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  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the ... on the event, they would have gone for Alex, who has Eric beaten by ... . Here's the aftermath of their meal, with Eric's friend Amat looking on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  .  He always eats his vegetables now. Try as I may, to put my kids on the ... parent's questions, I focused primarily on requirements, and not the fact ... fourth grader. I am reminded of an interview that I heard on public radio

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  Cheng Mountain - Fun Fact: The scenery in Kungfu Panda is based on this mountain ... traditional streets of Chengdu... are not statues! ;P Moving on... the real ... appointment. The landlord is kind of sassy. She owns both apartments on that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  jazz, I've been picking up some info on how this particular Boylston St ... morning, as one of the Starbucks-ers called 9-1-1 on a sleepy dude who was passed out on one of the couches. Turns out he was alive and well. And not

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  I came across a news article on a friend’s Facebook page the other day. The U.S. Senate congratulated MIT on its 150th anniversary in ... Barton Rogers, on April 10, 1861, the doors to a powerful new institution

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  she was 12, matriculated at MIT when she was 14, and now at 17 plans on ... on risky, long time horizon problems. With her fund IP Immortal, Laura plans on commercializing anti-aging research, bringing therapies out of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information ... application: On MyMIT, you can view your financial aid tracking. If you are ... package ASAP! Webcast event on Saturday! Watch your email for details! Await

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  MIT these days is pretty up on the latest social media, as is ... 'm friends with "MIT Engineers" on facebook, from whom I get the latest Tech ... "most read" on the side for a quick idea of what it's about). Then there

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  that was posted on the railings at Lobby 10 was probably meant to confound my picture-taking efforts. It was on the second floor, and getting a ... 's random page function, or the endless related links on most articles that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  could show the video to people like you on occasions like this... Sadly, after weeks of efforts, this was the reply I received on May 31, 2009: the ... she wrote on a blog entry I wrote almost 4 years ago: a while back, i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  . AND ONE THING I REALLY HATE IS USING SPACE ON MY COMPUTER - via you know ... those lines on Rhino. - and then 6 more hours making all those lines 3 ... make 3D models. Basically, we modeled a cafe on AutoCAD and sent it to a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  for the holidays at MIT. I'm on their mailing list, and this morning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a carabiner on a nail, displayed on the ledge around my room, hidden in a desk ... gone to MIT and gotten a job at the career fair! Also in attendance on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... a while, but within an hour of walking on campus I was learning how to use a power saw (“Put these goggles on, and keep your fingers away!”) We

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  Remember last week when US Representative Ed Markey criticized BP's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said, "When we heard the best minds were on the case, we expected MIT, not the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  in his garden on that Saturday afternoon in March was the fact that ... fact we're preparing for it on campus already, there is still the ... scheduled over MIT's spring break to allow current students to be on hand but

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  in that class! I'll be glad when it's 12:01 PM on Thursday, at which ... time in four months, I'll get to see my family. I'm holding on to that thought as tightly as I can." Kim D: "I'm on the 6th draft of my MEng

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pick My Halloween Costume! Mm, crowdsourcing.

  

  I feel like dressing up for Halloween this year, but I don't really feel like finding a new costume. Fortunately, I already have a bunch of things on my closet that I could use as costumes (blame the Assassins

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  ," said Boyd. Some say he's a genius. He doesn't think so, but plans on ... folks. But moving to another country? That's an adjustment on a whole ... on," Garay said. "It made me lonely, and I just closed up." In the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  One clear Thursday night long ago I was playing ultimate frisbee on ... , and the most famous alto soloist, Charlie Parker, wasn't on the list. I ... music elements to jazz--or vice versa, depending on your point of view. I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009