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  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  Athena locker, the damage will still be done. So here's a lesson for you ... morning, you will probably accidentally delete the entire folder anyway and then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my MacBook, but let me tell you that HD video is not kind to CPUs. On the plus side, we have great CPW clips on the Class of 2014 site. If you didn't see Dr

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the ... whole other blog) and if this course is to be believed, the Germans spend a perhaps disturbing amount of time talking about what the women and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... , working memory and the visuospatial sketchpad, long term memory, etc.), and ... memories". In this case, specifically recalling the day you found out you got

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different ... on the admissions website. What I will do, however, is let the dorms ... the author of Beaver Scope Almost a year ago I stumbled upon an

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  There are no directions in Japan. The buildings are numbered, but in ... happened the moment when I got off the limousine bus from the airport to go to the landlord's office, and it happened even worse when I got off the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  Hi!! I've been super busy over the past few weeks with various final ... theses. Below is the link to my final project for 4.502/4.564, an ... language developed by two guys from the Media Lab (naturally...). So instead

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in ... alignment with the 8:30am start time of the exam. And, of course, relearning all the physics I learned freshman/sophomore year, starting a week ago

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  . Pass/No Record is not an excuse to slack off and not learn the basics - it's a chance to adjust to MIT and learn the study habits you'll need for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  Beginning this weekend, MIT will be going on the road with Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Northern California/Nevada and the ... 're excited to have these conversations with your counselor about the state of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a ... . What could MIT give me that could top those three? I went to the second floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  minutes ago and writing the first 2 lines of this entry, I remembered another one. But I've run out of actual lines on the sheet, and had to squeeze it into the margin. I hope you'll notice that I actually added a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I've faced since the summer ended: living off campus. I lived in the East ... apartments in Boston, the wheels starting turning in my head, and I joined the

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

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  Some point back in April, after all the decisions had come in, my mom ... 'm pretty sure she was joking, for some reason the idea stuck with me. Over the summer, I had ample opportunity to compile what may (someday) be the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  (mostly because you deny them), until the night before your exams hit. At this point, there's no cure except fervent studying and the occasional swearing that you'll do better next time (unfortunately, the illness becomes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... Weekend (CPW), you will have the opportunity to experience what life at MIT ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate ... if I sit around and wait for the news, the world around me isn't going ... , and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ! So awesome! On that note, what does everyone think of the new season ... out curiosity, how does one join RingComm? Towards the end of your freshman year, the freshman class council will email the class, asking for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a ... prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business ... generally difficult to schedule events that everyone can attend. The turn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006