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  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  weekend (now the #1 movie in the country): Lots of folks have been interested in 4-145, the Blackjack Team practice room. For example, Chris wrote ... right of the glass panels of the rooms (especially not in Building 4

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... the same time. In the last two months - days, nights, weekends, whenever - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I ... interest in physics, even if you don't plan on majoring in course 8. At the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things ... to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... -3 week period in the Easter term (there are 3 terms: Michaelmas, Lent, and

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even ... . Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes ... shovel the sidewalks (that is, if you live in the dorms. As Gwen '08

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  who had been participating in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange the last year ... I was in lab on June 9. Welcome to graduate school! (I actually chose ... tissue engineering applications. Aside from my time in lab, I've been

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  of the interdisciplinary nature of MIT. In 2005 MIT Professor Emeritus Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun ... MIT World. Keyser is also the author of a brilliant essay in Nightwork

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  the release of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series ... fandom in general and Harry Potter in particular have shaped contemporary ... arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the ... fridges in the snack room, we found that one of them wasn't turned on. The ... manager is in charge of dorm maintanence.) He told us the fridge was working

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... the hardest thing is which of them to explore. [...] We do things in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  , Friday CPW Registration Help Desk, 1-3pm, Friday "Voting" for Daniel in the Big Screw, 3pm, Friday A quick look in at the Ted Kennedy lecture, 3:15pm-ish, Friday Presentation of New Undergraduate Curricula in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and ... finish line wins as usual. More on that in my next entry. I promised last ... transition temperatures that allow you to burn information onto a CD. In

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  allowed in Senior House and no one wants to live with Institute White if ... for high school!!!!!!shiftone"; remember, I was in your place about two ... -Lori Parks' Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom in Kresge

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  way back in early September (yeah, remember that?) Imagine you ... dexterity. A fair amount of time in which you could slowly begin to understand ... . Your excellent teacher is back home in sunny, hurricane-prone South

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  change the world. With that in mind I started thinking about The Universe ... Laureate Frank Wilczek. Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 at the ... the audience, and he recites his sonnet, Virtual Particles in this talk

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MYSTERY HUNT! Live from Mystery Hunt!

  

  'm never eating either of those again. If you want to join in and remote

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  strongly discourage procrastination. The closer you send in your application ... & answers. For questions we haven't yet answered, please leave your query in ... questions posted in this entry's comments and answering them, before taking a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Candyland @ MIT Not your average gingerbread houses!

  

  My dorm’s study break tonight consisted of a Gingerbread House Making Contest. Armed with candy, graham crackers, frosting, and ingenuity, seven teams of Baker House residents built architectural masterpieces in only an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I ... . We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the ... ,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  Virginia's scenic New River. And now it's starting to get cold here in ... a couple of construction projects in front of my door, which happens ... it is occasionally a problem. One guy is drilling holes in a glass

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006