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  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  an event density so high, it's like a neutron star of awesome! There ... food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry ... anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a ... about the answers. My advice to a high school sophomore or junior considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a ... blocked from memory. Any sleep I lost was never found; TGIF took on a whole new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  've had a lot to do and thus unsurprisingly, I've kept pretty busy. Yes ... flier miles would've been a good idea.) I spent the last week and a half ... see MIT for the first time as a real place and not just a picture in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist ... his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  until Thursday, May 21. It is the absolute last day I can accept a thesis ... thesis. Have a great day! [Course Administrator] As of right now, I have ... and Pixel Overflow, Readout Noise, A/D Converter Nonlinearity

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM ... . As you begin having more questions about life at MIT as a freshman, and ... . So, what does this "NBM" include? Among other things:A cover letter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  might know from the handy banner above, I am a Course 4 (Architecture ... Planning) and really want to pursue a minor but probably won't due to time ... requires, after six core subjects, a choice of one of five concentrations

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... approaches zero. Recent themes of mine have been the 250% Vitamin A Study Break ... one. Once, I also took a study break from studying biology by studying

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview. So now that all the interview reports are being filed, it's a good time ... would be the point exactly? Your interview report shouldn't be just a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  A little bit ago, a prospective student wanted some insight on what a typical day is like for an MIT student. Although that's a very good question ... computing to practicing for the upcoming performance of A Midsummer Night

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... time riding in a group, and I'm still a pretty novice cycler. ... About ... cream. A bit afterwards, I began to realize we had gone pretty far and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  a MIT frosh? You can always spam However you want But just remember ... ends Let's celebrate Remember a year in chain email spam Remember the ... refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  the last problem sets I will ever do as a freshman, which is a pretty ... novel) and, of course, finals. Easier said than done? Yeah, just a little ... forward to this weekend. Earlier tonight, a handful of friends and I went to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  On Tuesday night, Diana '08 baked a cake. Since she borrowed a bunch ... me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus ... automatically prints what's called a "header page" before all of your stuff. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry session. We built a loft for James '11, and a table for each of us. Okay, so ... wanted a small table to put in my room, but Rick decided to go all out, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I ... was convinced that joining a sorority was not the way to go. Anyway, my ... in the vein of bashing sororities indiscriminately, I wanted a valid

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  (I have a lot more unfinished posts on their way - as well as answers ... here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  rain. Gotta love a barbecue. Mmmm, polish sausage and Star Market ... plastic balls on you. And you. And you and you and you. Yeah, that's a lot ... your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at ... students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The event officially began

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007