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  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  with your problem sets for the week (or even if you aren't...) and are ... . Here's what I wore (posing with Emily '10): Anyhow, we started off the evening with delicious hors d'oeuvres in our chapter room, ranging from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  rank it up there with the Black-Scholes model. (don't know what that is ... 'll be with you 'til we die!". Also my personal favorite: [translated ... ]'" Unfortunately I had to answer that last one with "Easy Mac" =( After about an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  , with some "day in the life"s, similar to others that have been done in ... where I grew up! I decided to start the trip early and hang out with the ... Day weekend. [SIDEBAR: for those that aren't familiar with the great

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  town for the ceremonies, turned to me with their eyebrows raised six ... I received the NBM two years ago, I spent just about all my time with ... friends about how my school wasn't going to stick me with a random roommate

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  As of noon today, I am officially done with my first year at MIT. I ... . Before I take off on Saturday, though, I have to deal with what I think has ... backpack (laptop, Starship Troopers, iPod), with a little space leftover in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  -packed with events like Senior Ball and Burton-Conner's dinner cruise, then this ... said, I present you with pictures from the pit lighting and mud wrestling ... ovens in the Haus with massive amounts of baking pie. Our housemasters

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  has an intense love-hate relationship with four-day weekends. On one ... can go home, enjoy Boston, catch up with friends, and hey, maybe even ... many people with tuberculosis and AIDS. At the conference, his talk was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  in the Alpha Chi Omega (AXO) sorority house with my host, who was also ... dinner with the Society of Women Engineers, junk food at the academic, athletic, and activity fairs, etc. etc. etc. Each CPW-er did get a card with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  pipes hanging from the ceiling, when my son looked over with a smile and ... Everywhere we went during CPW, we were regaled with incredible stories: Donald Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  've declared a major! I decided on 2A, Mechanical Engineering with a ... 've realized that I really like having the skills to come up with an idea and ... plain white folder with the Hasbro logo stamped on the front. I opened

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  experiences with untold numbers of people. Maybe I can even give them some ... , sort of. Every decision you’ll make here carries with it an associated ... ’t do particularly well in any of them. I ended up with a 3.9/5.0 semester

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few ... " piece was replaced with a mock-up of a Campus Police officer. If you look ... street, however, when I noticed that something strange was going on with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  for set me up with a beautiful apartment in the Cite Universitaire in ... research institute with a specialization in cancer. I hadn't worked much in a ... extracted from young woman patients with breast cancer. I was not at all

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  observatory. It was here that Foucault experimented with his pendulum to show ... photography, and the list goes on with names such as Laplace and Lavoisier ... summer working with a really dedicated mentor and a great team of other top

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  selection process. As with MIT admissions, I always leave selection committee ... many other factors that we consider, including overlap with current bloggers of class year, residence, and activities. With the sad stuff out of

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  'm here in Germany, meeting up with tons of MIT interns while staying at ... flatbread, and it comes topped with three tons of cabbage and tomatoes and ... sandwich. What's not to love? I've already met with several MIT interns and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  to find Terminal E, and jet lagged. By that night, I was bouncing with ... peanut butter ice cream with eleven toppings I ate at the dorm probably ... -waffle square dorm”... because who needs a pineapple under the sea with a

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  -clogging breakfast. Yum. 9:15 AM: Grabbed a cup of tea with Minh from the Lobby 7 ... : Stood in Killian Court and played with my camera’s panoramic setting, the ... -1:00 PM: Ate lunch with Dr. Ray Winquist, the Vice President of Vertex

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  halfway done with my Junior year, there are only 2 weeks left until Final ... later.) So, I bit my nails with the knowledge that if I got wait-listed or ... mailbox with my heart pounding the whole time. A week passed, and so did the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  the rain. So, after a few minutes of brainstorming, we came up with this ... experimented with three different bras throughout the day to find one that made ... of gender reassignment therapy. I finished off the look with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006