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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  final day of school in the comments, graduation day doesn't count unless ... worth of photos to put in my blog and writing my entries, I thought it ... accomplishment in a video game. -An awesome lab -A picture you feel best embodies

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three ... element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... I've broken many, many promises of various entries on this and that in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  about it a while back on my personal blog so if you're interested in more ... engine called "Wolfram Alpha." It's not like Google in that it doesn't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  :59pm, simply visit decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username ... decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. Admissions decisions ... click on the lost password link in the orange log-in box on the left. If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  . “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... am in bed. In just a few hours, fiziks will be done, And I will have ... : Early admits, in one year you, too, could be, Freshmen learning the truth

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  delivery specialist Ryan has just placed your pizza in his Domino-mobile as ... America, or something. In other news, this is what I see when I log in to ... residence in Massachusetts. All I had to do was bring a credit card statement

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in ... submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system. We have ... tracking system. They will submit everything in due time, and we will have it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow ... Birdhouse in Your Soul, blasting out of her boyfriend's speakers. This video ... Of Toolage, cementing its place in history. As long as there is MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  audience of this site. I support Snively 100% in wanting to have that ... or negatively), not something that needs to be worked out in real time ... process some of what gets said. My goal in writing that entry was a steroid

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me ... yourself in a nice room and do nothing but work. That's my plan for the day ... to answer in three hours. Goodie! I've decided to catalogue my studying

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  should arrive very soon! In the meantime, please don't forget to register ... care of this for you. Random fun: In this post I mentioned that Shannon ... best job in the world. And then I [think about the admit rate], and I

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

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  studying in France. We've been trying to chat all week, but the 6 hour time ... all time. Go read his archives. Seriously. Friday, 16:55 In response to ... "little black book" with lots of contacts in it. We've got to solve the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... , including bloggers, will be participating in the hunt, which begins at noon in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  About two years ago at school I was sitting in the computer lab ... video of 80 people, all dressed in blue polo shirts and khakis, just standing around in Best Buy, confusing every single customer and employee

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  , where every school in the entire county has been closed. San Diego County ... have been destroyed. From myself and all of my colleagues in Admissions ... with your individual circumstances, whatever they may be. Get in touch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• 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…

  

  Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... to pass someone who is driving in your own passing lane (which is ... travel in the same direction. You will cause amazing gridlock and your

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process ... it was awesome. They're in beta now, so if you run Windows (I don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and ... , the authority's research and development staff will be hosting us in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the ... . The first number after the dash gives the floor in the building, and the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  lectures at MIT. MIT World has been in operation since 2001 and today has a collection of almost 400 videos in its online collection (you can also find it ... one to be the first one to reflect on in this new forum. So, I thought

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007