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  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you + Valentine’s Day card. End memo. First, and most importantly: BEN FOLDS IS COMING TO MIT. So every year…

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the Boston Pops…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Have you ever heard of The Game? I’ve referenced it several times in my other entries, so hopefully many of you are avid players by now, if you weren’t already.…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  So…there’s this Mystery Hunt thing…you might have heard of it. It’s awesome. It’s lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or keep working on those puzzles…

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Whew! I ran back from my field hockey game today (we won, 3-1! ya!) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every Thursday, some…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  Honestly, I’m not entirely sure. But I’ll tell you everything I know. I know that many of you haven’t heard yet, and that it’s enormously frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  There was a nice article in yesterday’s Boston Globe about the opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  s, you'll see what I mean soon!). On most weekdays, you can find me in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  wondering how you would consider high AP scores (5s and 4s) and relatively

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the "last word" in transportation. He had originally told his coworkers to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  My favorite room is a well-kept secret. I won’t reveal the location, but you can easily deduce longitude, latitude, and altitude from the view:     It’s good to be…

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and Sarah Kay Week 2: TableTop, Net Neutrality, and Complexity Theory Week 3: Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar Hello everyone, sorry for the three week delay…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an MIT student’s mouth are these: “You know what would be awesome?” followed shortly by “Wait…we…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  Tomorrow marks the return of classes, p-sets, papers, reading assignments, and a tangible lack of both time and sleep. Yup, second semester is about to begin. I’m taking the following…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  In case you haven’t realized it yet, I’m going to let you guys all in on a secret: MIT Admissions loves you. No, really. I know the L-word gets thrown…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  I was going to save this post for whenever my summer job had given me enough witty, engaging stories to constitute an entire entry, but in light of some less-than-important…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  As I’ve discussed on this blog before, MIT MedLinks are awesome. Got a headache? Have some Tylenol! Stuffy nose and a cough that just won’t go away? Sudafed, Robitussin, pick…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Madonna is 48 years old. Seriously. Guys, I need a favor, okay? You have to remind me to enter the PE Lottery, which starts tomorrow. I’ve forgotten…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam’s Mom’s beef stew, spinach with…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in the Z-Center (no, really) and I’m so disheartened by this that a commodius vicus…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005