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  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  gathered not only for a kickoff speech (announcing the theme: "Normalville ... exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT ... ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  several small balcony sections from which you can get a nice view of the ... and trudged to the BPL (Boston Public Library) for the John Adams ... Ivy League drama at the exhibit: For present-day Ivy League drama

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  vs. Spam as a stepping stone to the presidency. Still, I must say, I ... strong that I felt the need to express it in an avant-garde photomosaic on ... is a lovely picture, and I've been trying to find an appropriate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  -curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a ... cheating, etc.). You haven't changed yourself for the sake of getting into ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  AM to start sweating the onions for my award-winning apple cream of butternut squash soup. It was time for the nth annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake, a culinary "competition" for which my floor routinely cranks out about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  too timid to ask the waiter for change. It's truly a beautiful disaster ... it take for the ball to come to rest? With a little 8.01 (Mechanics ... for a one day trip. Well, as Ling's itemized bill clearly shows, it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... Juggernaut, b****!" Also, there was a preview for Snakes on a Plane. Between ... other way around. 7. Also, for all the hype, I think that Angel was in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  's entry -- this is a challenging time for the MIT admissions office, and ... Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... the unlucky terminal that said, "If you found a brown notebook or the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  smell one thing. Today I was booking a flight to London for Ling '07 and ... Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go ... sound interested in a game that her boyfriend plays :}} Well, the answer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out ... confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter ... . The whole college application process is one of back-and-forth decisions

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  the local 7-11, well, the local one that wasn't shut down last month for ... purcahsed a lottery ticket in my otherwise typical suburban life. So, on the way out of Giant, on an impulse, I stuck a dollar into the PA Lottery

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  '07 to give a presentation on all the opportunities that a MISTI ... lab after the career fair, but I saw a poster in Lobby 7 that said ... the Beaver was presiding over a platter of delicious chicken wings and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  groups, it's a lot more interesting to cook for myself. By the way, I hate ... dorm, Burton-Conner, has a full kitchen and suite lounge for every 6 ... like 60,000 calories a day, but at least it followed the basic principle

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he played a key role in ... Dheera Venkatraman, a crafty MIT student, has just completed the latest ... . He's gone through a series of various door-opening mechanisms over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of ... my archives, Nicola '07 rented the entire trilogy from our dorm last ... during finals week and we did get into a heated debate about the and the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  Italian cars for the Grand Prix within a fifty yard radius of the Freddie ... except for the teams. So, I planned a 17-hour trip to Switzerland to see a ... good; I didn't have time to stick around for a night at the opera, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East ... a wooden Godzilla monster that carried jugs of water. By the time the ... cool out there in the courtyard: This interesting spinning ride, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... numbers, the admit rate for applicants who had interviews (or whose

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  ) if one went to MIT for undergrad. My friend Fadam '07, a course 8 ... talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A ... the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  for a good cause.) ----------- 7/29 EDIT I don't think the admissions ... mail, but that was back before MIT had the technology in place for online ... for fun.) "You can't make MIT love you if you don't [write a good essay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005