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  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  - helped call the Early Action pre-frosh. Yes, all 522 of you! I'm not sure ... not, and (if necessary) when would be a good time to call back. Most of ... to the best of us. Alina '11 and Jon work on the computer as Snively

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  answer and provides hints if the student does not know how to approach the ... the ruckus that ensued: Disclaimer: This does NOT happen on a daily ... available credit." Me: So all that work and I still got 0% for the Escape

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  ; and a shower. Not sure exactly why this is here, but it's probably part ... full of woodworking tools, but apparently not. A couple of Hobby Shop members work on a table they're building. But no matter where you go

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  guard. I'm not completely sure why I enjoy color guard so much. I think it ... here!" He just nodded with a sorta "I know, let's not screw this up ... now, I plan on focusing on where I am now, a hard working student at the

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  Neo: You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake ... Ben rocked out (unplugged) with some great guitar work. The crowd went ... how could I forget the Beaver's (MIT's beloved and oh-so-cute-yet-not

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  real sport and does not involve costumes or beating people with steel ... thought I'd see, and certainly not at MIT. Actually, there is an entire ... having an appropriate understanding of how pro wrestling actually works

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  around anyway. (The way Mystery Hunt works is that the first team to find ... . Of course, not everyone is as insane as I am. Plenty of them went to ... use Firefox (to IE's 12.83%). I'm not sure why, but that statistic

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  . Not a chance. Nope. For example, there was one guy who set-up a webcam ... mechanism, but it worked for a few days.) Finally, I got tired of racing home ... experience, make sure to obey traffic laws and try not to give yourself a heart

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  work, we're having another party with cakes and coffee. Not to celebrate ... and as long as it's not something really popular like Pistol or Yoga

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

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  Schwartz / The Weekly Beat Sulinya Ramanan has not yet completed high school ... Hero award is not the first accolade that Ramanan has received. Last year ... define better what her project was and talk about her work in a more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  's birth house, which was closed by the time we got there. Not that there ... Miserables. Jerome gives me a ride to work most mornings, but the night after ... cuisine is? Well, hot dogs, duh. It's not a barbecue without hot dogs

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  think I said candy buckeyes, which are not ethnic so much as delicious ... I went to work for about a half-day before taking our bunny, Abby ... bus. (I will note that this trek would not be considered particularly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  . I'd worked very hard my entire school career, taken the tests, done ... is not what they were thinking, but what I was thinking. Was I actually ... ? I think not. So here's my challenge for all of you who got in: 1

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  Machine", and hopefully it will be working by the time you get here ... three prefrosh in suite lounges (um, but not that one, which is covered with Adam's airplane stuff) so they can be together and not have to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  . According to MFA website: "From the late works of Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and ... where I had to leave the arena towards the end. Now, I am not the type to ... weight about 3000 lbs and moving them around is not an easy task.) All

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  voltage difference appears because the Kapton is an insulator and does not ... Treatment Service. Since CERN is a research facility and not a foil producing ... continued through the summer, where she mostly worked on using scanning

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is ... decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake ... , a typical sophomore-level Chemistry class. Not only that, but

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

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  't exactly ideal. But that's how scheduling works sometimes... the schools call the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... at Tangerine. Not cheap, but I'd been eating junk for a week so I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  really expect to happen. So, I was sitting at work on Friday afternoon ... the most famous bakery in Boston, if not the entire world, Mike's Pastry ... 's a physical and architectural marvel, but if I'm being honest, not the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  So, being an incoming frosh, there's really not much I can talk about ... to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... happy in any of those 3, so it'll all work out okay. In fact, during CPW

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005