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  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift campaign Our class’s theme is the “5.0 Challenge” — to achieve at least 50% participation in donating. Sadly,…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  I said I’d do it, no? Many of these websites won’t have information about Summer 2007 programs up until around January, but the info from last summer is still comprehensive…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I just cooked large amounts of angel hair pasta with ground beef in black bean…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? A long time ago, before the Fleet Center was built, spectators at the Boston Garden reported seeing leprechauns in the rafters during Boston Celtics games. Many years…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  (There comes a time in all great bloggers’ lives when, while writing a particularly good entry, they happen to deviate from their work and stumble across a page that will…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops on our journey, one…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  (Yeah yeah, right now it’s Saturday but I wrote this on wednesday night so shut up.) Right now it is Wednesday night I’m starting/finishing/making minimal progress on my 8.03 problem…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  So I thought I’d show you just what I was talking about in my last entry where I talk about the horrible trigonometric torture I endured in my 2.001 lecture.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last night,…

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson,…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we’re going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, this is a lab class where we learn about some of the measurement…

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  Here’s what I will see every Monday, Friday, Saturday, and many Wednesdays for the next 4 months… (Sorry for the bad photo; I only had my camera phone here at…

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? If you drink one can of soda every day for six months, you will gain fifteen pounds more than you would have gained not drinking that soda.…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part

  

  Soooo someone asked on Sam’s blog: Are you and Mitra dating? I wish! You ask a fair question, though. After all, Sam does lean uncomfortably close to me in pictures.…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  D-Lab Food Fest A week on $2 a day, followed by a meal from around the world

  

  Sorry, I am a bit swamped for the next couple of days with some 14.05: Macroeconomics work. As soon as I can, I will write an entry on the delicious…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  Hey, remember that job I got six months ago? I start this week! (I got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I’d be the…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The traditional wedding march is from Wagner’s Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a “barbarian wedding.” There’s going to be a…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  Judging by the facebook group “I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves!” with 42,000 members, everybody loves a math joke. My roommate, a…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I received an interesting little poster entitled, “101 Things to Do Before You Graduate.” It’s full of…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It’s finally in its final draft pending approval by…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006