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  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  sorted on the tools table, but here and there is a drill, a crescent wrench ... charge of organizing all of the projects and events that have gone on this ... everywhere. Many of these are "early returns"—desperate to get on campus

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle at the intersection of Route 2 and Route 3, on Memorial Drive by the BU ... safely on the off-road bike path until I began to approach the circle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  flowers, all had adoring expressions on her faces – and when they were done ... House kitchen, to work on my 18.03 (Differential Equations) problem set. 4 ... . Get up, turn it off, pull out laptop, and work on reports for the Public

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  garment bag around to medical school interviews. (I actually got that bag on ... failed for 21 times (...I succeeded on the 22nd try) I guess I don't have ... !!! Obviously, I was exhilarated when I discovered the grade on my webSIS (online

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  letter on your behalf. Please recognize that teachers are very busy ... approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair and running ... well on all the tests. We find that the best recommendations are written

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  transcript follows] Me: I think I'm taking intro class on programming in C ... 't be that bad - Linda: One kid stepped on his laptop so he wouldn't have ... skipping town on frigid New England winters and frigid academics while I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  . Li notwithstanding, I ended up becoming the chef on Saturdays at pika ... seafaring (riverfaring?) vessels on the Charles, three bread machines, a ... actually a bunch of beets. I swear, I must have been absent on the day in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch ... on the busiest river in Boston during the busiest hours of the busiest ... . (No kidding.) 3.Launch rafts onto the Charles River around 6 pm on July

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about ... the surface or "bloom," causing it to take on a whitish sheen or oily texture. (Hence the film you might find on last year's Christmas candy.) "It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... player on the left in this photo:</p> <p><img src="http ... also on the new football team as well, and gave up his halftime break to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  up as a pencil on the Entries page it was probably red-flagged by half ... bring the wrath of higher-ups raining down on the admissions office again ... fraternities...how many boys choose not to join one and what do they miss out on

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  runs out the door* *begins epic journey on bike across campus (~1.5 miles ... blogs, at CPW, on Facebook...etc., and as you make your final decisions ... couple of weeks I set foot on campus, I've been involved with the SAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  Matt mentioned on the page had passed, oops =/), and from the standpoint ... (towards the end of the camp, the counselors try to do 30 distinct proofs on ... from the head coach on the third day of training - "Do you think you are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  suggested that I should write a book on college applications. Although I ... help you get a new perspective on the application process. I don't expect ... application. On a more personal note, throughout the admissions process last

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  can access the internet: 1. The Turkish internet cafe on the corner ... has been shut off because you looked up Dan Quayle on Wikipedia!" Then I ... 10 minute walk from my house. They advertise free wireless LAN on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  extracurricular activity or two, plus a UROP, and still graduate on time and happy ... inclined to waste time on the internet. A blatant plug for cheerleading An ... 've been on the squad. Join the cheerleading squad! It's fun! :D HASS

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT ... : "What made you decide on MIT in the first place, and what are the major ... come to MIT?and...how stressful does it get on an average day? thanks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  rejection and sexism. I am just plain moving on people. Here we go. This week ... , right? I don't think I'm going crazy. On Monday I had my first shift on ... allowed to discuss calls we've been on. That won't be hard- there weren

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  become so famous due to the sheer concentration of bloggers on the floor ... . "We want to go to MIT?" "So do lots of people!" On that topic, I feel like the time has officially come for Laura's Entry on Unsolicitied

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , I've been on an AWARD TOUR WITH MOHAMMED MY MAN. And everywhere I go, you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... of your essay. Avoid slang. Use "street cred" on your own time. If

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005