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  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  for 3 hours, demolishing half a biology problem set, watching classic ... bed with a dozen other people, carrying part of my couch upstairs for no apparent reason, starting to go out for pizza with friends before remembering

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of ... have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  Costume Design for Theater class she took last semester, and I have to say ... course, costuming isn't strictly required for Guild games - but it's a lot ... opinion. :) For more Halloween photos, check out this gallery, put together

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  (Editor's note: For rhetorical purposes, let's pretend that “today ... today, I walked onto the MIT campus for the first time and nearly hated it for an entire 12 hours. Cambridge was wrapped in a wet blanket of cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to ... started. For a period of about two weeks they were CONSTANTLY outside ... leaving, and firetrucks parking. I watched the scene for a little bit and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  I was a freshman, which let me run for days on adrenaline ... general things to chew on to keep me going for a good long while. I even ... along the streets back, conserving my energy. (I opened them to check for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  scheduled work rotations the base also had special activities planned for the ... simulator flights, Habitat for Humanity project, barbeque with the executive ... appreciation for the enlisted troops that I'll one day have the opportunity to

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  useful for my internship. I know I haven't explained much about my project ... /proyectos/friki-apps/wii-servo-linux/wii-servo.html (As it turns out, "friki" is the Spanish slang word for what we would ... written for this project. The best part? They're written in Python, the only

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  For the third consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... students, approximately 70, on the waitlist for another few weeks until we ... decisions. The waitlist admissions process will continue for the next week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  (when you come to campus and check out the dorms for yourself), the highly controversial Residential-Based Advising, and more graphic advertisement for each ... actually cut off, for some reason by Youtube, meh) (psst, Steve is my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  (nicknamed "strobe alley") now stands as an invaluable resource for students ... on forever). I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the ... with three large binders of negatives, a taste for medium format, and a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  in 4) and is even notably lower than it was for this year's MIT seniors ... that this year's academic metrics are very high. For example, 92% of ... skills, qualities, and experiences that should make for a really exciting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  : Outline for Today's Lecture Oxidation Reactions of Alkenes ... 's the bottom line. Works for me. In other news, since I last posted, I ... looking for something to take your mind off of decisions and don't happen to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... guarantees on-campus housing to undergrads for eight semesters, I was under no ... first year. (Some freshmen keep paying for their dorm room while

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... AIN AND AOB APS ARM COM DEV DLO DSS EMB ENS EPS ERR ESU ETE FOR FOR GCA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn or sermon, but it's not. It's the title for this post. It's quite fun ... having just finished registering for classes. He is ready to go and succeed

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  First off a few notes of clarification. CME stands for Cambridge ... . They are the people that started CME and have been funding it for the ... to come to Caius College for a formal next week. So stay tune. I

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  though she's 3,000 miles away and doesn't particularly care for large mammalian creatures. So this morning, I rolled out of bed two hours early for ... every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  undergraduates who are US citizens for success as officers in the United States military, but there are opportunities for international students to get ... Corps platoon, flight school for the Navy or Air Force, or the nuclear

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  each direction. Of these two, the one closest to the wall is the lane for ... double-yellow line. Do not merge into oncoming traffic for any reason. You ... Infinite Corridor karma will be damaged for weeks, resulting in parking

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007