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  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  All around North America, it's been a pretty snowless winter. Some people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time ... my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  if you haven’t yet, you can take a look right here. MIT: Live the ... summer with a new design and streamlined navigation, we also made room for ... communication strategy to showcase a constantly changing mix of videos -- from old

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my ... documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  admissions selection process. During that process, we notice a lot of ... 's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... give a lot of people trouble - it's physics, not pyhsics; physiology, not

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my family's basement, which contained my father's office, flooded during a terrible rain storm. My father, an electrical engineer who had swapped a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  yourself healthy. Take this advice from a hypocrite. At the end of freshman year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... began to sacrificially prepare myself for a massive MATLAB lab and a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of ... -of-the-year blogger get-together be held at SkyZone (i.e. playing dodgeball on a court ... like a 4-year-old. I realize that I could write a whole entry on how our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  hosted a graduation barbecue in the backyard for 40 people. We set up a big ... in a circle. We bought balloons, we bought beer and hard lemonade, we made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  amazing acts at the show: - Chorallaries (a cappella, co-ed) - Jacob Sharpe ... , cheerleading) - Logarhythms (a cappella, all-male) - Ridonkulous (dance, hip ... those that don't know, "a cappella" is basically making music with only

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  a ton of movies, tv shows, and plays to fill my visual cortex! As such, here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in ... House Lie to Me Bones Men of a Certain Age The Game Meet the Browns Numb3

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young ... a college admissions officer. Occasionally, this young man had a hard ... life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am now back at MIT. I took a long nap in the library today. I can feel MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  , SM ’67, PhD ’70 about a blog entry he thought you might enjoy (via ... walked around for three hours. Then, he was off to do soundchecks. A few ... Black Eyed Peas played to a sold-out crowd at the TD Banknorth Garden. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... ordered. Three hours later, I tripped over my own shoes and fell up a flight ... -inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] MIT can be a very tiring place. MIT IS a very ... for snacks. Art gives us MIT students a reason NOT to do schoolwork, and ... Association, and I do my research in Camera Culture, a group at the Media Lab

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  Remember that epic pset I told you about? Well, a few days after that ... right from freshman year, I came up with a plan to help me to stay calm and ward off test-taking anxiety. Quoting myself from a blog entry

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  hundreds of companies come and court hundreds of students. It's a time when ... their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a ... actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the summer after their freshman year. This program is a Professional Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  xiang" - a phrase that alludes to the traditional "tou xiang," a Chinese ... place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now ... meet new people, and trying new things - the better I adjusted to a new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  As you may know, MIT has a strong and vibrant Greek community, made ... (pictures below) - Eating contest (pie tin filled with whipped cream and a gum ... blow a bubble wins.) - Participation (team with most cake/pie entries

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008