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  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  As per usual, CPW has again come and again, all of the prefrosh will be going insane trying to eat 500 lbs of food, watch people juggle with fire, run around campus at odd hours of the night, watch NextACT, and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  . Oh, and for those of you who don't speak numbers . . . 2 ... Manufacturing I. In this class everybody is issued a box of materials, taught some ... competitive robot for an end-of-the-semester competition. 2.00b = Toy Design

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  a bunch of reasons like cutting edge research blah blah blah you all ... do I mean by that exactly? Well since you asked, here is a list of ... . Seen lots of movies (prior to this, the last time I went to a theater was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other ... knows more about this than I do, but the gist of it is that Simmons has ... started. For a period of about two weeks they were CONSTANTLY outside

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  you are presented with a list of restaurants. The menu bar serves as a ... ." I "Viewed Menu & Ordered" The rest of it, well, if you care about ... different types of food you can have brought to you when you go to MIT. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  stepped out of Logan International Airport Saturday night was, "whoa, air ... a whole segment of my vocabulary that had lain on a shelf this summer. Well, most of my vocabulary (the English vocabulary, that is) did that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  of you haven't received your packages yet. Please don't worry - they ... care of this for you. Random fun: In this post I mentioned that Shannon ... to put all of this into some sort of algorithm or formula to determine

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  Hello, everyone. This is probably the first time anyone has heard of ... news! Our faculty, an amazing group of folks, asked how they could help ... our Professors about cutting-edge research, cool discoveries, and all of

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... chance (which happens to be very good coming out of MIT) to have an awesome and exciting life. When I first signed up for ROTC, I thought of it

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... each direction. Of these two, the one closest to the wall is the lane for ... still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  rate of 12.3%, or fewer than one of every eight applicants. We offered ... , when the decisions come out, I know you will feel a range of emotions. I ... . One of the things that make these blogs special is that there is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got ... small books on local dialects of Zambia. Though we didn't have much luck ... another minibus to Manda Hill, a strip mall that lots of ex-pats frequent. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  also celebrating his birthday today (along with myself and Ben's Mom, of ... little detail of my life, just because it's amusing to me. So Sam works the ... time, it makes me think of Clarissa Explains it All. Please, please

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out of five). But I'm less nervous about my grades this term than I have ... , Kentucky, at my mom's house. I'll be staying here through the end of the APO

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Blake Ross, who is kind of the inventor of Firefox, is ... .003. I ate a lot of stuffing today. But most importantly, like two weeks ... mechanics or string theory, for example). Two of these classes, 18.353J

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next ... where you can pick up a poster of the LSC schedule. As for freshmen, when ... Orientation, but then second term, you join the rest of the world and do things

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  The first wave of the Next Big Mailing (NBM) has been sent out (several hundred of them late this week; more will be mailed next week, be ... longer remember, the NBM represents the transition of the newly admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  of MIT's best fifth-year mathematics graduate student integralists. So ... . Which makes for 20 minutes of just not too much fun if you ask me. But ... that things started seriously rocking out. I had a list of my favorite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  some pretty nice "class 4" rapids on the upper part of the river. We had ... saw the aurora borealis. I'm a little too sleepy to blog about all of ... of it? Anyway, my dormmates and I had a passionate discussion about it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  . So last Thursday, one of my friends, Shaye, who has a radio show on WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the ... bit of everything, some Trans-Siberian Orchestra, some Mercury Program

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005