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  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up ... down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer ... hacker types. Don't look at me, I live on West Campus. Oh, but my life has

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  slept for 30.5 hours (and will probably sleep at least 10 tonight), cheered at a (VERY RAINY) football game, watched a (VERY ROWDY!) game of Beirut, worked on graduate school applications, gone out to dinner at CPK

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  -dollar fall retreat at a cabin in New Hampshire with the dorm, both of which ... pretty well. In general, I've done fairly well at humanities classes at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  hard math is sometimes. So Thursday night, at the house, a lot of the ... on their math homework. (8 pm) I went to sleep at 4 am, and I still ... -nighter. Instead, I just woke up at 7 am to finish the problem. Here's the problem

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  as MIT Student Juggling Origamit, "Paperfolding at MIT" LBGT ... depressing. DormCon sponsored an area at which you threw something into ... Unfortunately, at 12:40 PM we noticed that Ian Brelinsky was no longer alive

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Line, which hits the Red Line at South Station. These pictures ... '07 (note the blue shirt) insisted on stopping at Dunkin Donuts and ... UROPed at MIT this summer, so he can afford the price. Our location

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  [I'm at MIT now, but wrote this entry earlier today while still ... to the post office, driving past my old school, seeing my dad at work ... packing. I also IMed some people I'll be seeing tonight at East Campus. So

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  ?) Speaking of Andy Roddick, at the beginning of August, my roommate, Anna, came ... at the end of the game as the players were exiting the courts ... tennis at MIT, you have plenty of opportunities. There's a tennis gym class

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... Fondazione Giuseppe Verdi, was established at the turn of the century to ... well as a long-time architecture professor at Milan's Brera Fine Arts

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... dance last semester when the team hosted a competition at MIT. Teams from all over the country were at MIT dressed in tuxedos and colorful dresses

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  beneath a body of water, but at this point it's so routine that most ... at fifty kilometers, it's the second-longest rail tunnel in the world ... leaving Paris, I had dinner at Terminus Nord, a really delicious place

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award at ISEF 2003 =) There was a ... terrific homeschooled students at MIT -- and I'd bet that people could not ... at the Broad Institute!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  At 3:08pm today, we completed the preparation of the decision mailing, and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I ... presenter at a national admissions conference in the fall, where I'll try

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  -Help portion of your financial aid, at least at MIT) while at the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  discovering and applying knowledge for the benefit of society remains at the ... over the Institute. The homework ("problem sets") at MIT is designed to ... MIT community. Initiative. Opportunities abound at MIT, but they must be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  .mit.edu/classes/1997/miamireunion.html At MIT, we don't just have 5n year reunions ... fantastic. We stayed at the Venetian, perhaps only second to the Bellagio in ... , clubbing at some of Vegas' most fashionable nightspots, and just hanging out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  , including the Tremulant concert at TT the Bear's Place (one of the many, many ... in Copley Square, and even a party at my own house. Ultimately, though, I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... at my high school that only varsity athletes could join. I remember ... adept at sniffing out the applications that lack substance. In short, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  hard together, harder than we think at any other time of the year ... 2 fun is like how Big Game "fun" is like the "fun" at this school ... to make the numbers add up right in many different ways at the same

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  of a similar plan being implemented at MIT. Life has often felt surreal ... Denisse again. Then I called my partner at the time. I started worrying ... , looking out of my giant window at Briggs field and Simmons. It felt odd to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020