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  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in my other entries, so hopefully many of you are avid players by now, if ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  Have any of you read “The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT”? If ... moments that reminded me of things that White had talked about, including ... have also come across several of the professors that White mentioned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  stumbles over my roommates' chairs, I was out of the door of my fraternity ... across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or so, I think I speak for us all when I say it was “one of those weeks.” Not that almost every week at MIT isn’t one of those weeks (is that one

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  of physics is trying to figure out which angle is which? I mean, you ... figure out the component of mg in the direction of the inclined plane ... ’s always my least favorite part. Of anything. Ever. Well, this particular 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  with bittersweet. Trust me when I say that I deal with all kinds of ... those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at ... /her life" doesn't work. Of course, if you have the right amount of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... of Women Engineers (SWE), only 19.7% of undergraduates in engineering ... crunching the numbers myself to be sure. At MIT, 35% of engineering majors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  . Today was my first day of work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH ... on that later. But first, a State of the Institvte address. The school year ended with a fizzle. I must admit, I love rolling out of bed on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  by the capital Greek letter omega. The inverse of resistance is ... -down letter omega. Yesterday I had one of those quintessential MIT moments. I ... this summer. There was some great food courtesy of the MIT Faculty Club

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ... 't really done any laundry or things of the sort, so I had to rush. Fortunately, none of the banks I went to seemed to have Euros so I had to take

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the component of force that my will would experience tangent to the wall during

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  if it comes from a box or consists only of taco meat and cheddar cheese ... (like that I'm good at this kind of thing or something) or the amount of ... . Lunch: Salami and cheese sandwhiches have been the staple of my lunch

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... of my very favorite things in life, which is somewhat sensible if you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... challenge. Neither of us had a tape measure, so we did what any good MIT ... , my roommate, hard at work measuring the length of a wall.) Of course

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  of work to be done. So, you may ask, what are we up to right now? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds ... 'll move the information sessions out of the admissions reception area and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  of my favorite parts of events like this is getting to meet some awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the ... to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005