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  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  return to Random Hall began slowly. First came those who lived in MIT ... to be back home.    But all is not well. We hadn’t been in the ... resident eager to make mac and cheese. In a tale familiar to us all, the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  unsent drafts and attachments old and neglected enough to be hanging out in ... then went to the top floor of the tallest building in Cambridge (later that night, the lights in the building would be turned on to spell SOX

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  to for a while in an online AIM chatroom for accepted students, and I ... ’s Taqueria at 8:00 that night, and in the beginning it seemed to be going well ... four staples later I was in a taxi (my first!) on my way back to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn, meant waking up at 6:30 in the morning. Let me repeat that. Six-thirty in ... compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  akin to “thou” and “wherefore art”, except I’m not even that fluent in ... forward to reading my first-ever complete(ish) novel in Chinese (starting ... really challenged in a completely different way (excited to be scared

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  hospital in the Boston area until we were able to find them at two separate ... to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the bombing and are both in serious condition, at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the ... perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  Development Lab (D-Lab), whose trips to other countries in January (reread) are ... some reason, I waited until senior year to take the mandatory swim test, but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the decisions you’re looking for. 2022s are happening

  

  decisions are made available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use to sign into ... sure you are ready to receive your decision before signing in to

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not all heroes wear capes – but some carry tubes. 2021s are happening

  

  in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision ... . Next week, when decisions are made available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use

  • by Riri Williams '20
  • March 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.

  

  decided to make life interesting for us. Fortunately the primary tech folks are still in Cambridge, but needless to say, trying to coordinate all of ... It's been a nightmare of a weekend. We are all down in NYC for the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my ... exposure. The experience.") Well, I'll write a whole blog entry dedicated to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there ... to review all of these choices in the high school list from China ... . Due to the large number of applicants in China, we will not be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... happened to be in Cambridge for the weekend, called me up and invited me down

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  up, put them in the order that makes the most sense to read, and ... yourself stuck on, say, a college essay - maybe it's time to invest in some ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  comments, which I will respond to in an untimely fashion. I'll let you know ... /student interactions happened that I thought I could add to this entry. In 10 ... DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson is the first artist to have five top ten

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  in the Cambridge area.  The Red Line no longer delivers me to the ... probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do ... college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  got to meet Colin (MIT '10) whose application I read back in the fall ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers ... astronomer at Adler Planetarium in Chicago had put together a video to ... , “for music that is particularly meaningful to me.” He put his hands in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014