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  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  , 1999, a nine-year-old Anjali Tripathi '09 appeared on the children’s ... heading into the final round. She faced the prompt, "It’s 277 miles long, it’s up to 18 miles wide, it’s 6 million years old & at a given time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  WILL BE IN THE TEENS TO LOWER 20S WITH GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS CAUSING

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  . It’s a binary patch capability that is highly automated,” said Ts

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I don’t usually like to post these kind of “on-the-whim” entries (I’d write more, but I’m still finishing 2 psets), but I believe this is an important part of MIT…

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

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  , even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s ... from Victoria’s Secret to Sarvodaya, a Sri Lankan group that ... year and as one of Glamour’s “Top Ten College Women”

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  in Lobby 7…” Marilee Jones! Just because she’s ... lunch, and some Asian snacks and MORE BUBBLE TEA (I think it’s just ... weekend, it was insane). Oh btw, apparently there’s this myth that the

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  additional lectures The World’s Numerical Recipe, The Origins of Mass and the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now ... rhymes!) There’s never any harm in that. Chris said:: “Are you ... Laura Nicholson, because she’s so hot I want to take her derivative just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  know how you'd rate The Nance Effect Road Show. After you visit Norman H.S. there is only one place left to go... that's right, Norman North H.S! This ... no AC in the room and the outside temperature was in the high 80's

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  weekend, I went to Alpha Chi Omega (AXO)'s Lip Sync -- their annual

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other (it's, like, facebook-official dude!), which makes me enormously happy because (a) they're pretty much the same person so their banter is fun to watch

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  !" P.S. Does anyone watch Grey's Anatomy? If so, do you think Meredith

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  butt though, really. What are your holiday stories? (P.S. All questions

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  presidential election, Massachusetts public schools, university riots in the '60s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  ), Medieval French Literature (a grad-level class) APs: seven 5s, five 4s, one 3 ... National Honor Society, and have a 4.0, 5s on all your APs, 1600 (or 2400 now, I guess) SAT, 800s on all your SAT IIs, attend a summer program at a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens)High school: Benjamin N. Cardozo HSCollege: MIT ’86, mechanical engineeringFavorite thing about…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  into a boat p.s. I've just been informed that Ben scooped me on this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  things. Simply amazing. More soon. -B P.S. Shameless plug: I sing &

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  for U.S. students to sign up. Remember that we require, in addition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005