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  Redefinitions Name the planet contest REDUX.

  

  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/pluto-new.html So now, we’re down to 8 planets. Thus, the contest needs revision itself. Best mnemonic you can make with MVEMJSUN. Ready, set, go!

  • by Bryan
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT’s original Course 20, “Food Technology, Nutrition Science, and Applied Biological Sciences”, existed in the MIT Course Handbook for 17 years without any faculty or staff, until…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010 (otherwise known as MIT MMX) begins their pre-Orientation. Orientation itself begins on Sunday, but for half of the class,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid on display with 20-foot-long tentacles. Last night in my dorm we had a going-away potluck dinner for…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Riemann Zeta Hypothesis was voted to be the most beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends from high school was voted…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend spent in Columbus (where I ordered my wedding dress, yay! Now I just have to wait…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I’m actually really looking forward to this semester. The classes I’ll be…

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The second-best picture we took in Paris This entry is dedicated to Regis Philbin.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? I. M. Pei, who graduated from the MIT school of architecture in 1940, designed the glass pyramids in front of the Louvre. “Agh, I’m so tired.” “Guys!…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  So you’re flying to college. Or you’re flying anywhere alone, and you’re me. You charge your iPod and your computer and pack extra underwear and think about all the new…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  While I was on vacation this past week, MIT Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones was featured in an online chat on TIME.com, following up on their college admissions-themed issue. Similarly,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city and bike across the Golden Gate bridge. Now granted, full-time residents of San Francisco do this…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn’t even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ship it all the way across the country. But we do, so I started packing…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And yet I bring you this bonus blog entry. Do I love you, or do I love you? Questions…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  I’m done with the MCAT! Well, at least for now (we’ll see once I get the score report in two months.) In other news, I got this email from the…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “MIT Abounds With UROP Students” A photo spread about student research.

  

  The most recent issue of MIT’s student newspaper The Tech had a nice spread about summer UROPs. UROP is MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and is the oldest and most…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa be straightened. Engineers decided that the best solution would be to pour concrete into its base. The tower…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  So here’s a sneak peek at what I’ve been working on all summer… the new admissions site. I can’t wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1: the new homepage.…

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  If you’re old like me, you’ll remember a classic episode of Saved by the Bell where Zach Morris joined the quiz bowl team but then the token nerd, Screech, got…

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story by Joyce Carol Oates that…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Love Math Snakes on a plane!

  

  Yes, I will be watching this at 10 pm Thursday night. This might be the end of Samuel Jackson’s career, and I might as well be there for it. And…

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2006