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  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  Every once in a while something so noteworthy comes along that it ... take a trip to Hasbro's world headquarters, conveniently located in nearby Rhode Island (which is about a 1 hour drive from MIT). Thursday came

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  just been absolutely crazy and I'm just waking up from a power nap. I don ... puzzles solved yet this morning. Can we get a hint? And everyone is still asleep. :( Update #4 (11:41 AM) The dry spell is over! We just solved a

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  . Here's a little more about them: Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six-week residential, academic ... Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous academic program which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  academic school year and the possibility of a New England World Series ... hackers... I am more excited than usual because I will be a freshman ... . My oldest daughter is a high school junior this year, so I'll get to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,020 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 499 applicants -- approximately 4% of applicants -- a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  IAP, check out my entry from last year. As Bryan wrote, there is a ... : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball ... :00-6:00 PM: Breakdance 101- “A free class taught by legendary breaker and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  most excited about was seeing a building designed by Frank O. Gehry. Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don't forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." Ling: "I don't think that you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  . On the lab front, this week I started writing a paper about the project I've been doing for the past year and a half. I started with the ... , because he's the boss. And he pays my salary. I'm going to finish up a few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... .022 textbook made a cameo in Spiderman 2. 4. One thing that did bother me was ... Juggernaut, b****!" Also, there was a preview for Snakes on a Plane. Between

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... almost entirely on tests... so basically I have three tests, a pset, and possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special ... favorite '09 prefrosh and now he's a full-blown MIT student, workin' the CPW reg desk. Very cool. It wouldn't be a good entry without a picture of

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

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

  

  a newly-bought laptop, it has already been rendered obsolete. Well, I'm not writing another entry. Ha! So, let's turn this into a learning ... their pet fish. In this case, whereas Mitra has provided a professional

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  Center for Biomedical Research. So I'm a) alleviating boredom, b) avoiding ... hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to rejoice about an incident that happened yesterday. So I had a test today in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  , darn it. Being a biology major and dataphile and Excel-lover, I have ... wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... like "hey, that sounds like a good idea" and my sleep statistics Excel

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  I grew up in Elgin, IL and I'm a huge White Sox fan (sorry Astro fans ... parents and brother. The White Sox haven't been in a World Series since 1959 and haven't won a World Series since 1917 so I figured I had to take

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  in a while. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:21:31 -0400 [03:21:31 PM EDT ... announce each session either the day of or the day before, and have a sign ... join a sorority or some kind of crazily well-funded student organization

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  probably at least dimly aware that I'm a cheerleader, I never write anything ... there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair days. Seriously.) A few weeks ago, the cheerleaders recruited new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real ... and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how ... before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling ... I certainly learned a lot from Dean Khoury's talk with us. For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005