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  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... saving time didn't help me leave the office before dark. Most of you should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is ... complaints, they are still present. -Watching Dramashop's performance of Suzan ... of term. -Because it is due tomorrow afternoon. -Yes, this is insane

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at ... "how is it possible to construct heavy objects out of things that don

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  project done for one of my classes, 2.671, Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific ... of course, everything in science is easier said than done. Now for my

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... lived in a boarding house in downtown Lausanne. There was a lot of construction outside my window. On one of my first days in Lausanne, I visited

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... busy/lazy. Despite that, I played a lot of tennis and it was my basically ... 's beautiful Zesiger Center (a.k.a. the Z Center) or by Memorial Drive. Of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  , super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... 'm sure that a bunch of people going to the beach isn't enough to supply the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  kidding about that one...sort of.) Actually, receiving my ring made me feel ... , I put on my rings, along with those of my friends, Anna, Shaye, and ... *stunning* rings, we had dinner in an adjacent room. There were a bunch of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good ... meals a day and undoing an entire month's worth of exercise. Bring it on

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

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT. Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4 ... available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won ... Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Courtesy of the MIT News Office: Schrock was cited by

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust" -- graduates of years past that still hang around the hall -- which reveal all sorts of things of interest when you poke them. But along with all the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  powerpoint presentation thousands of miles away. I remember hearing talk around the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help ... deceive you. Kresge is 1/8 of a sphere. I once walked by it and remarked to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don ... really have to happen?" Those of you who plan to be engineers, perhaps you

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie ... one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in ... an awful lot of meals in a dining hall. Notice that I said "a dining

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Tomorrow, we will mail out the first of four batches of letters ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for ... different member of our staff will visit different areas of the country. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get everything together so that I have the majority of my applications completed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised ... do our own correlation studies," said Marilee Jones, the dean of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just ... issues such as suicide. I respect the sentiments of the original poster

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005