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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... Interlocking Stabilized Soil Bricks. Basically, it's a machine that applies some ... to make a strong brick using pressure instead of heat. Also, the bricks

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long ... ) test getting a head start on my 18.700 (linear algebra) problem set ... from last year I never had time to post :) a look at MIT's tunnels

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  how it took place, or if it had anything to do with me becoming a senior ... let me tell you, it wasn't pretty. Like a preteen boy with more bacne ... , began exercising on a daily basis, and even quit pulling the pigtails of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  2 Kittens from mysterious origins came into my life about a month ago. They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a ... sure just a semester ago that I could never take care of an animal and a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  entirely tuned out my surroundings when a thirty-something-ish man steps over ... shoes... BUT. However. There comes a point when you have not slept all ... him into a well.* (Why yes! I did watch 300 over Thanksgiving. My

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself ... quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a ... yearbook, running a Student Council errand, or teaching SAT classes at night

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the ... to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full ... we have enough information to make a decision. If we need further

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  this: Mr. Jackson [was] a father figure to generations of young men in ... | November 4, 2007 A strange thing happened Oct. 19 at MIT's Delta Kappa ... kitchen where John Jackson had cooked for half a century suddenly went out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  Board Conference with a gazillion other admissions professionals. Things ... blogging more frequently in November. In the meantime, here are a couple of links to tide you over: First, The Human Factor is a video that MIT has

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  Despite what I said last time, I did manage to snap a couple of ... food all weekend. There was a mix-up with our food order- we were ... event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since ... wouldn’t make too much of a difference – we’d share the ... hours (I arrived at 7, but was supposed to arrive at 1) because we had a

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  , and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a ... 's just a bad idea. MIT considers a lot more than that, so don't play that game. It's not a good way to spend your time. Go have some fun. Enjoy the

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a ... behalf of all of us, here's a big public thanks to them.) So this is just a quick entry to let you all know that everyone's portlet has been

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  , absolutely necessary Saturday, 2 PM - I wake up. Come on, there was a party ... there involved minimal effort. If I could cross campus for a Baker party the Friday before, then skipping out on this would only be a sign of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please ... application component, such as a transcript or teacher evaluation, now is a good ... are available (if you're on a trimester system, we probably already have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  those of you interested in keeping a running tally, we're up to 15.) Saturday night, it was #88: Try a Bartley's One-of-a-Kind Burger. That ... . (The menu said, "Get a rise out of this!" Who could resist that?!) Bleu

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey, do you want a ride? It's almost free!" ME: "Well, no, I'm actually only ... a certain group on thefacebook. And then I realized that thefacebook

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  On Thursday, I attended Teatro ZinZanni, "a bewitching evening of ... live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of ... practically gave it a standing ovation) but the dessert was a disappointment

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There is a free-food at mit dot edu mailing list, just ... that pretty much everybody is bilingual. No, really. A lot of people just ... it around the house. Also, a lot of upperclassmen are interested in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006