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  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may ... governing bodies at MIT) in another entry, but for now, what matters most is ... persuade the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms, Sun Kim '11 (Next House), to let them

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  one football game. I never went to any sort of sporting event at my high ... morning from a friend at Next House saying that she saw this above New House ... at it, it looked like it was strung between Tang (a graduate dormitory

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  'm guessing most of you are seniors, so you'd be looking at taking a gap year ... 's really hard and complicated, feel free to email me at kfig at mit dot edu

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  at these meetings? What should you expect? First, the admissions ... known as ECs) will greet attendees at the door. Please note that no RSVP ... has been most helpful? What hasn't been helpful at all? And for those of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  History at Indiana University, Editor of the Journal of American History ... memorials at the bombing site. This talk was one of 13 of The Resilient City ... Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the School of Architecture at MIT

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat ... design at Ring Premiere. Then the committee hosts a reception for the class ... sophisticated. Or something. Rick makes a cheesy pose with his ring at my request

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  second title at NCGA MIT sophomore Julia Zimmerman won the all-around title at the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Championship. http ... better aim with a pistol than their counterparts at the Army, Navy, Coast

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  called the TRR, or trottoir roulant rapide, and is being tested at Paris ... . Wikipedia says, "At first it operated at 12km/h but too many people were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest 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 ... (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  showing them through code - vb + java. Are there similar programs at MIT that one could take? Well Justin, looking at the course catalog (updated for fall 2007! pfffft!), we offer at least math 10 classes in nonlinear

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  Oct. 23 in the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium at 7 p.m. Marjane ... French-language students at MIT are benefiting from a breakthrough method ... her colleagues. Working in parallel with English classes at institutions

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  , leaf! Christiane asks: What's the age-limit for prospect students at MIT? (If there is any at all.) There's no specific upper-bound, but MIT doesn ... friends at other universities have to stay in the college they applied to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  friend Shana. I also woke up at 5 AM and watched a tape of Celebrity Duets ... years at MIT, I was always able to make time for the American Idol ... lounge on Wednesday nights at 9 PM, which I have always hoped will resolve

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  So here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on all summer... the ... (with descriptions), and also a complete archive at the bottom. No longer ... more to tell, but I have to go play a show at the middle east. Look for

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  particularly inspired to wax philosophical. So I want questions about life at ... queen you are at MIT is a pale shadow of the drama queen you were in high ... classes is 5.0!); grad students are living the good life, at least as far as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  before, but they're now compiled into one entry. Me at Clayton '08's ... . Summer '05. Me at the Undergraduate Assocation President ... . My attempt at an avatar me, complete with my trenchcoat and the lucky

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  top download at a popular indie music Web site. Dupuis loves math and ... at the age of eight and now holds 20 national rifle championship titles ... neutrino mass earned a spot at the International Science and Engineering Fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  , thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... the scene below (note the delicious Mike's Pastry at right): not your ... French stock market is likely to underperform today: ..based on research at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  % MIT 32% RPI 19% Cornell My sources tell me that at least two of the ... crashed the server at some point last week, and when it came back up, the folks at doonesbury.com shut down voting access for those in the mit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  at MIT. I did not, shall we say, come from the most stringent of high ... /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006