
You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many -
Blog / MIT Life
Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.
of Boston's air pollution. Soaked in a brew of life-shortening chemicals, I wrestled down the nightmare-inducing plethora of health concerns ... , choking on flying needles of acid precipitation, battled onwards across the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!
Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from -
Blog / MIT Life
Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.
No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of ... me you don't know! (gasps) It's the WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS! Actually, I only discovered this little snippet of information yesterday while -
Blog / Admissions
Quick update A short entry, a quick link, and I become Seth Cohen.
In honor of my trip to the OC, Ben made this for me: And the link of the day: The Art of Problem Solving (more on this next entry) A longer update soon... -
Blog / Academics & Research
World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.
opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of ... -foot building of limestone and glass, the largest research building on campus -
Blog / Admissions
ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.
: 7 cartons of ice cream* 3 jars of fudge 3 jars of caramel 3 cans of whipped cream 2 jars of sprinkles 2 jars of cherries 3 boxes of brownie mix 3 boxes of cake batter 3 tubs of icing 4 decorating gels 4 packages of -
Blog / Events
Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share
a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events ... embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment ... night, I randomly pull up three of these prompts randomly, to practice the -
Blog / Events
Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!
them virtually via the webcast of President Obama's speech. The ... can watch a live webcast of the speech here: MIT President Obama Live ... Institute of Technology an institution that has been developing cutting edge -
Blog / MIT Life
Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.
In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the traditions that temper the pains of work and study with the welcome relief of ... prepared by a group of residents on Pecker floor and generously shared -
Blog / Admissions
Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.
From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very ... Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to high school-age students who have done significant work of their own -
Blog / Events
Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.
long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the Safe ... one of the most anticipated parties of the year, a great MIT tradition ... , Eric Klopfer, and Margery Resnick. One of the big appeals of the party -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.
event that showcases hundreds of MIT's student groups (you may have seen this over at Sam's blog). Of MIT's 300+ groups, approximately 250 of them ... of MIT student activities, courtesy the Association of Student -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition
The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of -
Blog / MIT Life
Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.
From Star Simpson '10: Nando Paniagua '10 manually created this database of housing info for at least half (so far) of the class of 2010, so that people can find other orientation housemates/roommates. Check it out -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Waitlisted
't accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Waitlisted
accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have