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  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... your tongue instead of chewing it. We started out with a piece of Dove ... ." Unfortunately, my taste buds aren't sophisticated enough to tell what kind of wood

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  discourages filesharing." So the Olympics just finished up. I didn't get a ... were amazing. I looked around on YouTube for a clip but just couldn't ... When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled "Copyright

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers ... a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn't

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here ... or her a call or write him or her an email. You should do this, not one ... : If we don't have any alumni in your area and your interview is waived

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  9 8 2 1 4 5 3 6 4 7 5 Discussion: This is just a map, can't do too much with it unless you know how to traverse it. CLUES: A few of these ... befriended by a group of warrior women with a quiver of arrows. They give Joe

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  If there's one thing MIT students aren't known for having, it's spare time. But if a challenge is laid down for the MIT community, odds are you ... Amanda David, a sophomore at MIT majoring in management, had in mind when

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  (I should note that I stole this title from a People article on Kate ... .") Their wedding took place in Bellevue last Saturday, and was a bittersweet ... : Nuclear Engineering) -- the original person who put a laptop on his door, no

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  that our hearts go out to you. We understand that there is a lot on your ...  [email protected]. We’ll be here to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure we get your ... a financial hardship, we’ll waive it. If you had been planning, but
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  recommendation, but if your application didn’t include a math/science teacher ... If you were selected as a QuestBridge Finalist but did not rank any ... . Please email us at [email protected] stating that you are a Quest
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  of food types (From reading this blog you all know I’m a foodie, so ... This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... April, a group of four sophomores, who are all incoming GEL students, won

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes ... December, majoring in civil and environmental engineering. A Truman Scholar ... 2007. In 2005, Alia founded a nonprofit business, Emerge Global, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week ... . In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... assigned to narrate a short story of our own, in both our favorite and least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  I attended classes. I don't think it's a coincidence that so many East ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... been gone a long time but I was reminded of this story when I went out on ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  exclaimed, "Hey! You write a blog, don't you?" I was quite surprised to hear ... 're thinking. You're thinking, "But Laura, even though you haven't written in ... , it's such a cool class!" I was enrolled in 8.02, and I was very

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  rating underwear colors in my inbox *insert context here*

  

  At MIT, all of the undergraduate students share a single mailing list called Dormspam. If you send a message to this list, every single ... started not to resemble colors at all. I've assembled a small---alllow me to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  once a year they gather for a conference. This year's conference was in ... of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a ... , Executive Director of the Education Conservancy. Lloyd Thacker leads a panel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  problems you haven't seen before. If I couldn't solve a problem, it was ... in myself and my answers, something that hasn't happened on a single ... me they couldn't give me a refund because it was less than 24 hours

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with ... it isn’t the sort of lecture-based history course you encounter in high school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022