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  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  , Wednesday 23 April and has a picture of a knight on a horse. I was with another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was ... entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not ... 50 (Grape) Vitamin Water. (jk, though I have four empty bottles of it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh? Maybe heard the sounds of a shuffling creature behind you, limping and ... convenient and easily accessible form of defense. Some are oblivious to the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since I basically spent most of my weekend with her, I figured that it wouldn’t make too much of a difference – we’d share the

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that ... , but I got hit by a jolt of admissions reality just now. 1. The deadline ... bit of faith and optimism can go a long way. 4. I've tried my hardest

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  stumble across a page that will crash their browser. Various forms of anger ... vengeance - spamming the owner of the guilty site - to acceptance - writing a ... for a quick bite) and reassembled it here, only to discover that one of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain ... school admissions specialist -there was once this really funny episode of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere ... of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student ... interact more closely with some of your favorite professors from over your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the

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

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

  

  half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... .) Unfortunately, I went to a big public high school of about 2000+, so my high ... unlikely that any of you will get to see it unless someone starts a Pay

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  (UEA)-sponsored lunch with Professor Bengt Holmstrom, the head of the MIT Economics ... juicy bit of information: He's on the Board of Directors for Nokia ... the organization of firms, inspired by his work straight out of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  kind of delicious Kosher jelly candy for passover, both stuffed into my ... really had no intention of ever being Jewish while I during my time at MIT ... the middle of February. You'd think it would be hard to combine a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  web, on email, or over the phone. The date of the mailing will be ... busy time! Most of us are very behind on email, phone calls, etc ... Solomon '06 did stop by to drop off a copy of the new CD by Resonance, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  of the Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center ... ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces of artwork from MIT's collection. Artists represented in the collection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens ... important in this world. And for all this passionate pursuit of excellence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Zaira, an 11th grade student from Brownsville, Texas (the tip of ... to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays ... .) --------------- Thanks for all of the comments on my previous entry about PE classes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  top of a lounging student's head. A touch football game broke out on ... . Afterwards, some students stuck around to ask more questions of MIT student ... Merritt Roe Smith. After the brunches, all of the dorms provided house

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  , because today is the grand opening of Anna's Taqueria on campus! Anna's Taqueria is perhaps the best know Boston restaurant of the variety "cheap AND ... awaiting the opening of the MIT Anna's just as eagerly as the students. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  implement a lot of my requests into MyMIT - YES! 5) Well not this week but ... actually part of the plot and (b) the kids are just so much more intelligent and witty than their counterparts of yesteryear. But it's still... The

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... typing class where i first learned the joys of nitrotype and home row ... stint and i think i was capped at like 23 which is kind of sad) and doing

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023