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  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 mph in the gaspingly brief time required to scream barely the first two ... recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... too much to try and blog about. So while I'm working on resizing my 3 TB worth of photos to put in my blog and writing my entries, I thought it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  corner of their heart a little bit from time to time, well, here's my ... is startled. I'm sure. But I'm going to do it anyways. I've lost the element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  (Read on to find why, after this commercial break). The third floor ... to the 3rd floor lounge tripled due to the stepping-over of crowds of ... while the other half burst into the lounge to phone headquarters with our

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  . Today, all gone, gone, gone. I woke up this morning to a quiet ... light outside was grey and a bit yellow and when it deepened to blue I ... 're accustomed to on our birthdays? Well, I think I've lost that a while ago, but

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a bubble in that, as an MIT student, you start to forget what the outside world is like. I remember during out field trip to Hasbro last year, we

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  to provide the chance to participate in random, spontaneous, fun events ... gathering of similar magnitude to my past adventures. This one, a Revolutionary War recreation, was bound to be one of the more epic moments of my

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus ... together is during “Greek Week,’ which was held this year from April 27 to ... contributed to the team”s point total: Sunday: - Cake and pie baking contest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  down your bags and sigh because it feels so good to be home? Yeah. That's kind of what going back to MIT feels like. So I visited back in February ... want to get technical about it, CPW served no other purpose for me other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... of EA admits from last year's 390 to this year's 522. Fear not, we have no plans to increase the class size, nor are we abandoning the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  our future. MIT has been very active in developing solutions to energy ... entries). Today, Thomas Friedman, an op-ed contributor to the NY Times ... .I.T. students and faculty, and “fact-based analysis,” including a trip to Saudi

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... tomorrow. The really great thing about coming to Cambridge is that we’re invited to all the Fresher’s (that’s what they call

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  go way back, to high school, actually, and then to last April, when I ... Chi Omega. Anyway, the point of this entry was to introduce you to yet ... ’s only all-female dormitory. MIT women choose to live here for a variety of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  Massachusetts to Malaysia) will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2011. If there's one in your area, you should check it out -- it's a great opportunity to meet some potential future

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  ! And, don't worry, if for whatever reason you don't get to talk to an MIT student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. (We'll also try to make some more phone calls next Tuesday) Also, admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to blog. Last Wednesday, I knew it was supposed to snow pretty much all day

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I'd love to talk to you about whatever, because you're now affiliated with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  You want to know the hardest part about this job? Entry titles. It's like impossible to think of some clever 4 word phrase to encapsulate your ... of her friends, and their kids (which turned out to be a surprising

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom and Gomorrah when I decided to check my grades, like I do, you know ... Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... to regular action for further consideration. I am often asked why MIT's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006