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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  only wants you to be able to use maths to solve all sorts of problems ... ethnomusicologist. It's a fascinating examination of the relationship between culture and music. We've been studying the "griot" people of Senegal lately, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of my crap (believe me, a lot of it is crap) up a floor (onto Conner 3 ... that I have a lot of crap. 20ish trips and multiple breaks later I had

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  to throw at her. This past weekend was an extended holiday because of ... , somehow, I spent all of Tuesday night trying to write a chemistry lab report ... amazing three-day conference, which was attended by hundreds of people

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  was on exchange, like all of Illinois got multiple snow days! Dang. For now, though, it's byooootiful. The kind of weather I'd like to ride my ... my bike, but I haven't seen it in any of the normal places I go, so I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who ... place called a library to get information. It was, of course, uphill both ... sent back radar images of the surface. We got to see the images shortly

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  So I just read Ben's post regarding the official release date of ... finals. And that kinda blows because nobody likes finals. (Thus, in lieu of ... talking about what to blog about.) Also, nobody likes the suspense of big

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  ...") Of course, this eliminates the chances of getting a second opinion, and ... senioritis or my loathing of AP Stats and yes, I would go see my doctor if she ... talk, I immediately started taking care of myself. Hello, throat lozenges

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  'm posting my own tale of being admitted last year. Since this is the second ... chunk of this, solely because I can. Three people from my school applied ... and great, Neha had gotten in! But what about the two of us? What was

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Paula Abdul is not African-American. She is of Syrian ... , mostly seniors. I forget the exact name of the event right now, but the point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high ... . We talked a lot mostly about what we've been doing outside of school ... webmaster, Odyssey of the Mind, marching band, writing awkward blog posts

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  of the mail/website, you can get an idea for the "vibe" of each college. The colors, graphics, and images provide an impression of life here ... , etc. - and strive to make each aspect of them representative of some

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  Delray Beach. Masakazu Toshikage, the consul general of Japan in Miami ... suburban Lantana. A resident of suburban Lake Worth, he will be attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., this fall. He plans to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us ... one of your comments, and I can't answer every question right now, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  the answers. I used to save up questions and answer a bunch of them at ... about varsity athletics. I filled it out and mailed it in on the day of ... MIT. (Although I had clearly documented the MASSIVE amount of time that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT, take my academics seriously. There are also a number of I'll say

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  rained for the majority of the week and everyone generally stayed indoors ... . While I rested most of the weekend, Sunday proved interesting. Join me for ... Sidney Street, the location of the ubiquitous Star Market and the Hotel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  of us there and each of us preferred a different movie. So, we each ... of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round of the bracket and unanimously lost to it. Sorry, Julie Andrews fans

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening ... ! Ruth's room before phase one of painting, with a fresh coat of Institvte White put on this summer. After several hours of taping down old copies

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  "smoking" doesn't mean that you'll be submerged in clouds of smoke. People ... th West 2nd East 4th East And on to the point of the entry... One ... staves made of PVC pipe covered in foam, which is covered in duct tape

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  Name: Ben Jones Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of ... . They are all so different and yet you can look at any one of them and say ... collectively create - impossible to describe, must be experienced. Another of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005