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  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  crazy thing you'd have fun at :) This paragraph was followed by all of the ... both would be staying at MIT over the break (flights to Oregon are ... . Full of food and full of caffeine we arrived at Copley an hour before the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  email address, and its kfig at mit dot edu. Let's try to keep that discussion off the blogs though, or at least my blog, for now, and focus on the ... • A Multi-Cultural Conference held at the beautiful Endicott House. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry ... declare sophomore standing. So what is "sophomore standing" at MIT ... at a local college) and received decent marks (5s for AP exams), MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  I woke up this morning at 8:15, 45 minutes after my alarm was going to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my ... work per week, be that in the classroom, in lab, or at home. In practice

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  competition! Yes, that's right, MIT has a pistol team, and a good one at that ... , MIT is awesome at pistol, and the range is on campus, why not join? I ... you miss the black center and hit the white part you get to stare at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  strangers.”) Have no fear; there is light at the end of the tunnel. Second ... probably an easy decision for you (at least it was for me.) Hopefully you ... “crusty’ seniors, my classmates and I are at a point where we have to make a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  :48 PM To: conner 2 I am NOT reserving the floor lounge at 8 PM on Tuesday ... nearly 3 years, I'm appalled at the subpar quality of season 3, most ... 's room and then spreads a video of them around on the Internet. And at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... would be away from home for at least 3 months until Thanksgiving. The ... stints at CTY. What am I to do? I was going to MIT. At that point, my mind

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  beat Startropics on Nestopia! I'm already at Zoda, okay?) The class was ... . Intentionally! Or maybe he was just laughing at Ives's weird dissonances. Seriously, there's this one recording of Ives "improvising" at the piano, in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  glance at the material once, then place it all by the curb to be recycled ... admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box ... where you visit or where you apply. At this point you should not care how

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  the quote of the evening, for me at least, came when Andreas from ... eat on campus, so you don't fall victim to ordering overpriced pizzas at ... healthy--at least you know that the ingredients are fresh, and nothing is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  like writing about them. I'll be back at school soon, where I'll actually ... .033, and 24.900 are all at the exact same freaking time. I'm not even joking. Of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of classes offered at MIT, three of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  got an e-mail from my labmate Jacqueline '07, who's working at NIST this ... doubt that any of the pizza places at which I will probably be eating will ... Anna's Taqueria at all. 3. My turkeys. My work with Bayer Crop

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  "finally" because I'm pretty sure I actually bought the book at the MIT Press ... some questions. So they threw in a generic thank you to the people at King's College, even though most of the people at King's didn't even know

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  camera monitors. Yeah, try that at home. (Actually, you can. They tell you ... plan - a critical look at all of our publications and the web site ... submit it to HR (it always takes me forever - I'm not good at writing about

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  interdisciplinary, which is one reason it appeals to me). I think that at another ... want to take at some point...the more different things I learn (as long ... immersed in science and technology, and wander barefoot at night through the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  required to hold the neuron at a membrane potential of -60 mV? v) If this amount of current is turned on at time t = 0 and held at this value, how ... cell is initially at a voltage V = E_L? vi) Calculate the total charge

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  song for the entry title. As the most Humanities-oriented student at MIT ... continuing to tell the world that Political Science at MIT is ranked 10th in ... you why you're here at MIT in the first place. In my case, having

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  show for at least 3 years) Or, uh, "Army of Darkness?" Well, he was ... than in Boston, at the Coolidge Corner Theater, a lovely nonprofit ... actually, it has an answer: how about BRUCE CAMPBELL DOING A BOOK SIGNING AT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... versus public schools. At MIT, compared with our "peer institutions," we ... private school students. It is to say that, at least from my perspective, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005