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  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  MIT. Howso? Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel ... 't believe me? Check out the timeline. This year's Nobel Prize in Economics ... ", or the costs attendant to searching for employment in down labor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  very same Walker Memorial in which I have endured many a painful midterm ... next few hours were spent lost in the whirlwind of glorious endorphins ... Cormick at about 11:45 pm, naively thinking that I would be in bed by 1 am at

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT ... what it all means!) But in many ways, I’m really not your “typical MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  students from the waitlist in a 3-round process, and previous years were very similar. We'll know more about how this year looks in a few weeks. The ... students, if any, could be admitted from the waitlist, while in parallel

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  Hello all! I’m just popping in to show you guys a video from an ... /hip-hop/rap group: FM’s songs have been featured in “So You Think You can Dance ... Weekend. Last year, I waited four hours in the rain to see N.E.R.D. I would

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  the deadline? And in the same envelope? Am I in trouble? Let's take the last question first. No, you're not in trouble if your materials haven ... to happen: The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  It was sometime during Act III of finals study week, in the pressure ... -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of ... , procrastinatory research project that I adopted in the dwindling time before my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day ... opposed to all things apple, I've shared my dislike and disinterest in the ... zen-like to compose your thoughts in 140 characters.

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  mercifully scarce in a job that regularly involves glorifying the trivialities ... wish: to pluck the wings of a fleeting moment, spread it out in the sunlight, crystallize it in glass forever. Sometimes I succeed, but it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  visiting campus, but it was also my first time in Boston/Cambridge. Here is a ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  So, less than THREE WEEKS until CPW! All of us in the office are ... coming to CPW and haven't registered yet, remember to log in to your My ... Report"-esque gadget, which she demos and describes in the video. Check it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two ... the scheduling for every exam and you get three exams in three days ... = awesome. Exams in the same week = not). Now I have my own theories on why

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  it before, here, and I'll probably blog about it again sometime in the ... Hasbro to see if they'd be interested in producing and manufacturing them ... was that a museum in Lowell, MA was interested in displaying Electro

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  calling new students and chatting with them about MIT. I've participated in ... don't particularly want to walk all the way over to campus in order to ... as long as the telethon lasts, to answer questions in the comments, and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to ... . Were security guards going to run in from all around me? Were agents ... 'm sure you can expect an entry or two about it in the future.

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If ... see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact ... turned in my homework....in the future! Perhaps surprisingly, it had

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need ... waiting for Prince Charming's white horse to get in gear) - a witch (even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  It was cold today. So cold. My dad put my winter coat in the mail and ... emails and watched last night's Colbert Report on my laptop in my underwear wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  reason for why I haven't posted in over twelve decades ("I was sick", "I ... for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have ... eyelid and a little pamphlet on not engaging in vigorous physical activity

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008