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  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test anxiety or anything like that. But tests at MIT...well, they're hard. So ... became a tradition. Every equation sheet I've ever written for an exam at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  freshers from Gonville and Caius College (one of the 31 colleges at Cambridge ... stands at the end of the boat, drops this stick down to the river bottom ... be standing up at the end of the boat. My knees were shaking! Between

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  will lose your deposit at the other school, but it is a standard practice ... students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. I sat in ... is too early to know. In a week or two, we'll once again look at where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  Here is what I bought at Shaw's (the local grocery store) last night ... consumed at the Burton Conner Ice Cream Event today. Check your CPW booklet ... for serious, and I'd love to meet you guys. =) I'll also be at the Reg

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  9:30am: I'm not blogging about admissions today, because at noon the ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve ... year's hunt organizers -- Dan '03 (at right) and my old Baker House

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  think of nefarious nerds tapping away at Internet terminals, fueled by ... that hacking indeed originated at MIT, where computing and cleverness go ... Nickel Plate." Anybody at MIT can join right in, even freshmen, and get

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  conference at Princeton, I read two articles in today's New York Times which ... professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School) and Nick ... . Professors Xavier Gabaix of the Economics department at MIT and Augustin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  oatmeal ever at Small World Coffee, a sweet independent cafe that offers a ... climbing! Katherine is an avid climber and an employee at the wall, so we had ... now a freshman at Princeton and is hosting a show called The Freshman on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  ocean directly under the boat. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute ... what extent do you feel that the classes you took at MIT contributed to ... learned when I was at MIT was the way that MIT taught me how to learn. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  , you know (just kidding!)? Just like everything else at MIT, sororities ... sororities, five of which are at MIT." Sororities are involved in academic ... sorority life at MIT (http://web.mit.edu/panhel/www/index.htm). Want to test

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  took a week of going to bed at 8PM and getting up at 4AM to shock me back ... to be up to finish homework and go to class at 10AM seems to get me out ... refreshing. Although, when half the hall is getting up at 4PM, the point at

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  admissions bloggers at some other great schools have been blogging this same topic (patience with the mail) this week. Here's a sampling: Daniel at ... us at this time to check on the status of your application or to see if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  undergrad days at MIT, Jeanne Bamberger, mentioned. And I'm glad it was the ... cybernetics and himself a prodigy who went to Tufts at 11 and Harvard at 15 ... of different ways of looking at different things." There are also all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  , lightsabers, trap doors, and moving AT-AT legs, beyond "Don't Cry For Me ... Night in Bespin", and beyond the amazing blue / white / red lighting at ... to see The Aristocrats at LSC next weekend, I'm afraid that this may

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

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  's physics class at Bergen County Technical High School, students sit at round ... considered -- teaching physics at a high school level. That would allow me to ... State University of New York at Stony Brook where he earned his masters in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  at a civil engineering company. She was able to travel around Italy on the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... at MIT but is expected to be learned on the job. She loved her

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  Ocho, in Miami's Little Havana. The Cuban sampler at Versailles ... Counselors (ECs) before the Central Meeting. The Tampa ECs and I dining at Charley's Steakhouse. At right, Regional Chair Lauralee Grizzaffi '91

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  deserve some props, and dare I say mad props at that, for genuinely ... condition. I may not live through this, but it's okay--at least I'll have ... to lunch at Steam Cafe. 6. Some random lady at Steam Cafe, for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  Let's start off with a little riddle. What is white, at least 2500 ... was a little snippet about an event at the Enormous Room, a hip ... the Busycle. Here are just a few pictures I was able to snap at the

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  back at the registration desk since a little before 10PM. I'll get out of here at midnight and can proudly say that my registration butt has been ... all at once early next week. Tomorrow should be a little more exciting

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005