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  Happiness in threes

  

  ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But ... email from one of my coworkers, sending me information that might be ... now- Adelaide '09 is visiting Madrid! We walked over a huge portion of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an ... 's been a month and a week since I last posted. And it's not for lack of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  staying on The 5th floor of The West parallel. And, I was at The MIT. It ... icebreakers Thursday night (he's the one in the gray sweatshirt). The three of ... physically possible, and to visit all of the dorms. And so, we began our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In total, there are 600+ published events over the course of CPW (wow!). Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not ... entry, might I add, of like eight billion. Snively is totally making me ... never wanted to ask, like my favorite kind of chocolate bite-sized candy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  Are any of you high school seniors who are Massachusetts residents? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... amount of $2000. The deadline is May 30, 2008. For more information: http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team of MIT alums; lots of really smart people. They actually won the hunt 2

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  for seniors) right now. My walls are an uninteresting shade of white. I ... like it. I have a view of the Media Lab and of the construction next to ... like five or six, but my suite is somewhat of an architectural anomaly

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... to have the best year of your life and then just say "But I waited too ... to get your adventurous little self out of the country! I know this

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  freshers from Gonville and Caius College (one of the 31 colleges at Cambridge ... , and avoid pseting (the opposite of punting is tooling). But here in the ... river, in a boat, moving along through the use of a big stick. The punter

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... being eaten by second-order ordinary differential equations instead of first-order ones. Woo! A sign of improvement! Anyway, here. Have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Seeing that my experience at CPW will be very different than that of a prefrosh, I'm inviting

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the School of Architecture and Planning's Mobile Experience lab, and I might

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up ... the lives of MIT freshmen? I think people are very curious about what it ... , Burton-Conner. Of course, this was all squeezed between my reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met ... ) tried to strengthen ties with the University of Zambia (UNZA ... condition (e.g. "In 2000, an estimated 73% of the population lived below the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with Colin '10, Nina '08, and Timur '10 waiting for it to snow. A couple of hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 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 D-Lab Food Fest, and my week of living on $2 a day that preceeded it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  a room full of people doing origami (turns out I was an hour early ... flying grasshopper). OrigaMIT, the origami club of MIT, meets once a week and is open to people of all levels. Jason Ku, the president of the

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

  zOMG Zambia!

  

  So Development Lab (D-Lab), one of my classes this term, announced who is going on which trip this January. I got my first choice country ... - University of Zambia Disacare - wheelchair center IDE - International

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 12, 2006