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  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  ). Join us for an hour of relaxation, self-reflection, and personal growth ... meditation and an experience of guided visualization, a simple, nonsectarian ... This was a fantastic session, short enough to appeal to beginners, but

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  The World Cup Challenge was a lot of fun! No one got a perfect score ... freshman applications this past year in bold. Group A: Costa Rica, Ecuador ... all tied for the most correct, with 6. The mode was, I believe, 5, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  between Germany and Costa Rica on the big screen with a huge and rowdy group ... Challenge is meant to be just for fun, and an interesting way to see just how ... freshman applications this past year. A few notes: There are no ties, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  other planet attack us and force us to come together as a global entity to defend ourselves, it probably won't be a top priority for civilization anytime soon. I find this sort of depressing, but I find a lot about human

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  ! Hosting is harder than it looks! I have a newfound respect for Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Dan Patrick, and anyone else who talks into a camera ... four episodes into its trial run, "ZigZag is a periodic video magazine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous ... Building. There was a pretty plaque to go with the cannon. As you can see ... website. :) In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students: MyMIT Updated Important and cool new information on MyMIT: check it out now.

  

  Students admitted regular action have a whole bunch of new stuff on ... . Online Communities. There's a list with links to various online communities ... Registration. You can now register for Campus Preview Weekend. Make your travel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  looking for a challenge. So, anyway, I'm working desk from 12-2 AM tonight ... because it gives me a captive environment in which I basically have nothing ... taken a class that would help me to solve this quandary. Here are some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new ... , and set new goals for this cycle. I'm very excited to embark on my ... had lots of fun - including a hysterical presentation by an etiquette

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  week and a half. As always, my recent trip meant missing some cool events ... lecture, this time by Wolfgang Ketterle (though I had him for freshman ... directory (post your picture!), a list of local admitted student meetings

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  . Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection ... don't have to send in the midyear report? A. No, you must send in the midyear report. Q. Can I still send in extra materials? A. While it is too

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  a good fit for you. You will grow from that experience and from other ... It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to work. It was dark, and a bit chilly, but it's a big day, and we have a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... importuned for a word, which was characteristic, as usual. I was urged to speak

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  posting this blog [and being home for a week for Christmas], I listened to ... year some life I've engineered to the good for all my peers. Did you ... like this. videos with under a hundred views, from some regular person

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no particular order, of things we’ve been up to recently:  Studying for the GRE  Retaking the GRE ten days ago (and doing a little better than the first time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... a haircut at this place my brother recommended--the guy there said he ... then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot ... the entire length of MIT's main buildings.  And a few days a year, the ... hedges", which was a commonly used debate tactic in the 2012 United States

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  no longer have a 57-credit limit for the spring semester, nor do they fall under the A/B/C/No Record grading system that second semester ... assigned a departmental advisor, who can guide you through the course

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  suerte! :) ---- Some things I learned this semester: Here's a fun ... They Transformed New York. John Hopkins University Press, 1995. A 1907 ballad, "The Subway Express" depicted the Interborough as an arena for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009