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  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  temperatures (it hit 62 degrees F today, just shy of 1932's 65). But we were inside, happily working towards admitting the Class of 2011. Tomorrow, the ... As Ben has noted, we have begun the early action selection committee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... tomorrow night, Joanne will be competing with 16 women for the title of "Miss ... -Jo the best of luck this weekend!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  cannon blast and the faint smell of gunpowder. Because in Seattle, these ... unsuspecting passersby of his beer and chips, and smile for pictures. So if the ... and seaplanes. Of course. The nautical flavor of Seattle isn't too

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  particularly notable. On the other hand, knowing all of the South Dakotans who ... ="63598" image2="63599" image3="63600" /] Undeterred by the comments of the ... responses from all of them. Here is the cast of characters we have: Natalie

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2026!

  

  a war with the feral bunnies of Camberville so they don't eat all my ... west and reclaimed my throne as the person who posts the blogger ... a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  headlong into the warm, humid embrace of the Fifth West kitchen. I simmered a ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more pressing Ideas Of The Now pop into my head. Today, the pecking order ascended

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  . "Distinguish" can mean "win every math award ever offered by the United States of ... school that offers *any* AP classes. Basically, the goal of the admissions ... deadline?" or "how many letters of recommendation do I need?" Please ask the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... no idea what any of those words meant). Sometime over the summer, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... has a long history of astronauts: More than one-third of the nation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  . Instead of having an actual intro, I'll cut to the exciting stuff. So, here ... impression was, "Wow, there are a lot of stairs." I live on the 4th floor of ... . Macgregor isn't the hallway-style type of college dorm. Each group of 6

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  (here is a subset of the group at Dylan's Emerson recital): To crazy original compositions (here they are winning MIT's battle of the bands): To various combinations of the above mashed into each other: They

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  you ever want to see him again, you must meet all of our demands. The ... place it on the dining table of the 132 suite at precisely 12:10 AM on ... with your offering. The truth is, Baxter never really left you. Search

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West ... young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of Educational Counselors (ECs) too. The Seattle/Tacoma group of ECs obviously

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... -register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open until beginning of August, but the really popular classes will fill up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  the credit of a normal MIT class, but it's more than twice the fun - and probably relieves a good fraction of the stress accumulated from the more ... -raising ability (read: badassness) to get more people to come to the show. One of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  Random Hall also allow cats to wander the halls of floors designated as cat ... suite/floor/hall, or will they return to their rooms only at the end of ... understand how the physical space of a dorm impacts one's social life. This is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  -seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by ... stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and ... Transnational Cultures. Video of the latter is available in the Language Learning

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U ... of Boston were cancelled, so after arguing with the American Airlines customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018