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  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack Something, following the proper etiquette (Hacker's Code of Ethics) which is: Be Safe – Your safety, the safety of others, and the safety of anyone

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and I ... on admitting students from the wait list. However, this year, we saw an ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter - besides the multi-dozen dollar salary, and the luxurious corner office dorm room, and the stubborn ExpressionEngine blogging platform with which I am

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  of Those Times of the semester) the French House social chair, Emma '14, sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The subject was "Emergency Morale Booster Night" and the content was: - Salut la maison! I hope

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  Finally back on the blogs, and it feels so good! (I'd normally start ... demanding. I think I might have found myself running on the MIT treadmill a ... understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  realized my mistake and erased the year, I realized that 2008 was three years ago. People born on 18 August 2008 are walking and talking all over the globe. It was a terrifying moment. Feeling old got me thinking about the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  've been listening to this summer, but I quickly realized (as the list ... the fact that I do listen to a lot of jazz, classical and instrumental ... are good for you). Also, before I get to the list, a disclaimer: R

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  There are no undergraduate classes here at MIT over the summer. Hopefully you already knew that, or at the very least figured it out from all the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  . So at CPW, I visited the crew and TKD info booths, and during ... the Swim Test...crew isn't happening anytime soon. Luckily, the other half of the grand plan is moving fast on track. Two weeks ago, the MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  pretty majestic! (she's the girl in the picture) Which got me thinking ... 's not necessary. Please include: where you took the picture. affiliation ... interesting you would like to say about yourself/where you live/what's in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  for "Crew of the Week" and you can all help our crew team be recognized by going here and voting on the right hand side. This site is a little ... . With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has ... has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  Hello! I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on the ... freshman admission this year. As you can see on the admissions statistics ... , it is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  Happy new year everyone! I'm hanging out at my sister and brother-in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who always seem surprised when they find out, Michigan is on the EASTERN time

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  MIT gives students the month of January off, it's something they call the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget ... !!!] [Also know that this is the product of a winter break quasi-flame war. See

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing that leaps to ... impossible not to notice the tremendous amount of resources that MIT is pouring ... about one of the most well-known classes focusing on international

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  Believe it or not, this is not a post about how the bloggers are ... heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to ... shelter for the southern Californians here at MIT, I think we can agree that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  . I want to put up an entry highlighting the various awesome things that MIT students (being, ourselves, awesome) do for the summer. So if you ... prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things ... the real killer, all the exams for the entire year happen during a 2-3 week period in the Easter term (there are 3 terms: Michaelmas, Lent, and

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008