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  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  singer to come to campus and give a concert), and guess who came! :D (no ... MIT 150 Open House, where a bunch of departments and student groups put on a big show to the surrounding community, MIT alumni, and just anyone

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  , I discovered Rebecca Black (and am forever scarred) and I received a ... is Tuesday 3. Tomorrow is Wednesday 4. And Thursday comes afterwards ... drafted this post on Tuesday and I acknowledge that today is actually

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  , Yan's vocabulous wit, and Anna's inspirational eloquence, I can offer ... , inappropriately timed humor, and meme pictures. There will ultimately be a binary outcome to the decision you receive from MIT, and the odds are heavily

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  always get past it and immediately get behind another battle before we even ... chemical reactions (reactions that oscillate in time and space), so I had to pore over chemistry textbooks and scientific journals for information on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving Gobble gobble!

  

  (From 6.00 lecture on Tuesday - clearly, my mind was on the lecture...) Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Hope you all are enjoying the holiday weekend - spend some good, relaxing time with your family and friends

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  and live vicariously. :-) My schedule: Today (10/4) - Rio Grande Valley (Brownsville, Harlingen, Mercedes, and McAllen, TX) Tomorrow (10/5) - San Antonio, TX Wednesday and Thursday (10/6-7) - Austin, TX Then I'm headed back

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  people talking about “engineering leaders” and “engineering leadership.” I ... between generic leaders and engineering leaders? Truth be told, I’m still a ... like a carnival for job-seeking undergrad and grad students. Some

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  to MIT” mind-set. And last time I checked, this was the Massachusetts ... -can’t-solve-a-Rubik’s-cube n00b. As in, I’m-bad-at-arithmetic n00b. As in, the-only-computer-games-I’ve-played-are-Frogger-and ... -have-is-using-the-“Store”-function-on-my-TI-83 n00b. I have my special little place at MIT and I’m definitely not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  ’s baking supplies and found sprinkles and icing, and voila: We finished up ... called her home from West Campus and gathered the entire hall into the ... expressed Esther’s age in binary, using 5 candles and only lighting two

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Just a little hack… You never know what you'll see on your way to class

  

  Just a quick little footage of a hack I found this morning in Lobby 7. Sorry for the bad quality, I just took out my Blackberry and shot it!

  • by Celena C. '12
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  your house, the car is at the shop, and you don't have any firearms. What ... us his great humor, vigilante vision, and sick drumming talent, as I ... to rise. The shrewd cretins had shut down roadways and laid waste to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about Kevin Gillespie and J.R. Hildebrand. In 1997-98, a student named Kevin ... shock, he hid the envelope. Hid it from his parents, friends and college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  aura of professionalism, grace, and personality whether she’s reporting ... seats in Congress, lead only 15 Fortune 500 companies, and hold a mere 3 ... 1,000 men and 1,000 women, this book said women were twice as likely

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  RING DELIVERY!!! It's about time.

  

  Last night was ring delivery. A night of pictures, desserts, dressed up classmates, and most importantly...BRASS RATS! As usual, I'll let the video speak for itself.

  • by Celena C. '12
  • May 2, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Waitlisted Students

  In the near future, we'll have some advice and information here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Something is coming, part 2… Snively and I are still working on something awesome.

  

  Snively and I are still working on something awesome. This week: (In reference to this.) (Photo credit: Liz Kimball '11.) (See part one.) (Yes, we ate it afterwards.)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  invention on the internet, and it's called Omegle! The theory behind it is chat-room-esque in nature, except it's a 1 on 1 conversation, and it's with a complete and total stranger. Most of these conversations consist

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  assignments, and a tangible lack of both time and sleep. Yup, second semester is ... to Psychology 21W.755 - Writing and Reading Short Stories 9.URG ... concerning jellyfish, nodules, and hermaphroditic cats, but also because I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tunnel Adventures We didn't get lost, in case you were wondering.

  

  Aside from classrooms and auditoriums and dorms, MIT also plays host to an elaborate system of tunnels that wind under and in between the ... of whom you might have heard about before), and I decided to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 15, 2009