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  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  Here's what I will see every Monday, Friday, Saturday, and many Wednesdays for the next 4 months... (Sorry for the bad photo; I only had my camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  with history, and I want to get back and see the 99% of the sights that I missed during our 36-hour stay. I was personally rooting for France, but I ... guy. What a strange way to end your professional career, I think. Since

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you admitted folks are excited! I just got back from an amazing week in Scandinavia and I think it's time for a little update. Forgive me, though, for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Rome! Gelato, Saint Peter's Basilica, and Vespas for an entire week.

  

  In about 6 hours, I'll be boarding a plane and going to... ROME! Seeing as I haven't packed or exchanged money yet, this blog entry will have to stay short but look out for entries live from the capitol of the

  • by Bryan
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Moment of Truth

  

  Decisions are in the mail and ready to be viewed online. I'm really excited myself, and I've known my decision for a year and a half. =) Best of luck to everyone!

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  While we're still quite busy with selection, tomorrow (Friday) I ... be tomorrow (Friday) at from 5-7pm in Stata Center room 32-155. I know ... . And since I'll be sequestered with applications throughout the weekend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for releasing RA decisions online this year. I had a meeting with our tech peeps ... juncture. I'm hesitant to post this because I don't want to get your hopes up

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  MIT. I was gonna blog about classes, but that can wait until tomorrow ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for ... our dorm's five Medlinks while I stood around shouting obscenities as I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Superbowl Discuss.

  

  I am currently a bit overwhelmed with work & application reading, but I'll return next week with the next Q&A and other new content. In the meantime... Superbowl: discuss. Who are you pulling for? Who

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  Soon I'll be posting some photos and such from the hunt, but for now I'll leave you with some of the funny quotes from the weekend. Also, this week, I'll be highlighting some of the puzzles from the hunt. The

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only ... , since I had one on Friday afternoon and the other is Thursday morning ... gorgeous formula sheet. Instead, I have been struggling with my inner

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  I can't believe it. It's been a whole year. An entire year. They ... . I hung around the Infinite today and caught Ben and Matt as they were ... Matt's got his characteristic tie for selection period! I figured I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1 AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  with them. I decided to take advantage of this, so after sending my parents and sister back home (this weekend was Family Weekend, but I ... ), I headed across campus to the bookstore. All of these are highly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the ... will be the questions that I answer first.   Finally (for this

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly hosing. So I will post about what I did this week - a sort of "sample week ... inconvenient with everything else that I had to do. -9.29 (Intro to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  Infinite, I heard a loud boom coming from Lobby 10. Upon closer inspection, I ... and Technology Initiatives has been giving out free food. While I was ... " over in Sloan but I won't make it there in time. A later passage down

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Welcome Back, Kotter year #3 begins.

  

  Here goes year #3 at the Institute. On my plate this term: BE.310: Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics BE.370: Quantitative Physiology I ... -Fluids Engineering I 21F.703: Spanish III To be continued...

  • by Bryan
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  job, I am frequently asked to tell various chapters of my life story. Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays ... . From Kindergarten through 8th grade, I attended a small Catholic school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004