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  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday ... , you have my permission to put down your AP study books and take a look. As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Every year, MIT brings to campus a national act to headline a big ... Concert. Here is a somewhat complete list of the history of MIT Spring ... spring for nearly half a century, the residents of MIT's Senior Haus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center convenience store for a pb&j bagel sandwich because we had a hard track ... carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  , Sheesha: And this is proof positive why I would rather have a cat than a ... : do be sure that if you have a flight at Logan at 6:45pm that you leave ... home on a random weekend like this. I go home for Thanksgiving, Christmas

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  ’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for ... charge until I gave the plug a little jiggle. The odd thing was that I was ... during those five minutes, but not even a jiggle could resuscitate its

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and not something that can be decided on a whim. So when I tell you

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  me is the fact that the granddaughter of a Japanese rice farmer can fit so well within a career that is still considered to be male ... seats in Congress, lead only 15 Fortune 500 companies, and hold a mere 3

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  ; however, we have a few upperclassmen spots that are open for the fall, and if you feel you can make a compelling case for your inclusion among ... images into your posts to make them interesting. To be considered for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an ... TO CHICAGO RAWR RAWR RAWR.) There's a discussion topic called "Advice ... want to throw a heavy glass object every time I see it, which is often

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  the fifth day (fifth? What day is it?? Is it really Thursday???) in a row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break ... answering questions and debunking myths. But I'm a senior this year, and after

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  back after Thanksgiving break. And somehow with three problem sets and a ... considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house, the commotion was a welcome change and a nice bend toward normalcy for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... know what's going on and throws a more difficult curriculum at you ... . Last year I thought it was hilarious because each of my classes had a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... side of the keyboard; the A key, however, is another story entirely. It ... just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  not unduly harsh. The past week or so a dull thudding began at 8am sharp ... days ago a bunch of kids pulled down a big branch from the tree outside ... more than a spattering of sawdust. So these were the events leading up to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  So. I know a lot of you reading this are Americans, which means that the word "football" means a sport played neither with feet nor anything resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  always enjoy a good laugh, March 15th was definitely not a laughing day for ... 't gotten in and spent quite a while fairly upset. Thousands of applicants whittled down by 90%, a new class decided, and now all sorts of changes are

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  range of people, with a similarly broad array of interests, passions, and ... appreciated until a few days ago - namely, how MIT ends up attracting some very hilarious people. As Exhibit A of this theory, I'd like to present you with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  the rest of your life, which for a lot of people, is perfectly ... has a bookstore, most named something like this: ~> The Cornell ... an enigma wrapped in a riddle. For one, it's housed in multiple

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is generally well-liked. I mean, it's a lecture hall, it's hard to love a lecture hall, but 10-250 is very put-up-with-able. A little over a month ago an

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008