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Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...yeah right! Happy April Fool's Day :) No seriously it was like 2am when, after working on a serious blog post for a few hours, I realized what day -
Blog / MIT Life
Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston
hours of varying vocal exercises. I applaud the aspiring singer’s efforts ... school year. Over IAP I was in the EMT class for 9 hours a day and now during the summer, I’m working, on average, 11 hours a day. I have fun -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)
Cory and I paused for about an hour and a half while looking for Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this afternoon. This is the weekly magazine The Nation. This is the first half of -
Blog / Personal Travel
Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...
friends and I rented a car and drove the ~2 hours to Cape Cod. It was cold ... car and drove to Montréal. It's a 5-hour drive if you take a straight ... trip there took 6 hours instead. On the way back we stopped for a tour of -
Blog / Admissions
Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.
for the next ~12 hours or so I will try to answer any question you ask -
Blog / Miscellaneous
“All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.
is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City ... travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with ... happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of -
Blog / Athletics
So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance
at 5pm and goes for an hour or two until 7pm at the latest. For both my ... ). Sundays very rarely have commitments. So that's 10-12 hours/week before ... number of fashions. First, on a day to day basis, athletes have fewer hours -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Truth About Science comic-style.
spend a significant portion of the next 72 hours taking full advantage of -
Blog / Extracurriculars
North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.
hours late Friday night, but that didn’t stop Keith ’08 and Rob ’12 from ... sick and (b) having to drive to Portland and back, an hour and a half each way, at 7am, after only three hours of sleep. (The latter was due to -
Blog / Events
Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.
next few hours were spent lost in the whirlwind of glorious endorphins ... " question - about dance! ^.^), but after nearly four hours of gallivanting ... . " So genuinely nice. For five hours last night, a few friends and I just -
Blog / Study Abroad
Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…
half hour home only to find that his wife wasn't there. (She came back two hours later, but for those horrible two hours he had no way of ... for hours under the collapsed remains of a building until someone came -
Blog / About Decisions
Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.
Hey all, I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while; I'm working on passing the aforementioned 18.022 exam. Final in 8 hours, you'll hear from me after that :) However, in the meantime: Congratulations to -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate
Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection process has been exponentially more demanding, rewarding, and yes -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...
change from day-to-day, hour-to-hour in fact – one moment, all you see is a ... , five 1-or-2 hour sessions later, I can show you somewhat close to what I ... in the wee hours is hard to come by around here. -- 3 Days before the -
Blog / MIT Life
Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.
Tuesday morning, I excused myself from de-insectifying MATLAB scripts for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into concrete sidewalk grids, swollen with rain delicately infused with the brine -
Blog / Events
Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...
the last time, I put my Brass Rat on facing up. In a couple of hours, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…
finishing the last of four exams on Monday, I had a pleasant four-hour lapse ... rooted in the acceptance of failure. There were open office hours ... . So I did. I went to extra recitation hours the next day. My back -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Campus Activities What to do while not learning.
challenge? Here are the rules: 1) You have one hour to drink a gallon of milk -
Blog / About Decisions
“Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!
I've got about an hour before I'm forced off these blogs temporarily so I thought I'd squeeze in one last entry before decisions came out. When you get your decisions it could be that the last thing you'd ever