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  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind ... tracks behind Simmons down Massachusetts Avenue, straight in front of MIT, then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  Scholarship. And he comes from a place where college just isn't in the cards for ... Institute of Technology offered a similar deal. So in less than a month Logan ... attain a 98.9 grade point average before graduating second in his class at

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a different light and expect you to be the expert in everything. Trust me, this ... name was printed in every paper and he was associated closely with MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  .01; Physics I)! 3 excruciating hours in an indoor track field - can't say I did ... in that class! I'll be glad when it's 12:01 PM on Thursday, at which ... time in four months, I'll get to see my family. I'm holding on to that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  noble intention in mind, I woke up bright and early on Sunday morning ... .005 (Disease and Society in America a.k.a. my humanities class for this ... lot of s's in that word) a semblance of normalcy, and MIT appears much

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  in Burton-Conner. In Burton-Conner we have kitchens, kitchens for ... her from giant fish fame. She also doesn't cook. In fact, I think she ... cooking (as much as she says it does). Teasing and taunting happens (all in

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  that I haven't blogged in "forever." (The earlier back you look, the ... entries I planned but never wrote. Looking back in the archives, it seems ... speed on what's been going on in my life lately. The last you really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre ... with my usual black North Face. (No, I do not usually go out in public

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little ... entry every time there's a quick update (every several days or so) and in ... and 2007), consistently places in the top 3 or 4 at nationals every year

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  ! It will be in the mail on Wednesday, and in your mailboxes soon after ... wise: if you're flying in, book your plane tickets early (You may want to ... away as Singapore. There will be meetings in nearly 60 locales, including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  colleges in the Northeast over three days. At the time, I was fairly undecided in which colleges I wanted to apply to. All I wanted to do was get ... SLUSH. Now I was in the State of Massachusetts for the first time. A inch

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... prepared to take on my sophomore year having declared my major and settled in ... come back to campus but this time as an employee working in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... artwork from MIT's collection. Artists represented in the collection include ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... week, Ben came back to MIT to say one final goodbye to everyone in the ... obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I ... minutes early so I watched as guys dressed in batman pajamas stormed the ... . We headed to theater 12, showed our ticket stubs, and walked in. Not

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  that I read in middle school. The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... , actually), the fireworks go off over Lake Michigan, in celebration of America

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  been engaged in this discussion with members of the class of 2011, the ... possible to do so, we would conduct this interview process in the Fall, when each candidate would be available for in-person interviews. However, the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  't have to leave this place for long... Friday June 6, 2008 began in the ... a well-organized system where we reported to a station in order to be ... . The undergrads looked lame in their thin, unsubstantial gowns, while the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  Oh, hey, the weekend's here. Awesome. In other news, the last full ... Symphony Orchestra, and the Chorallaries were also out in full force. I wish ... haven't perfected the art of being in multiple places at once. (Yet

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008