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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  published two books on West African music. It's also RIDICULOUSLY fun. Imagine banging on a drum with a stick. Now bang on your imaginary drum with ... other people, and really getting into the groove - but mostly the banging-on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  bread. 2.Read Feynman. 3.Written this list. On second thought, make that ... rolls, Windows 98, and messily penciled sonatas of elementary algebra on ... mean, I interject on behalf of you since you can't leave a comment on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... ; according to a local, lol). Basically, they're these dual hills on the ... and the Bay during the day, and an amazing night view after sunset. On

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... troubling affliction, particularly on long international plane trips and also on cross-country road trips. I spent the last week driving from Boston

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  cumin and pepper, and place chicken legs, skin down, on the oil to pan ... . When the onion begins to take on a golden shade, add water to the skillet ... lid on skillet, and allow to steam until almost all the water has

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  persistent fans (why else would they offer me such irresistible deals on ... 3948394 mispronunciations of my name later, CPW strapped on its private jet ... inflicted a violent wrath of carnage on our anemic sleep schedules. Let it be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on ... section and saw a giant article on the MIT men's basketball team, and guard ... , but instead plans on playing professional basketball, probably in Europe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  alarm clock and slept until my cat jumped on my chest which was around 1 ... emails and watched last night's Colbert Report on my laptop in my underwear ... Victoria's Secret Collegiate Pink Poll and the concerted effort on the part

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  blog entry about MIT Medical: an inside look on their experience with MIT ... incoming freshmen and their parents are working on their insurance plans for ... for a single student. Last August, my family elected to not put me on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  once. On the day of the final, I made plans with my friend Martin to meet him and his family to watch the game. On my way to meet them, I passed ... on the metro, but didn't take it all the way home. That would be silly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  they keep the licences. Installing MATLAB on your personal computer ... enough, I had a big problem on my Dell where the installer crashed every ... couldn't sever these ties that bind. So in the end, life went on. I lived

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  by Donald Guy’s Mom Almost exactly one year ago, on a Junior ... Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... hole); CSAIL presentations on developing new microprocessors and robots

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 739 applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor ... measures i.e. Hot in Herre on the acoustic guitar), to a tea party, to a ... for YEARS, I swear. A note on that back wall: Gillian and I couldn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  studying, I'm sitting on The Angela Monster's bed with May and Liz '11 and ... . (I spent the earlier part of the evening on Burton Two- sometimes ... count the number of days left on the number of pectoral abdominal (SORRY

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian ... few weeks ago on the ways form logistics affect retirement savings Read

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  You'll get another new entry today as I work on my 20 page paper. But ... alarm on weekends. Oh, dear. So, I awoke with a jerk at 8:30 AM yesterday ... at 10 AM on Saturday morning. Unlike my usual Tuesday and Thursday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  plural, I think, but no one asks me), so here are two pictures I took on my way to class this morning. (Click on the picture to see the glorious ... outside Baker House, one of the dorms on Dorm Row. I don't know why there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter ... -so-secret crush on Pine, the mail client that's used on Athena. I used to only use ... . On Monday, we had to submit the primary themes for our theme

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  that dead guy having Veronica's name written on his hand?! Was Veronica ... 's actually the second question on everybody's mind. The first one is "what are ... now. The real reason I'm writing about this is because it's on my mind

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005