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  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  MIT Student Center who happen to read this blog and remember that one ... , however, accurately reflect the views of the author. Much to my disappointment, nary a single spambot showed up to the CPW Meet the Bloggers night

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the ... about twenty-five minutes. It seems like the right time to start an ... /D/F, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can take up to two classes on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to ... telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle. Over Kresge. I hope you got to see this, it's a pretty incredible sight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be ... groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz music to ballroom dance. I bring this up because, last weekend, a friend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the ... RA there (basically, Residential Life funds cool events I want to run ... ). I also helped run the Assassins' Guild "Guildcamp" (Paul has to report

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  House, had a holiday dinner on Saturday night! (We're supposed to have a ... 're supposed to be International House, after all! =D Afterwards, we also had ... card to Boston Tea Stop (the closest bubble tea shop from MIT - in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  , they were all venues of festivities to celebrate the Glamour Top 10 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not ... inspired and ready to accomplish our goals (the "girl power" spirit was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... campus copy center) to be copied -- 1000 doubled-sided, folded copies are ... : The 100th student arrives! 9:55am: Snively! 10:30am: It's starting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April ... completely forgot about this until Kel '10 walked up to me after our 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  physics psets which I'm just a little psyched about. So to share my ... Special Relativity with a brief intro to General Relativity is 1) a physics ... case you want to pop by with a muffin and say hi. Don't forget the muffin

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Jackson originally worked on the soundtrack to ... got lost on my way to 6.003: Signals and Systems recitation on my first ... major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  recapping to do. This is the most awesome picture I took this summer (the bag ... connected to Star Market, where most MIT students buy their groceries if they ... we can drive you back to your dorm with them. Oh, and we'll pay for it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  Happy International Left-Handers Day yesterday! I've never had to deal with righty desks before, so if you see me beating a chair to ... that says "We're doing this to really learn!" to me. Everything was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... things to come from this group in terms of information is the international financial aid list [XLS] [PDF]. OACAC's Doug Thompson works hard to regularly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  everybody knows happened there really got to me. But as our English ... . Somebody remarked that it was impossible to get by the Brandenburger Tor ... didn't want to turn. That sucked eggs. So we asked the lady sitting there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  seriously and hurried over to get pictures before things were taken down ... types like to remain anonymous. Mostly because they're usually doing something illegal, and also because it's part of the Hacker Code of Ethics to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  season has been horrible. Sigh... it's been my dream to go on The Amazing ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can balance out my weaknesses. That is, you need to be able to: 1. Drive like a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and ... Random Hall laundry server that lets you know whether or not to make a trek ... ) 2nd West using an internet ordering site to save precious seconds when

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to bore you all to death with an insider's look on some more specific ... making a completely awesome aid sheet for 3.091... ...and then you go to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005