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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... middle school-aged son thought it was mean for someone at the Oscars to be ... been married to for 9 years, the father of my kids, and I was cleaning

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  for the GEL Program, "almost every team practiced key leadership skills ... time, materials, and requirement specifications, and did not go for the ... boundaries sometimes, and so we forget what the customer asked for in the first

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  project in case you couldn't come to CPW and see it for yourself), but I ... . As you can see, I spent some quality time exploiting the kid for my own

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  few things. But I'll have to save those for another post because we have ... Wednesday, but for now let's just pretend so we can annoy Mikey. P.P.S. Sorry

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... hours scripting and rehearsing a dry run presentation for 6.UAT (i

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  here, but I want to thank you all for using this as a positive space with ... EDT. open threads for admitted / waitlisted / not admitted students will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  , information sharing, and networking for aspiring young Black engineers ... . I promise to get a better camera for my future productions. ;-)

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... 't insist that you should spend at least one IAP at MIT, just doing things for fun. For the overachievers, there are tons of semi-structured activities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends ... at telling stories?). Peterson, be careful what you wish for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  , you can stay home. It’s whatever you need to be ready for another ... came back to campus for track practice with no other plans except to read ... butt-kicking blondes, right? Also, big question for Buffy fans re: Faith

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions: Thursday 12/16, 9pm EST On Thursday evening, our admissions decisions will be online.

  

  password. Decisions.mit.edu will be available through the decision date for ... similar link for forgotten usernames. If you're having trouble using our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  ’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for ... were all I needed. I now feel moderately prepared for tomorrow’s exam ... on them, of course, but the three people whom I would like to ask for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  chosen to be the founders of W1. For the next few months, we worked with the architects and MIT administration to finalize the blueprints for our ... included making decisions for how the proposed dining hall for W1 would

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  Day is a very popular weekend for retreats, brief trips back home, or ... INVADERS!" they exclaimed. The place was a bit too remote for me – its ... – but I suppose it’s passable for a just a few days. Thank God there was

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  Muslim Students” Association joined forces for a dinner celebrating the ... dining hall fit for Hogwarts. It was nothing like that. That was Thursday ... , I secured my UROP for the semester – I”ll be working with the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  associations. On that note, two last observations for the weekend: 1) Benefits ... Alcide from True Blood! I waited in line for maybe 30 minutes to get personalized autographs for my girlfriend, who loves the show (as do I) for it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  For the fifth consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60 ... offer) or decline it. We will be maintaining the waitlist for another few

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was actually gorgeous yesterday, except for the 10 minutes at the proposed

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  I am really excited for spring semester’s classes, and without ... , some more in 7th grade, for a whole year in 9th (including some intense cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010