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  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  has composed scores for scores of major motion pictures, including the ... Memoirs of a Geisha. The paragraph in the program that listed other films ... a Geisha (Sayuri's Theme -- The Chairman's Waltz -- Brush on Silk

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  their dream a reality. MIT strategy * To transform the classroom ... the second game, you are a spaceship that flies around and shoots down ... take a shot. So, the more you shoot, the more you have to exercise. "Our

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  there's a bunch of kids who didn't get your spot. For those who didn ... for undergrad. You'll have the chance to succeed wherever you end up. It ... . :) I haven't done a Q&A in a while. I'm sure that the new admittees

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  on the book opening, so we stopped in for some water. They had a flavor ... in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  .391: Sustainable Energy for the next two weeks. I'm too lazy to link to it right now ... 't wait! Stay tuned for tales of my audition for The Amazing Race, the ... DID YOU KNOW? The highest ever cricket batting average of all time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... to do. And it was good. I'm working for the month at my UROP, reading ... experiments... and earning 12 units of credit for it. (You can do a UROP for pay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to the MPAA, the 1995 Mel Gibson classic "Braveheart" is "rated R for brutal medieval warfare." By the time you read this ... for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  scientific merit from the perspective of a chemical engineer. Well, if you snort a salt solution up your nose, I guess, by osmosis, the cells of your ... found himself stricken with a case of influenza, exhibiting such symptoms

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  the term, working desk is a great opportunity for me to make a little ... Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero. For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter ... ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail ... in the word really thinks like I do. That's always a safe assumption

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... opening-round game at Giants Stadium (I think) to cheer for the Azzurri ... bars with large televisions that faced the sidewalk, and for the last 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  't know where Clay got the idea he could fill out a pair of leather pants ... '07 (note the blue shirt) insisted on stopping at Dunkin Donuts and ... Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  demonstrations. Sodis uses a method of water disinfection intended for the ... our main projects is water testing and education. The community has a ... ?), well-intentioned development workers saw a need for water in an area with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The traditional wedding march is from Wagner's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a "barbarian wedding." There's going to be a great entry about all the fun Mitra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this ... huge vacation for me. I thought today I'd share a few class schedules ... 'm actually taking the class on junior/senior P/D/F, so I'll just get a passing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  ; eventually, we will pull it out and have a nice column of space for the fire ... Petite Anise, Haiti) that will serve (in porridge form) as a binder for the ... Use sand to seal the edges and let it carbonize for a while. Fast

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  in A-Entry for the summer -- actually, strictly speaking, I had been ... curtain? I want a rubber duck mat for outside the shower, too, but Adam is ... moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  a while. Conner 2 is the adorable youngest daughter, outfitted in a ... , a little frustrated by being the only boy and by being the proverbial ... becomes quite popular at school. Being a deskworker is the single greatest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  . In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture ... . Check out hacks.mit.edu for more, and here's info on the book Nightwork ... First up, The Economist profiled Professor Gruber's research on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him. Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... . What they can do is impose a fine on *not* consuming the good, but still

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005