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  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  doing. Sam '07 wrote a nice entry about this experience here. This year Burton-Conner has been fairly lucky. As a dorm we're only had about 5 fire alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand, I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  , each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a chapel, a dean, and a choir. According to Anglican tradition, there should ... everyone else sings Sunday and at least one other day. A good choir is a

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of ... . Ooooh. But the magic wears off after a couple weeks, to be honest, and soon "free food" isn't a good enough reason to walk across campus for a 2

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  M.I.T. Energy Club, which was founded in 2004 by a few grad students discussing energy over beers at a campus bar. Today it has 600-plus members who ... .I.T. students and faculty, and “fact-based analysis,” including a trip to Saudi

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  this summer: "Devin (another Spectrum '07) and I have been reading A LOT about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open ... school sophomores around, I'm writing a blog post. All right, so that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if you’re not the punter. My name is Lucy and I’m a junior ... students. It’s been a week since we came and classes are starting

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... and learn. If the Infinite is crowded, consider the center line a ... line a broken yellow line. Merge into oncoming traffic only if you need

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... ’s only all-female dormitory. MIT women choose to live here for a variety of ... Admissions has a really great picture of McCormick: (from Admission

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  it out -- it's a great opportunity to meet some potential future ... happen later. See your MyMIT portal for a list of locations and times for all of the Admitted Students Parties. Today, I'd like to highlight a few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a ... lectures at MIT. MIT World has been in operation since 2001 and today has a ... source of unmediated content reflects a wide range of ideas that are

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with ... topics are compared and contrasted with characteristics of a U.S. city ... . While in Scandinavia last spring break, a few of us met up with the 11

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  The other day I was walking back to Next House when a leaf literally hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the ... a painful metaphor for my life right now. (Sometimes, a leaf isn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a class, it gets recorded on your transcript merely as a "P". If you get a D ... if you never took the class. This is a really good system, for several

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  IBM/Lenovo merger for class. It was a team project on mergers as a whole, with each of us choosing a merger case and exploring its respective ... finish a few pages for Friday, along with studying a bit for my (last

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it ... . In other words, if we feel that a mid-year report is needed to make a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  )! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where ... an externship, some will learn a language, some will do research, some will build a Stirling Engine, among the many options. A couple IAP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  studied extrasolar planets (a planet outside of our solar system), which I'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the ... equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  found a table cloth! And salt and pepper shakers!" Meanwhile, I was putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of the activity in my neck of the woods. But first, a pic of my hallmate, Deirdre '08, that I took a while back for an entry that never happened. One

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005