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  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  in the days to come members of the community will organize additional opportunities to gather in remembrance. At the same time, we encourage those with ... message out to the MIT community: From: Susan Hockfield Subject: Tragedy at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  free time and leisure. I think the balance is something to strive for. It ... . Weekends have been staying relatively free, which is great. I went to Boston Latin (an area high school) the other night to see the Boston-area early

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... : TODAY IS LEAP DAY! Leap Day, I'm sure you already know, comes from the fact that the earth's revolution around the Sun is not perfectly 365 days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  sail at mit is free to the mit community!) fallen into the charles ... this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student ... cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to harvard

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  In the comic Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, the character Alex Doonesbury is still deciding on colleges: RPI, Cornell, or MIT? Now, her college decision is up for a vote (aren't you glad all college decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  . This event is especially important in light of Benazir Bhutto's assassination and the polarized dialogue to which it has given rise. I hope to ... 's current state and future prospects: Date: Friday, 2/8 Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to ... . The oldest program is the Freshman Leadership Program, and the newest ... will camp out in the parks, have informal lectures with the Earth Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  new neighbor this summer - a 24-hour Dunkin' Donuts, right in the ... coffee - yep, I think I could make that a daily event, especially in the ... going to turn into (first) a debate about whether or not DD's coffee is

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  being the first in your family to go to college. Sigue leyendo. The ... out the flavors in tacos al pastor or enchiladas, while flour tortillas ... bit of butter. With this in mind, I set out to find a tortilleria or in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  . This is the best recipe for soup I have ever tasted in my short life ... around to jogging more in the early evenings because some benevolent ... end Professor X goes to the president and is all, "Mutants aren

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of finals in the department of urban studies and planning, she's exploring new ... , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit my final grades?

  Most students apply to college at the beginning of their last year of high school, so final grades aren't available. Only admitted students are required to submit their final grades.  
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some pictures and videos from one of the events. [annotation note="ive been ... into the sculpture... still figuring that out. Almost to 1000 digits!

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  . The summer is here, but he’s not going on vacation. Instead, he ... valedictorian at Lucy C. Laney High School. He plans to major in electrical and ... crime. Fraendy Clervaud, reporting: "According to the Richmond County

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  -set." Punts take various shapes, from kittens meowing on Youtube to the entire Saw Franchise to baking cookies to video games—and in my case, to ... commenters and my occasional check-in to bemoan your exponential progress or

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  as by volunteers in the audience. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a ... sclerosis, aka Lou Gherig's disease. The challenge is to dump ice water on yourself, donate $100 to the ALS Association, or do both, and then publish

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  to check out the view from up there. Nice work on ZigZag to producer ... working on a Masters in Fine Arts degree full time for the next year; Zig ... Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  of my favorite parts of events like this is getting to meet some ... send multiple admissions officers to ISEF, which will be in Indianapolis ... -professional rapper!). After visiting the projects, I went to host the MIT ISEF Lunch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 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 ... /CMS and now writes for SciShow. Mostly Ceri works behind the scenes ... Longtime readers (i.e., those of you who didn't first tune into the

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

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... 've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any ... life My time in COVID The ghost toilet in my basement (Trying to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021