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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  impressed by Zach, and I got to eat a lot of tasty hot dogs. Michelle stole ... one person. So, a challenge to all you pre-frosh during CPW, let's get ... not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... recreations, and is made possible by the fact that Boston is a very safe place ... I used to wander there. In the middle of the city. Late at night. By

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so ... and a half hours in the pouring rain to lose a field hockey game. Bleh ... , just to wrap up a few loose ends from my last couple of entries: A lot

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

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  average value of the top 500 companies rose by a factor of six. Two commonly used indexes of chief executive compensation show close to a proportional ... explained by increases in the value of the stock market. Viewed as a whole

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  Now that CPW is behind us, I am beginning to return to my life as a ... to get back to one of my favorite hobbies, movies. Just as I got ready to fire up the Yamaha YHT-160 (5.1 channel A/V Home Theater receiver

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  participate can get a copy of a small slip of paper, about the size of an index ... strive to: - provide a safe space for the MIT LBGTQ community, including ... has a big collection of those informative booklets for anyone to take

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... was hilarious. (My A key is sticking again. Maybe I should find a way to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  , typically a Google Doc, to a webpage that gets served on the hunt website ... meeting was the overarching timeline to get the hunt written. We selected by ... proposals would be cut to a shortlist of at most five proposals by approval

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  or modifications due to a disability, please notify the physical ... mine) According to our records, you have not completed the General ... successful completion of the swim test (or beginning swimming class) and a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  me sprawled a miniature metropolis of snack foods inspired by the great ... Ginger Rogers instead of actual clues, (4) a PDF that appeared to be blank, (5) a board game given to all the teams . . . without instructions

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  for those who aren’t sure where to get started. There’s also a good blog post by Anna H. ‘14 called How to get a UROP that goes further into ... 's exactly what it sounds like. Undergrads get to work with professors, Ph

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  . There are a lot of resources here to help you get the support you need so ... Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It ... me and the two other news editors to make sure that you get your bi

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  has not only <a href="http://web.mit.edu/varf-ball/www/index.html" _cke_saved_href="http://web.mit.edu/varf-ball/www/index.html">a ... this was a time when they had bake sales and sub sandwich sales to make

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  by reviews-- make sure they have a lot of them, and maybe check to see ... backpacking.    Disclaimer: I am but a wee freshman, and thanks to COVID ... ’t die. I tried to take steps that would make getting murdered less

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  by Kaiser Permanente. 9:45 a.m. Opening Ceremony in Sharon Meadow. 10 ... fundraising: This is a very important issue to me so I have set an ambitious fundraising goal. I want to do as much as I can to make a difference in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small ... spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a ... For $35 to $250 per square centimeter, you can have your name written

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program where high school students can come to campus to take courses and live in the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to ... , molded culture all over the world. The show, a collaborative effort by ... having a book signing to promote his latest book "I Hope They Serve Beer In

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of ... best friends and I had a pact: go to Stanford. We famously donned

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  around the corner. (Funny I say that even though Boston had a heat index of 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010 ... to blog a little more than a year ago I wrote the following: My blog

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006