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  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be ... Boston with Dartmouth and Yale Quest Scholars. When I came for my CPW, the ... ’ll meet some great people and be convinced that MIT is the right place for

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  to you for my dad's desire to keep expired milk in the world a little ... home for spring break is the first breath of air I've had in a while ... electrophoresis for the rest of your life, you can absolutely handle accepting that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the Weather Channel's new ratings-driven non-scientific naming system for winter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  Stu, Matt, Nance, Daniel and I are all down in NYC for the College ... Manhattan, but I'm not complaining. That's one of the things I love about New ... blogging more frequently in November. In the meantime, here are a couple of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  . Members are actively engaged in advocating for and supporting the ... luncheon in the Flowers Dining Room at Maseeh Hall by the Dining Manager for ...  Questions for Caterers to assess their sustainability that I pulled off of the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  weeks to assemble the cannon, test it for safety and reliability, and scavenge the town dump (the social center of some New Hampshire towns) for stuff for the firing range And so came New Year's Eve night, New

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  formation of the United States - for three hours every week and pore through ... our opinions and tell her what the documents meant for ourselves, even ... MIT History Professor Pauline Maier makes the MIT homepage today with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  at MIT, a beautiful and cutting edge Laboratory for the Performing Arts ... will be an ideal locale for the experimentation, hard work and group ... Very frequently, we are asked about the humanities and arts at MIT. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  though it's blizzarding -- I have the answer for you: fleece lined tights ... The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  This week, the new MIT freshman class begins arriving for orientation ... than 1100 students who are all excellent matches for the MIT mission and ... amazing. The students are awesome! Let me tell you more about them... The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  , you get a zero for all the problems that you didn't submit before the ... : AHHH THIRTY SECONDS. What is the formula for escape velocity?! Zach: AHHH ... !! They'll give credit for the questions that we at least answered

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  than for some young researcher to be tagged "the new Einstein," so don ... do with his own achievements than the media's need for heroes. But maybe it's more than the media's need for heroes. Perhaps it is the next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  the vision of iHouse and the events that we have planned for the coming ... doing) for ESP! Anywhoo, the point is that some of our alums founded ... Splashes for so long and being the founder of Splash!, MIT ESP sends a couple

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ignition taught me something new. For the Spinning Arts club, I went to ... , and training for months, I learned to befriend the flame. Similarly, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  that I appreciated during finals week: For 10.213: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, we got four review sheets for the final. I know someone once ... sheets. The most review sheets I ever had for a class was 12, front and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  as I wanted. And the big plus, on Sundays I could bring a friend for ... coaster for the coffee I pretend to drink, reading thin newspapers like the ... like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for ... the attention, begged for pastries, and generally took advantage of the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  ;closed” and will not admit any additional students this year for the Class of ... It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and I ... this year. During this time, we've been waiting for all our admitted

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  of Those Times of the semester) the French House social chair, Emma '14, sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The subject was "Emergency Morale Booster Night" and the content was: - Salut la maison! I hope

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the ... Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies ... There are no undergraduate classes here at MIT over the summer

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010