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• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  ). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a hot sauce manufacturing company, to obtain a perfect score on Pacman ... Schoenfeld told ref Don Koharski to "eat another dougnut, you fat pig!" and was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... of San Francisco do this every weekend, but do they do it on bikes they ... to walk our bikes down a steep set of stairs, across a path underneath

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  calendar, which says that it's five days until Christmas and I deserve to be ... Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only ... . You would sort of think that kind of time would inspire me to study 5

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to ... big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of ... time to do, including mural painting, knitting, and now... apparently

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for ... day, I certainly find myself empathizing with your situation -- it ... colleagues in Admissions will be happy to help you. And not 24 hours after I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  . Summer program mentors and job supervisors can also be great choices to ... take advantage of their less constrained educational environment to take ... addition to evaluation of the homeschooling portfolio, are very helpful. Some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  excellent. It demonstrated, to audience members, the importance of a conductor ... , visited MIT last Friday to receive the 2010 Eugene McDermott Award in the ... was able to teach us so much about the music that we did not know. He

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  It might seem like you've been doing nothing but filling out forms ... applications to fill out. Then, of course, there are regular applications to complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  . But come to think of it, the only thing lamer* than my parents' rule ... to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn't even allowed to read, which is lame because my little brother is allowed

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  this morning on my way to class and it absolutely made my day - although, sadly, it had made like a ghost and vanished by early afternoon ... To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  . We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to ... in the snow in Killian Court. This year, it was a completely different ... whatsoever. According to the National Weather Service, we had nearly record

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  that its persons of the year are Bill and Melinda Gates and U2's Bono ... from Bono's visit to MIT to discuss poverty research. Here's Bono with ... -- I blogged it here. Also in this picture is Rachel Glennerster, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Making A Splash on July 4: The Celebration in Photos July 4th - A Photo Essay

  

  something I should experience at least once, and while I probably did enjoy it when I lived here when I was younger, it was a totally different ... other humorous conversations, me and my friends decided to discuss baby

  • by Bryan
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication-intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) requirement, you have to take two

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  left arm. Below, thanks to Peter Downs '16 (whose photography can be ... new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  To follow up on this entry... Thanks for playing Engima Wrapped In A ... of you met the challenge. Initially we had planned to only award one winner, but by the list you can see we are feeling the holiday cheer! The

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse ... Th2, which can be induced by different pathogens and are exhibited in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  went in front of the camera to nerd-fight SciShow creator Hank Green as part of a science quiz series. I watched it and found equal parts educational and adorkable so I thought I would post it here too as a little

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  (sorry, I had to rub it in). Also, that whole stereotype of British people ... 'm thinking of starting a campaign to bring this to MIT, but I doubt it would ... University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  lounge was almost always empty. It became our personal study the size of ... . Summer in Boston is miserable in some ways but it is beautiful. The air is ... tried to take photos when I was in town, starting with some evenings

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013