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Blog / Personal Travel
Spring Break! A little guessing game.
I have to travel east from Boston to get there. ... At approximately 9.30 pm on Thursday night, Spring Break will begin. I leave for (blank) on Saturday. Anyone want to guess where I'm going -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square
: Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free ... found this bookstore before I left MIT. In addition to a large fiction ... physics books, but as she dryly noted, it added up to less than a typical -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…
to my favorite MIT band, Rolltreppe. I've been living under a rock ... , is about to graduate with a course 6 degree, numerous musical accolades ... (here is a subset of the group at Dylan's Emerson recital): To crazy -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.
things that come to mind when we think of a "good job," for example, in comparison to what comes to the mind of a French student. We consider these ... often dangerous -- a stark contrast to the American idea of them being -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Forum for Admitted Students
Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2014! We feel like we already know you, but feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to ... MIT will live in a day or two. -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Come to AXO Lip Sync! Come to AXO Lip Sync tonight to see some of your friends... "remember when????"
talents? Do you long for opportunities to support a good cause while being entertained? If you answered yes to any or all of the questions above, buy a ... Do you want to relive your favorite pop culture moment? Do you enjoy -
Blog / Events
A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.
that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously ... have anything to do with Thanksgiving? Well, okay, a few things you ... half of these have to be Kosher. The result is a weekend extravaganza of -
Blog / MIT Life
25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.
come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... itself. "Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note ... don't necessarily like. This tends to disappoint a lot of people. 12. If -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam
remember going from trying to knit a simple square to designing intricate ... started measuring time in units of how long it took me to knit a headband ... watch. I picked up needles again to help me through this hell of a year -
Blog / Admissions
USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.
's hardest problems: In a mathematical competition, 6 problems were posed to ... world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in ... competing countries participated. Contestants attempt to solve 6 math problems -
Blog / Life after MIT
Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school
studying, switching from mechanical engineering to a completely different ... came to MIT, my plan was to study EECS, start a video game company, and ... me more than anything was to take risks. It was definitely a risk to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life
challenging problems to complete. It really has helped me a lot for Real ... is a whole new methodology to try and master this semester. Who knew ... packed, I tend to really enjoy the weekends. Luckily, I have a girlfriend -
Blog / Admissions
A few quick answers The skinny.
Selection has been busy enough that I haven't had time to do a full Questions Omnibus, I do have enough time to steal an idea from Ben and quickly answer a few common questions... ------------------------------------- So -
Blog / Personal Travel
Road Trip—sort of.
, and we took a mini-trip to Santa Cruz, Capitola, Monterey, and ... call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I spent most of the ride falling victim to a nasty bout of motion sickness -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)
Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to Yahoo Yellow Pages). Today, Marilee gave us a day off to rest and catch up on chores, etc. It was nice to have a day at home, though I used the -
Blog / Hacks
A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.
adopt exponential notation to denote level of friendship. I.e. A "friend ... example: "I was going to go to that convention with my friend, but a lot of ... I don't have a pair of cat ears to wear." See? Isn't that so much -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP
EDIT: I encourage everyone who connects with this comic even a little bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring of advice from a wide variety of students and alumni and brings up a -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Snowpeople & a hammershark more post-blizzard sights around campus --
A couple days after the blizzard, I walked around campus and took ... : -- <3! (full credit to whoever built these!) -- P.S. I'm currently scrambling to finish the Sketchbook Project (introduced in this post), and this -
Blog / MIT Life
I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?
of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk ... , but I did =) Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the event, BUT I will be at a formal on the 33rd floor of a building in downtown