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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... practice. Pretty damn cool if I may say so. I was acting as an escort to Dean ... Deans and drove them to Briggs field where the flight demonstrations were

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... decisions on which students to admit. We'll provide advice and tips wherever ... students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  require frequent missions to deliver fuel, food, and spare parts. Two MIT professors have created a software tool to model interplanetary supply chains ... ://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=6275565 3/26/07: An MIT doctoral student studies how addicted people are to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  !) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort ... driving, but I'd be stuck walking to work otherwise... there's no subway around here and if you want to get around, you need a vehicle. I guess that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  solutions to the fundamental, seemingly intractable problems that plague ... focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We're going to take these corn cobs and corn husks and this briquette press

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  some reason, I waited until senior year to take the mandatory swim test, but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating ... , which gives "MIT students the opportunity to learn about ways that they

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  to organize everything properly so that my postdoc can do a few final ... pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next September/October. Details to follow later, when there are more details to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  Scottish band, beating even Franz Ferdinand. Now, you know I don't like to do just plain answer entries; I prefer to supplement them with at least some ... cicada or something and it made me think about my choice to come to MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  Marilee Jones's singing voice when she sang to the students who had ... coolest Playstation games ever. That's all I really wanted to say. Try it ... you can ask him. 4. We got to rock out to the Joneses: Ben Jones and

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... admitted. I've responded to each email with a slightly different version of the same answer, because it's the only answer I have to offer. And here

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  addition to sending out admissions decisions via postal mail, also release ... much to add beyond what you've already read elsewhere, but I do want to strongly encourage you to use the verification functionality at decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  I'm flying to San Francisco for the long weekend -- hope you kids in ... !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to ... having a book signing to promote his latest book "I Hope They Serve Beer In

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA ... Humanity. The two tasks for the day was to remove from siding from the ... opted to paint. Over lunch, we were approached by a nice old man who asked

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  that I need to have written by tomorrow, I spent the afternoon in the ... Princess Leia" and "When You're Good to Jabba" and "City on a Cloud" and "One ... to see The Aristocrats at LSC next weekend, I'm afraid that this may

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE ... to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For this entry do you mind if we don't discuss applications? I need to switch

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is really domestic. The other day, our GRT, Chris, took her to Target. When ... putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... absolute perfect answer to this question. My freshman year, I went to Sigma ... 's nearly impossible to come up with just one distinguishing interest, habit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World". It's certainly interesting to travel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ this weekend, and enlisted me to help organize. My main contribution ... . Had I first gone to Party City, I might have realized that all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005