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  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  required to take me out to a romantic dinner -- perhaps in the North End ... this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in ... is very interested in what sets MIT students apart from students at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  . Hasbro is AWESOME! I mean, let's face it, I work in a toy factory. Anywho ... choose to steer myself: North! The bus driver chooses to steer: Wherever ... . We circled the same huge park twice, in rush hour, on a crowded bus

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... like Tiger on the links in Tucson. I now understand desert rules for golf ... Tucson native inhabitant; the rattlesnake. There I am in the middle of my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  -than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1935 – First ... There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the ... Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States. 2003 – Space

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Yesterday was the third Monday in April, meaning it’s Patriots’ Day (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine). The third day in a four-day weekend, it also marks what has been a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  ="Cameron: except of course North Dakota and Florida."]any other state in the ... Hills, and 2) we’re not as cold as North Dakota in the winters. Henry ... Back in September, when Shuli introduced the baby bloggers, they

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  eating out at a nice Italian restaurant in the North End. It makes me ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my ... in these first few weeks. Today was my first midterm of second

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  Square, Coolidge Corner, Beacon Hill, the North End, just to name a few. The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city ... . Favorite movies: Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland and Philadelphia

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science ... parentheses). I brought a nice mug I bought at the cool Korean market just north ... friends in DC. Should be quite nice. I'll be blogging a bit less during this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  , and another is reportedly on the run in Watertown, a city that borders ... local ABC affiliate, boston.com, and Reddit. In light of these events ... sophomore Emily TenCate almost immediately put together an initiative to buy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  between 15 and 20 percent of MIT students graduate with bachelors degrees in ... , because I should be listed as a year 3 student with a second major in VII ... the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... something truly serendipitous. Back in July, when I created the 2010 Blogger ... awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a ... and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  those buildings on the north end of campus. Of course, I played it off ... thought hey, if I can get lost in the middle of campus after 3 years of ... navigate the 77 Mass Ave construction in their cars? So, first of all, every

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  every MIT student receives in Orientation, and mine is a little more than ... MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... Fenway Park, home to the Red Sox. In front of me is more of the Back Bay

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  Properly Apply Cologne How to Save Your Date from Choking How to Buy Someone a Drink How to Get Someone to Buy You a Drink ... of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has ... completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during CPW (the preview weekend in April), and on your own doing adult things

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... Adam had finished a 16.100 (Aerodynamics) lab. We got to Plymouth in time ... collect Adam for the annual Plymouth North/Plymouth South football game

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005