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  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the ... short answer essays. So be careful in these sections, too! What happens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  . They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a ... voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah wah wah wah..." and called back in alarm. We don't know where they came

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the ... congratulations is in order for Zahir Dossa, who I profiled in my first blog. A ... warming in Antarctica! He's currently planning the first few episodes, which

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  Drinking Song, but there is another traditional MIT song (this one in the Logs standard repertoire) that (at least in bits) more accurately ... , my CPW was pretty tame. Keep in mind this is saying tame for CPW - this

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  this year) In more substantial matters: Coming up: (after my Patriot ... sitting on my desk right now) In the meantime, if there is anything that I can help you in making your big decision before May 1, feel free to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  MIT Blackjack Team, opens Friday in movie theaters across America. In ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... based If you are an international student and 21 has not yet opened in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  having dinner in New York with Michel Gondry on MIT money - BUT this should only take a second, and I haven't blogged in so long that I got pushed ... 'S PI TIME (PIE IN THE 132) Date: March 14, 2008 10:13:04 PM EDT To

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch ... 's subtitle ("And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  open with anticipation for the coming soccer match.   In one ... their control boxes. In the other, Toxic Algae's bots tweaked nervously ... batery failure in a sudden death one-on-one round (a clearly unfair call by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... top of Boston's Prudential Tower. (In case anybody missed the ... MIT graduates hold the world in our hands (cheesy, but yes). If you look

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... , hopefully it's not just some well-known internet hoax that I've been taken in ... characters in Star Wars, so I'm assuming that they're genuine. And since, hey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  's house in Louisville, Kentucky. It's been great, and I might even have ... living in for the next two months, for my summer internship at EPFL (the ... , in the Laboratory for Neural Microcircuitry. I'll be helping with the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  and sunny it was here. Apparently in San Francisco (where we're all from ... thing that the last time they visited was in August.) Anyway, I was in ... from Phi Sigma Kappa's house in Kenmore Square, where I drank free

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) on blood, he drew blood from the head TA in front of the entire lecture in 10-250. So basically, this class is designed to teach us ... , carbohydrates and how they exist in the body. So far, it's been pretty good

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is covering the material that it should be. Mugho Pine asked: If you come in ... you'll want to design efficient algorithms, etc. If you were in another

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my ... destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not ... doing quiz bowl in high school, even though I'm not on the MIT College

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  become awash in color (thanks in part to that unusual snowstorm last week ... . While I'm not technically "faculty," many cool faculty members were in ... presidential election, Massachusetts public schools, university riots in the '60s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? Today is the final exhibition day ... of artwork from MIT's collection. Artists represented in the collection ... Andy Warhol Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Course 16: Aerospace Engineering in college. Her hobbies and interests ... , science, reading, and, yes, singing in the shower. Currently, she is trying ... releases, huh? In other news, I have found my long-lost twin, Dora. You have

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005