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  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  My holiday story: At the end of December my son’s preschool decided to have an after-work event at which parents would construct gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06… ————————————- Many people wrote in with concerns about the application tracking portlet. Please don’t worry, and there’s no need to call the…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone Yeah, so it was boring. But it’s still where I spent the better portion…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  Happy New Year to everyone! As you may have noticed I’ve been absent from The Nance Effect. As hard as it is to believe, even I needed to take break.…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL (seriously, 41 kbps? WTF.) for…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Just 5 Days Left! Mystery Hunt begins in 5 days.

  

  Until Mystery Hunt 2006!!! Here’s a little puzzle to get you inspired courtesy of my friend Pete: 100 folks are caught on an island by cannibals and put to the…

  • by Bryan
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP)! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where students have lots of…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  So, usually I stay away from College Confidential, as it has a way of making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do read…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to America’s Test Kitchen, the best possible multipurpose 9×13 pan is a Pyrex pan which costs only $8.00? It’s my last night in Harrisburg, PA and…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  As I write, our terrific Records Office team is processing the largest volume of mail you’ve ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened, sorted, entered into…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can’t say I’m the biggest…

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I’m back in Boston for the moment, I’m kind of running around because I’m jet-lagged like…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  Again, happy 2006 to everyone! Electricity and cable have been restored at my house — I hope everyone who is still without power (and probably isn’t reading this) is safe…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Both chocolate lava cake and peanut blossom cookies were invented at the Pillsbury Bake-Off. It’s not the holidays unless Sam’s Mom and I have baked four award-winning…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  Well, I’ve been sleeping a lot. I don’t really understand why, during term, my body can’t normally sleep more than 8.5 hours in a night even if it pulled an…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow, here are a few notes… Some folks from MIT and NIST further confirmed that, yes, E=mc2. The new mayor of…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn’t ready for this…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  Hi everyone, Just wanted to say hello. Having been out for a week I am presently inundated with email and related communications backlog; I will respond to everything but it…

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  So most people start off the new year with a new hairstyle, but since I don’t have that much hair to play around with, the next best thing is to…

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life lessons. Some you would prefer not to learn, but in the long run, I’m sure I’ll…

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005