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  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  hosts a reception at his enormous hilltop mansion, "WestWind." The ... folks I saw at the reception were Prof. Woodie Flowers, my old dormmate ... saw someone from your team... While the company at the event was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  Right now, I'm sitting at home at my dining room table, with a big ... , Every school night (Sunday-Thursday), promptly at 11 pm, one can hear the cacophonic calls of "Cocoa! Cocoa!" echo through East Campus. Or at least we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  process from the moment your application arrives at MIT through the mailing ... interests at heart and will treat your case with great care. While we're on ... December 7th, and any scores we have at that time will be considered. While

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of ... some classes at Hogwarts and see if there are any similar ones at MIT ... everyone at Hogwarts has special abilities, you could say the same for MIT. I

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  very helpful during this difficult time. Meanwhile, back at MIT, life has been blowing by at full pace. I have 16 more days until I'm no ... xkcd! It also probably entails me falling over at one point until I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at the beautiful new conference center at Harvard Medical School, the New ... at 8 AM, and the morning was spent listening to medical and graduate

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  brain is concerned, so when you get home at night, you're not exactly ... a shot at winning, and the latter for pure entertainment value ... you have a 220 on your math SAT. You know when you're at a wedding and

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  interested in catching up on some TV. This month, you can see (at least) three ... that much stronger at MIT – you need two Harvard geeks to equal just one ... was cast: At the end of last summer, the WB recruited heavily from MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  heard back from them, don't worry. Give your EC at least a few days to ... can either give us a call at 617.253.4791 or drop us an email at ... the interview except that it was at his house, which was quite dark, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  leave it out at room temperature without fear of food poisioning. This new ... classes and waiting in line at Anna's Taqueria at 8 PM at night. Now, professors at MIT are generally pretty approachable by undergrads, but I think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  Today was my last day at work, which was very sad. Well, let's go ... insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of ... in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the ... sophomore year at a party at Baker, but I wasn't really aware of his existence

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special ... 11 hours at the reg desk, I headed over to Thursday night's opening

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  So the first night in Rome was spent pretty casually. We arrived at ... , EVERYTHING IS A NUMBER. So we arrived at our first restaurant after not too ... on the Metro and got off at the Colosseum stop (appropriately named if

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  'm doing a bad job at this regular updating thing. I promise that within the ... classes, and some of you are probably curious about the classes offered at ... subject I'm poor at, and applies it to biology, a subject I'm good at. We

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  My dear former floormate Shannon '05 (who's still at MIT pursuing her Masters in Course 16: Aero/Astro) held an engagement party last Saturday at MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  sauces (honey mustard, mango chutney, pesto, and sundried tomato) at Pommes ... nearly-2000 year old piece of wood, and a three-level gift shop at the ... is worth two and a half hours of waiting) a colorful look at Dylan

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  were invented at the Pillsbury Bake-Off. It's not the holidays unless Sam ... like 60,000 calories a day, but at least it followed the basic principle of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  knit sweaters--when I'm at MIT, I have been known to take bathroom breaks ... Melinda Gates doesn't seem to be so thrilled about it. Look at that scowl. I ... I suspect the only reason he has any political influence at all is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  : Watch the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden live at http ... th at 4 pm and 8 pm, Sunday Dec. 11th @ 2 pm. In the Kresge Little ... Pediatric AIDS Foundation and the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005