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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable pleather chair in my dentist's office waiting for a cleaning while reading the latest issue of Blender magazine (Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  the workload. This is evidenced by our test subject, Jon, in Exhibit A ... , start locking themselves in their rooms, and episodes of people screaming down the hall in hysterics increase. How does Jon react to the added

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to finals. And that kinda blows because nobody likes finals. (Thus, in lieu of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to ... for you, I've been taking photos for my lab reports in 2.671. This ... laminar flow of nitrogen in a long tube. Notice all the wires. Each lab

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times ... true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the ... zoo creatures, nobody's quite alive until after 10 AM. We in fact almost

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  So where have I been? Short answer: doing work. Or just at work. I just got a UROP doing chemistry and molecular biology-related stuff in the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  Hi folks, As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous ... was her prefrosh! I’m also Melis’ little sister in our sorority, Alpha ... another of the wonderful living groups at MIT. I live in McCormick Hall, MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. I sat in ... extremely difficult. In the end, we were very happy to be able to admit these students from the waitlist -- in an email to the office, Stu wrote, "These

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and ... often, is "I don't judge, I just take pictures." In this case, I feel like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  experiences I’ve had this year. When I got into MIT back in December, I ... there, so that’s a pretty good sign I’ll fit in. :) I also ... "meditation room" full of balls, which I loved being in. I spent a lot of

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Boston Marathon has only been cancelled once in its 111-year history, in 1918. That was because of World War 1. So it's not ... out the weather report in mid-April and this is what I get... I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  strongly interested in the arts, politics and literature? Irena similiarly ... /enjoyment in the work and what you're learning. Is that true? (I dearly hope it ... two amazing days of skiing in New Hampshire - a bunch of the ESG kids

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Seeing that my experience at CPW will be very different than that of a prefrosh, I'm inviting

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  - no breakfast from mom in the morning - managing my own money - no ... yourself to new ideas. For me, personally, in the summer leading up to the ... my home for college. Additionally, having lived in Miami when I was

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  radio in 2006, even though she only released one single: "Walk Away ... -o-grams," but my good friend Ben is in Boston this weekend visiting some college ... wrote when I was seven: Seen in Winter Never Summer Oh, he's melting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  know, people living here or in EC used "Haus" as an inside joke ... be where the front desk was until renovations in 1996, when it was ... ) it was taken in September, back when it was still warm and sunny out

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  . This is a bad attitude to have in all regards, because while it's great ... complain about how her hall's TV only plays in Spanish. I myself found MIT ... out of Next if you move here in your first year - but that's a story for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  fill in specific holes. Recent additions include Prof. Eric Grimson, our ... biggest weekend of the year, so we begin working on it months in advance ... manage to deliver them to me in html-friendly ASCII). So when you see a new

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  about the Hunt, one of my favorite events of the year. In short, Mystery ... hints and thoughts in the comments thread that might help. Don't stop, you ... dormmate Jenn -- have in store for us! 12:40pm: The Kickoff has ended. Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007