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  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
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The youngest known meteor impact crater in the world is located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo of the Day – Installment #1 Photo of the day #1

  

  While I try go get in the swing of things with the start of the semester, I'll begin what I hope will become a new tradition (pending the availability of interesting enough photos. Here's the first one and I think it

  • by Bryan
  • September 7, 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 ... 's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of ... . The "nightclub of [my] dreams" is along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, which is roughly the equivalent of the Esplanade in Boston, except it's on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  I, along with 25,000 other people, found myself in Golden Gate Park ... /PG&E for sponsoring my participation in the walk. (... and my shirt ... an AIDS Walk in Boston, and on the morning of the event, a bunch of us

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  pack in a few short days. Speaking of packing, April and I made a pretty big mess while we were in the process of putting things away. We get a limited amount of storage space in Burton-Conner and only had access to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended for students interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent ... .025J D-Lab: Development Issues in international development, appropriate

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... dollars in credit card debt, because they were like 'Oh man, look how cool ... 4-year-old account reporting in good standing come ... 2010. That

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one. My mom ... 's put it another way - if 200 million people try to register votes in that ... the three contestants essentially tied; the difference in votes was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Competition Tomorrow Better than Battlebots! 2.007 competition tomorrow!

  

  Alright everyone, tomorrow and Wednesday are the days I am SURE you have been waiting for. In the Johnson Athletic Center at 6:30 pm, we will be having the first round of the 2.007 competition. Wednesday at 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below ... *stunning* rings, we had dinner in an adjacent room. There were a bunch of stations serving different food, one of which served mashed potatoes in

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

  CPW Wrapup Final thoughts on Campus Preview Weekend 2006.

  

  ? It was great to meet so many of you! See you again in the fall =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Caltech, Bring IT on Just some harmless rivalry...

  

  From the Caltech homepage: Caltech Pranked by MIT Today MIT pulled one over on Caltech today. MIT students stole a 130-year-old, 1.7-ton cannon that has been on the Caltech campus since 1972. It now sits in a

  • by Bryan
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  , which she just read... in German. She and Sam '07 should discuss its major themes... in German. She introduced me to her housemate (at Student House ... Student Street in the Stata Center. "This year's jury consisted of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006