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  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  [Apologies that this entry is so delayed. I’ve been walking around like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot of sweat trying to get…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  On Saturday evening, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 Americans who have won the 2009 Rhodes Scholarships. The Rhodes Scholarship, described as “the oldest and best known award for international…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to be going my way. Case in point number 1: As I was returning to Boston recently, we flew…

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty. It was pretty ugly. Checkout the…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  The Records Office has processed all application components received for EA applicants; the current status of your application is now shown on your MyMIT application tracking. MyMIT Application Tracking This…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• 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…

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  Today, I felt: angry and heartbroken. Because: the first question on my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers with 5 significant figures, and the professor did…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tunnel Adventures We didn't get lost, in case you were wondering.

  

  Aside from classrooms and auditoriums and dorms, MIT also plays host to an elaborate system of tunnels that wind under and in between the various buildings that make up the…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  Well, that was a crazy week. If you’ve been reading the blogs a long time, you may have noticed a few trends. Every year, each blogger gets two freebie posts;…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  QUOTE: “My advice to a high school student interested in science as a career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks about the answers.…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  TGIF! After a long week comes...a FEAST!

  

  Sorry for being MIA you guys! I’ve had a tough couple of weeks, but I’m back! Thursday night/Friday morning was filled with intense tooling, but it was well worth Friday’s…

  • by Celena C. '12
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  Ahhhh. Wednesday. Veteran’s Day. A day FREE of classes. A one-day weekend! Wooohooo!!! Yesterday, I decided that today would be perfect for a movie/drama/DDR marathon! So I found my friends…

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  Dear November, 2009: I’ve reached the age when self-discoveries are easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  Applicants who have been watching the online tracking system at MyMIT may be wondering, where’s my recommendation from Mr. Brown? How about the letter from Ms. Chu? And my transcript?…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  I thought you might enjoy the below blog by Professor Patrick Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70, via Slice of MIT, reprinted with Prof. Winston’s permission. Below that, I…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Some weeks ago, Jeanne ’13 and I embarked upon yet another of our voyages into Boston, meandering past our usual destinations and toward the Boston Symphony Hall, where we hoped…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman ’13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Detachment 365, including myself, traveled over to Hanscom Air Force Base…

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  Hallo everybody. As it turns out, video editing is a very time intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I’ve got something pretty cool in store,…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from reticent affection to soul-consuming infatuation. Apologies before I go any further: if you expected me to write about…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  As the MIT EA deadline approached last year, I remember reading over my essays obsessively, fine-tuning my sentences, changing words, and asking others for advice. It got to the point…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009