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  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we ... - it will indeed be in mid-March, but Mail Day depends on a variety of factors, one of which is how long selection takes. And as you know, we

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  front half of its body, and the child just kind of licks it off arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now ... was the property of my Ukrainian downstairs neighbor Albert. Tip: Once

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  Tonight's episode of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel will show ... ," which included such classics as the "Winnebago of Science" and the "Flammschmeisser." And, of course, you can catch Ankur '03 on Beauty and the Geek 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  The annual Mystery Hunt (history here) begins tomorrow at 12:17pm in MIT's Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here one of last year's most clever puzzles (this was just one of 114

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say that I will probably not be posting anything of substance here until at ... pictures of the new 5th East kitten on it. While I am busy in testing hell

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  confused about the name of 14.41. I have heard it at different times called ... is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... as I love Triscuits, but sleep is one of them. Okay I'm losing focus

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  of Sam '07, a nationally honored engineer) to hear a musicologist ... experience" of his life. BREAKING NEWS: A video about MIT's "Sex and the ... Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) 2005 with Laura Stuart (head of the class and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  middle of term can be just like any other week, or they can be ridiculous ... instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds interesting rather than what's easiest. So, of course, since I exhibit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  . It's generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage with a healthy dose of comedy thrown in. So when I saw a headline about a ... .C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes supposedly defended the city of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e ... Wednesday and I've had each of them once by now, so I'll give a quick rundown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of clothing, has now taken to paying an entourage of four Japanese girls to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he ... the index finger of his right hand. All 17 of his grandkids knew what ... 's spend this time examining the lesser-discussed problems of these surveys

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the law of sines! This is gonna be a tough puppy, but I think you guys can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  I will continue with the series of photo entries -- they take some time to put together, and I haven't been in front of a computer much. Hope all is well and enjoy these fleeting weeks of summer :-)

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ... typical nerds? A. Definitely not. Many of us are very atypical nerds. Q. No ... how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket ... office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and ... session on Bain & Company, a consulting firm. A lot of MIT graduates from

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am ... give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party. Here's the ... , Daniel, Mitra, Allison, and Kevin in real life! There will be food (of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  of decisions was ages ago (due to the fact that last week felt so very long). Sometimes quiet is good. A lot of the snow melted this past weekend. I'm seeing the first signs of spring. What better way to welcome

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005