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  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... awkward scenes that leave you squirming in your seat. Awkward situations at MIT arise from accidentally hitting on your TA or forgetting the name of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  revealing about our culture that these events stand out in tandem to me, but ... remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... the second, I was newly done with high school, and better able to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the ... penny. To get their souls back, they would have to complete his course of ... get a chance to take part in next year's Hunt. I'm hopeful that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  about what to get. For one thing, I had no idea what skirt/dress size I ... East, on the wall next to her: And here she is again, getting fed an ... impossible to get a flash photo of me with my eyes open. This was the fourth

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  students passed away. James E. Roberts Sr. was known as "Big Jimmy" to ... Jimmy memories. Two stories come to mind to exemplify what Big Jimmy meant to me. The first was freshman year. I had a crush on a sophomore on my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  Final Presentation. Everything you need to know lives on this site ... !']If you weren't able to secure a ticket—worry not:[/annotation] there's a ... Kayode D. '27, who are posting their live reactions to the whole event

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your ... is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  smarter than some other ones we've come across, so we could use your support. With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a ... . Budget cuts around the country may be forcing a lot of colleges to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  : elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... 've taken to working on a little mural on my door whenever a pset makes my ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... are. People are more willing to help you than you think they are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday ... Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line with a large table awaiting us. It was a great opportunity to catch up on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  ? How about this...whoever gives me the best costume suggestion gets to ... celebrations in New York City. I returned to Boston last Sunday (which happened to be my birthday), and what do you know? My train broke down! I spent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  stressful competition to get into an elite school is harming young people ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... closer to Friday's expected mail date. Also, today's Boston Globe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Stop You're hurting the wrong people.

  

  To the person who keeps posting hurtful things to my blog and to Matt's, pretending to be "YJ" and others, please stop. It's one thing to mess with me ... - they've done nothing to you. Thanks.

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  We encourage students to take a gap year to explore and grow. Every year we have a number of students apply to MIT after a gap year and more students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap
• Blog / MIT Life

  We’re Bringing What Back? I don't think so.

  

  up this morning excited to verify the existence of this thing you call ... stop telling malicious lies. Thank you. Yours, JKim

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  , and still didn't get through all the companies I wanted to talk to. Also ... The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT-and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  , Congratulations on completing your first year at MIT! It has been a tough year ... be rectified continued for a number of days, and due to finals and ... Campus representation, and after much deliberation, we have decided to add

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HASS) Philip Khoury, to help us talk about and address the quality

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005