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  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  EVENING TO 5 PM EST MONDAY... TODAYS SNOW AND FLURRIES IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND IS JUST A TEASE FOR WHATS COMING TONIGHT. SIX TO 12 INCHES IS FORECAST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE WITH 5 TO 10 INCHES IN THE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about all the things I kept meaning to write and then never got around to, and ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  "Look at at all this free time I have! I'm going to fill it to the brim ... . A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this ... it comes to money. If I have it, I spend it. Ask anybody who lives with

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to ... rest, and set off to 2.009 lecture (where I would be one of only 2 people

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... 's Day loong weekend to NYC* yayay so excited) -What the heck was going on ... to). -My Spring 2008 Classes (did you know we only have 18 school days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full ... expect to see first quarter grades. If we need them, we'll call your school ... can call our office at 617-253-3400 to see if we have them. What if we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... procrastinating! A few answers to common questions: Please remember that if ... 'd like it to. We're reading for content, and we're used to seeing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  was past the 'Sell By' date, Dad!" My dad then proceeded to explain ... fraction, to prove this point to me. All he really proved, though, was that ... going to leave this as a comment to Mitra's question, "Does anyone know if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  For now, I'll refer you to this blog entry, but I'll be back. --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving ... be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate

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

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... Euclid. They are also related to Mersenne primes: every Mersenne prime corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please ... time to follow up on that and make sure we have it as soon as possible ... early action deferred), and you are in an American school, please try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of ... ...). I probably won't take my SLR to snap away clickclickclick during lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... to be somewhat controversial: Jones believes that creativity and ... time, because parents think that's what they need to get into college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  whole narrative was supposed to be a dream that the main character was having while listening to the radio, but nobody else in the class ... she taught Jonathan Safran Foer how to write, and then I realized she

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  liked the title and couldn't bring myself to change it. Actually, this ... 't wait to get back to MIT, especially considering that she took 6 classes ... to see what she's talking about--even though I live in a dorm with two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... -- and he gave me two books to read at the beach next week. By my count, I ... bit of a workaholic. But it was totally worth it. Why it rocks to go to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but ... tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey. At Newark, I switch planes and fly to Geneva, Switzerland. From Geneva

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  to the computer, bring up this page and walk away. WAIT, WAIT! DON'T GO ... friend begins to talk about the party that you were not supposed to go to. Disable your IM and then walk away. Parents, Welcome to the Nance Effect

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006