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  Preparing for CPW

  

  Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you ... be fun, and you'll get to meet all of the students you've been reading ... some pictures from the past week over the next couple of days as sleep

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  when she ran out of unsweetened bakers' chocolate, so she chopped up some ... lot of things I was going to blog about. I was going to blog about all ... lost under the canopy of Allison's bed and checking out food options at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  singles from the same album (courtesy Mitra). You all left a lot of lovely ... all of my professors in a different way. I don't know, call it Stockholm ... ," and Professor Stephanopolous's impeccable handwriting. But most of all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  moderated by MIT Professor of Chemistry John Deutch. The talk is hosted by the ... served as director general of Saudi Arabia's main foreign intelligence ... . Deutch ran the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as Director of Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  the obvious need for exhaustive testing and the nature of the admissions cycle (and the cycle-dependent status of the MyMIT database), we will not ... questions on this topic until that time, as many of them will likely be

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  I'll leave you with some of the funny quotes from the weekend. Also, this week, I'll be highlighting some of the puzzles from the hunt. The ... jokes..." Brian: "The answer is SPEED OF LIGHT. Can I spell that? S

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  Pennsylvania, is an alumnus of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. I wonder if he ... premiere of Beauty and the Geek 2, which Matt's friend Ankur '03 is on. I don ... he saw my blog entry last August, regardless of what his bio says. Ha

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  that, yes, E=mc2. The new mayor of Edison, NJ, Jun Choi '94, was sworn ... Technology Review had a number of interesting MIT articles, including this ... most popular male name and the most popular female name of students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  . You would sort of think that kind of time would inspire me to study 5.60 in depth, doing zillions of practice problems and perfecting my already

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... carved the general form of a regression equation. James '08 thinks he ... display this masterpiece between the 1996 and 2000 National Medals of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  , for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier '08 and I decided to literally run circles around the dorm. The title of this entry was the last thing I heard Rick '09 yell as I skipped out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old ... 'm going to mix it up a bit, and give people's living groups instead of ... okay. Anyway, he is a former winner of the New England Division III

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  following: instead of me posting a topic and you responding, let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP. Here are the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  , considering that this show is always in danger of cancellation, I bet it ... 's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to ... aspects of academic life. The thing about tests is not really that they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  (Note of warning: this entry may be short, because I seriously ... kind of can't move my head. This makes sitting at my computer slightly difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  was also my first football game as a member of the world ... the entire show 30 minutes before the beginning of the game. In high school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  long lines of students. MIT students do not pass up free food. So ... can with photos of events that I attend. Until then, I'm off to enjoy the beauty of free food and bhangra. Word.

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  ), Communications Manager, Admissions 2) Daniel Barkowitz, Director Of Financial Aid 3 ... of Recruitment Green Circles - Objects: 1) Matt's paper bag, which ... is rumored to contain all of mankind's knowledge to date 6) Stu's water

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Pretty cool. And the winners of the ... reducing the radiation exposure of both patients and doctors the "Vac ... bunch of other cool "ideas"!   Photos from the judging session are

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

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  most of my time attending events and meeting prefrosh. Started with the ... & Erin stopped by and we stalked people using the satellite feature of ... you left in our office, informing us of this, has made its way to, um

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005