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  TGIF! After a long week comes...a FEAST!

  

  Sorry for being MIA you guys! I've had a tough couple of weeks, but I'm back! Thursday night/Friday morning was filled with intense tooling, but ... with a few of the camera/editing software settings!

  • by Celena C. '12
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... Game in the middle of his lecture slides* and then inexplicably flings

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So ... are taken out of the envelope, given an official MIT Office of ... sort of document it is (this is why documents that were sent in the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  double bacon, two apple ciders, tater tots, and an extra order of fries ... not as hot, no humidity, and a pleasant trickle of breeze (MIT is also ... , Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, iRobot, or any of those other "MIT summer job

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle ... . But now, as a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll, we know that we will need to enroll only a relatively moderate number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  matching up all 1,063 of you coming this weekend with current student hosts ... . Rockapella is probably one of the most famous examples of a cappella.) Kim ... in our undergrad days). These are, of course, just a sampling of the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  of those ways is to attend MIT. Another one of those ways is to visit ... MIT into that day as possible, but that's kind of what MIT is like, right? Cramming a ton of stuff into a really short time period? I have

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in ... day here over a year ago I've heard some of the most entertaining bits

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  that much of your schedule will revolve around free food. Chess club not ... Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting involved. (I kid you not, a friend of mine actually kept a calendar of free

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  blog. Some of my most prolific blogging streaks are when I'm actually the ... it comes out to 40 parts. 4 questions? I think not! So, instead of ... form of pictures that show colorful things that have been happening

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech ... skimmed it, looking for any mention of chairs. Nothing on the front page. I ... instead of 450 — they will be wider, at least 20 inches instead of 17 inches

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But ... email from one of my coworkers, sending me information that might be ... now- Adelaide '09 is visiting Madrid! We walked over a huge portion of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an ... 's been a month and a week since I last posted. And it's not for lack of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle ... . But now, as a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll, we know that we will need to enroll only a relatively small number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  ), after you choose to matriculate. The DVD is a compilation of student-produced videos introducing each of the 17 (this year!) dorms at MIT (counting New ... gory details of housing options, cost, dining hall, housing lottery, REX

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  staying on The 5th floor of The West parallel. And, I was at The MIT. It ... icebreakers Thursday night (he's the one in the gray sweatshirt). The three of ... physically possible, and to visit all of the dorms. And so, we began our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In total, there are 600+ published events over the course of CPW (wow!). Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it ... but a pale imitation of the truth - valorous but vain attempts to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not ... entry, might I add, of like eight billion. Snively is totally making me ... never wanted to ask, like my favorite kind of chocolate bite-sized candy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  Are any of you high school seniors who are Massachusetts residents? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... amount of $2000. The deadline is May 30, 2008. For more information: http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008