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  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  people to act as insurgents and hostages, I jumped at the opportunity. The ... in style - on a Chinook helicopter. As we boarded the bird at Endicott ... mountains of New Hampshire. We landed at the prison, and quickly set up our

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  Believe it or not our term at Cambridge just ended. The terms are only 8 weeks long and amazingly short compared to MIT's semesters. Many of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT ... friend at the time what the best school in the world was. Without the ... internship at IBM Extreme Blue, and he spent a summer teaching Java programming

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  at MIT. I became a blogger before I was even a student here, just ... years?" ("I'm supposed to know at 18?"), or "describe a hardship," ("this ... , hugging Judah Friedlander at Harvard, sleeping outside in Killian Court with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  sensory overload at its peak. (You'd say the same thing if you saw five ... rule at MIT for you: sophomores start out taking at least 60 units. See ... first year at MIT is for us to get over ourselves. What's that, you say

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  college, myself included. But after spending an entire semester at the ... socially and academically beneficial at MIT. Necessary background information…. (from the MIT Panhel website) Over 400 women are in sororities at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  Washington Chilli Duck -- "if it's not working at Chilli Duck, it's not going ... Library Boston Symphony Orchestra Red Sox game Mapparium at the Mary Baker ... top it Yum yum -- romantic dining Aujourd'hui -- at the top of my list

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... is. So, is every day at MIT as jam-packed with all of those activities ... meet so many of you. Here's the photo we took at the end; click to see a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  of you may be saying, "C'mon, MIT is really good at math. They have to ... waitlist or not, and if so, how many students they need to admit. At this ... who accept this offer will "unenroll" at the first college and enroll at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  for the semester ahead, we took a break to look at the stars (which you

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... journalism at Fordham University in New York City. It was an interesting panel ... science journalism would be like. Even at the undergraduate level, there

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  's artistic and culinary adventures at leftunattended.com. Looking for a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  image into orbit." Check out their website, at http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  the ball at a certain point in its trajectory. This really isn't hard, at all. But then the question goes on to describe three different ... thrown at him by an island native. Hee. =) Responses to Questions: Shannon

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  &A blog soon. We'll also be adding a photo blog at some point this fall

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  -year-old will board a plane at San Angelo Regional Airport/Mathis Field ... civilian at Goodfellow Air Force Base. Isaac was taught in Germany at ... 'll miss his presence at home. It'll just be different without him.'' Isaac

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  doesn't mean it's no good," argues Marilee Jones, the admissions dean at ... , my interviewer was pretty surprised at the range of colleges that I was ... neuroscience!" I would respond (I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to study at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  a week's worth to follow. At the conclusion of this series, I plan to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  question is however, do I celebrate at: A) Toscanini's B) JP Lick's C

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  should email me (benjones at you-know-the-rest) by July 31st, 2006 and ... to become involved with at MIT. Write a short essay (100 words or so) responding to this prompt: "At 4:42 PM EST, an aardvark sprang from its burrow

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006