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  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  , which is likely why some of you have been having problems. We'll get to the bottom of that asap, but in the meantime, if you've already ... . (And if you haven't registered yet, please do so using one of those

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  So this weekend my 61 of my fraternity brothers and I drove several ... goodness for GPS and my 4 co-pilots. So amidst a weekend of planning ... tomorrow: looking ahead to the semester of TWO classes!!!

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over last year's 11,373 applications. So, the results of the guessing game ... ,000 applications. The mean of all guesses was 12,323 (not bad!) and the median was 12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely attractive and well-mannered members of Team Bemis spent Saturday night a couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  project of the MIT-alumni company Squid Labs), where there's a DIY ... ? recirculating fountains of food seemed like the obvious escalation. a custom ... of delicious, piping hot gravy. Have a great holiday, everyone.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a ... 'll return to you the actual piece of spacecraft hardware which carried your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  those of you who are looking for one: "We will be running an annual bike ... 3rd week of school, but you can usually get something ridable for ... pick up some other college essentials... " Enjoy the last week of summer!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer. National Ice Cream Day was on July 16, 2006. Even though I did not go get ... distance of the 'Tute. Get the Scoop here. Joke answer: Pi a'la mode.

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... -to-analog conversion, and eventually produces an ASCII file of spike peak times. I ... of these), and through a textbook on theoretical neuroscience (i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The landscape of the Charles River around MIT is almost ... , swimming and fishing are progressively re-emerging as about 90% of the length of the river is now considered safe for swimming. Health risks remain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  . Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean jerk. Miraculously, it didn't even bleed one drop for the rest of the day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Thursday

  

  defense of Phil '05 5:30-6:30 -- piano drop at Baker House (in honor of Drop Date) 6:30-9:00 -- "Three tongues of the Muse" -- A tricultural poetry

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  . Well, I'll show you what I have... The early hours of Thursday found me ... moment for me, because this time last year Anthony was simply one of my ... reg desk. Very cool. It wouldn't be a good entry without a picture of

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it ... apparently I was erroneous. Maybe it's like the wedding episode of I Dream of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  holding the following festivities in honor of pi day: Pie baking contest Pi ... -related prizes. ----------- In honor of Pi Day, the UA Dining Committee invites ... Center Lobby 6 kinds of pies a la mode Share your thoughts

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  event was particularly special for me because I was one of the four ... of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is ... live in the house. The rest of us are scattered around campus. Publicity

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we ... - it will indeed be in mid-March, but Mail Day depends on a variety of factors, one of which is how long selection takes. And as you know, we

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  The annual Mystery Hunt (history here) begins tomorrow at 12:17pm in MIT's Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here one of last year's most clever puzzles (this was just one of 114

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say that I will probably not be posting anything of substance here until at ... pictures of the new 5th East kitten on it. While I am busy in testing hell

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005