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• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  . My friend Tiffany '06 invited me to join her company's team, and Laura ... fundraising: This is a very important issue to me so I have set an ambitious fundraising goal. I want to do as much as I can to make a difference in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  's always going to be a tie. Voters just max out each contestant's phone lines ... 's put it another way - if 200 million people try to register votes in that ... , 100 million people who wanted to vote for him, and Kat and Taylor each

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... League school, a college with easy access to a beach, or one with a top ... , there's nothing cooler than living next to Fenway during the summer, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  away from the finish line, so if I can use the desire to see MIT people to motivate me until Kenmore, hopefully I can make it through that last ... Anderson's Race after the marathon (4/22). The former is to benefit Big

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  ://web.mit.edu/hillel/www/latke-hamentashen-debate.html Option 2: Tired of Ramen for dinner? Wish you could do something to make ... how to eat better when you have to cook for yourself, but actually ... graciously offered the use of her kitchen to allow Julie to make some dishes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not necessarily things that we are expected to do, etc.... and then when he spoke ... that there are still no answers to the most basic questions. Physics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people ... throughout the weekend. Finally, here's the answer to yesterday's puzzle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  window and try to guess what's just outside the contextual frame. I wish I had some more excerpts from stuff to post here. Regarding Handel ... IVMIT candygram to support a missionary trip to the Dominican Republic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  among "Outstanding Faculty" in the Business Week Guide to the Best ... -foundations of institutional change. In order to change practices that comprise their work and family lives, organization members need to modify the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  parents' forum) where parents were discussing the pressure to load up on AP classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

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

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  goes that you should not have to spend any money on food for at least ... been touched on yet. "/> Our CityDays project involved going to the ... advantage of our free rides on the T, we went to JP Licks. Susan Hockfield

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  being witty and down-to-earth. I am never afraid of talking about my loves ... love going to the ballet, eating famous Boston ice cream (such as ... Looney Tunes cartoons Advice about applying to college/MIT: Pay attention

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  In my last entry, I left you with this teaser: "I will reveal the #1 place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1 ... awesomeness that make me glad to be at MIT (not to mention projects like 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.

  

  posted in response to my last entry about raising siblings to be friends. It's truly something that I'll keep and refer to in the coming years ... schedule!) Needless to say, it's pretty awesome. Tonight is our one night off

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

  Two important reminders

  

  fast approaching. Today, Friday, April 29, is the regular deadline to ... for U.S. students to sign up. Remember that we require, in addition to ... cost, I recommend taking three SAT IIs in June. I encourage you to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  some students abused his time by never actually submitting the letters to ... letters written by other teachers. To deter this, he now charges $20 per ... abroad have figured out that they can call our shipping company to figure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  blog to show that there *isn't* a 'best way' to choose where to apply ... ; Several months back, I realized that I wasn’t “toying with going to grad school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  not raging against the machine, exactly, staying up late to write this; the machine is kind to me, has free seltzer and coffee in the break room ... ; two pairs of jeans; just enough socks, shirts, and underwear to get by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of designing and understanding often complicated solutions to important computational problems

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017