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Blog / Academics & Research
Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte
made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... companies from tiny startups to Microsoft had brought in, to the Tesla coil ... not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having -
Blog / Events
LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.
Massachusetts, allowing students the opportunity to fully engage in the leadership ... What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common ... takes place over IAP. Participants will be asked to wrestle with such -
Blog / Extracurriculars
MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…
were holding five hostages in an abandoned prison, and they were to ... and my buddy. We were then searched and told to wait in a nice warm bus ... outnumbered 4 to 1. However, in the end, they couldn't hold the position. We -
Blog / Events
Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.
Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of ... for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... residents, she's not here to take classes or do any research. Primarily -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…
, Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many ... developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when -
Blog / MIT Life
Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...
. Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes ... , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even -
Blog / Uncategorized
[guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident
return to Random Hall began slowly. First came those who lived in MIT ... to be back home. But all is not well. We hadn’t been in the ... resident eager to make mac and cheese. In a tale familiar to us all, the -
Blog / Admissions
Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.
to for a while in an online AIM chatroom for accepted students, and I ... ’s Taqueria at 8:00 that night, and in the beginning it seemed to be going well ... four staples later I was in a taxi (my first!) on my way back to the -
Blog / Challenges
Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…
hospital in the Boston area until we were able to find them at two separate ... to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the bombing and are both in serious condition, at -
Blog / About Decisions
Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened
There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the ... perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep -
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Blog / About Decisions
These are the decisions you’re looking for. 2022s are happening
decisions are made available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use to sign into ... sure you are ready to receive your decision before signing in to -
Blog / About Decisions
Not all heroes wear capes – but some carry tubes. 2021s are happening
in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision ... . Next week, when decisions are made available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use -
Blog / Admissions
MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.
decided to make life interesting for us. Fortunately the primary tech folks are still in Cambridge, but needless to say, trying to coordinate all of ... It's been a nightmare of a weekend. We are all down in NYC for the -
Blog / Admissions
Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.
date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there ... to review all of these choices in the high school list from China ... . Due to the large number of applicants in China, we will not be able to -
Blog / MIT Life
Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!
I used to play Pokemon. I won't lie. One could possibly say that ... decided that she wants to catch them all with her camera this summer; I ... . However, I did not wear a duck tape tuxedo to my prom. Maybe I'll go to the -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!
Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers ... astronomer at Adler Planetarium in Chicago had put together a video to ... , “for music that is particularly meaningful to me.” He put his hands in -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...
likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... traveled to Europe from the US by steamship Times in running events were ... his MIT education in marine engineering to run the very successful -
Blog / Events
Mystery Hunt 2006 announced
exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in
