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  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I ... salad, a baguette, and a pie-tin full of spaghetti with sausage, and ate ... : Waffle Plate 5: 2 Slices of Pizza and Chicken Parm breast. My brothers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... group of rising seniors (and other underclass students) who are anxious to ... utterly listenable 51 minutes.Recently, I had the privilege and pleasure of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  month reading and crafting great summaries of your applications, and now ... and repeat the above, iterated over all of the different subcommittees ... This afternoon, we began early action selection for the Class of 2010

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  's interim director of admissions since last April, and Hastings said he has ... --a cycle that saw a record number of applicants and which we have every ... and the rest of the administration have in me," he told the MIT News

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank ... kisses from across the pond. Ooh, and to serve as a source of distraction

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  for the holidays at MIT. I'm on their mailing list, and this morning ... scheduled, we have, thanks to the labors of Erik and Marty Demaine, installed ... One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  learn and practice some or all of the following: lightweight composite ... The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate ... , manufacturing, testing, and operating a radio controlled aircraft to meet mission
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  On an extra-long Wednesday a week ago, when spring break has come and ... here, only short on time. Sometimes the energy of inspiration is enough ... Scholars outside of the Metropolitan Opera     ...and before

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  opinions on the article and some of the leadership examples they see in GEL ... A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in ... was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some ... LCDs on Wikipedia. Suddenly, Daniel grabbed the computer, and pulled the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  first full day off, which was on Tuesday. I took advantage of this day and ... here on out. Our week-long training was almost entirely composed of ... of being emotionally and even physically delayed..." And to think, my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT ... , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We play a ridiculous amount of intramural sports and have parties that don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  .616 - Games and Culture (blogpost pending) is a class on the role of ... all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a ... it and they have a great blogpost on 21E here, but I'll reiterate it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... AAS business sessions in order to pass resolutions and make decisions on ... lot of useful information and gained insight as to how we can improve

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... -inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs ... finished nearly all of my course requirements over a year ago, and there is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• 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 ... trying to stay on the boat, trying to find the bottom with my stick, and

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

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  test was on Wednesday and then I had three more on Friday. So, I started ... -hour Burton-Conner desk shift Sunday Night 8. Do German I homework and dictation 9. Marching Band rehearsal 10. Finish Harmony and Counterpoint

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Mystery Hunt has begun! Prof. Moriarty from the Evil Institute of ... job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  the door had ever been painted. I thought about it on and off for all the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022