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Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.
say "post it in Ben's blog so they know." As soon as he told me I moved
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Blog / Academics & Research
Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.
. Ohhh, it's a good feeling. Now, don't get me wrong. I am not a one ... to me when her class was reading Moby Dick and was asked to write an ... all the chairs in the microscope room are too short for me to see the -
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Blog / Academics & Research
Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!
Engineering) but this picture made me envious of everyone who is. The bridge is -
Blog / Admissions
Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.
. This reminds me that we haven't officially announced that all of the MIT -
Blog / Admissions
Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.
. ;-) ------------------------ Shikhar wrote: "Should I carry any special thing or portfolio with me when I ... wrote: "I think I'll ask the admissions office to consider me for ... January. What should I do and how should I proceed? Please, help me!" No -
Blog / Admissions
MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.
you have any questions, let me know. -B -
Blog / Events
PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…
"vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.
notable thing that happened to me this weekend was standing outside for 2 ... Nightwork, and that makes me happy. (It also makes April happy, because she says that now she doesn't have to buy it. See? April gives me food, I let -
Blog / Athletics
XC is Sexy
I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old, and I figure if it's appropriate for him to wear it, it's okay for me to blog it. On Saturday, I went with some friends to Franklin Park, in -
Blog / MIT Life
Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.
No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of light! I'm talking about what happened 100 years ago today. Don't tell me you don't know! (gasps) It's the WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS! Actually -
Blog / MIT Life
Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life
moving over in a few weeks, and our head lab tech had asked me to stop by the new building to make sure my proximity card gave me access to the ... says this is pronounced "rag-oo", and laughed at me when I pronounced it -
Blog / Admissions
Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.
's Steakhouse. This had been recommended to me by my uncle, who'd told me earlier ... me the critical thing going on right now in the admissions world is the ... complete with a cabaret show. AWESOME. Overheard from Edmund: "this makes me -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…
Once I reached Room 6-001, some nearby basement sights compelled me ... Requests, Pest Control..." these things don't strike me as complementary ... the main walkway, toward the staircase leading me to 66's lobby... I -
Blog / MIT Life
Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.
subjecting himself to this remedy, Jeremy came to me to ask if it had any -
Blog / Admissions
September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.
takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a ... initially concerned at that MIT would not have enough humanities for me, not -
Blog / Athletics
First Post A little about myself.
, but first allow me to introduce myself. After growing up in Queens, NY ... Csikszentmihalyi, which was recommended to me by my former professor Woodie Flowers ... was on the 1976 and 1980 Olympic teams — once told me he'd rather be 10 -
Blog / MIT Life
riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"
commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and ... reminded me of the good old days before I dropped 18.701, except with less ... happened to be in Cambridge for the weekend, called me up and invited me down -
Blog / Academics & Research
Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!
does not sound like a big difference to you -- but believe me, 60 units ... could tell me where I might order a (yummy) birthday cake for delivery to ... website is making me hungry for one of their ridiculously delicious brownies -
Blog / MIT Life
REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.
-house rush is going on, and then tomorrow, freshmen will get to use me as free