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  Friday A day in the life.

  

  class so big that people sit in the aisles.. of 10-250 (note: chairs in 10 ... a scavenger hunt and eating lots of food. Keri and I wish we were boys ... (Keep asking questions! I'll answer them next entry.) 9:30 AM: Woke

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  seriously feels as though I spent more of last week in dance practice than I ... In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of ... dance as I did. As the host school, we didn't actually compete in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  producing and is rumored to also be in the film. I don't know if you caught ... Chairman of the American Conference on Diversity. I'll be answering more ... A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  Conference I attended last Saturday as part of Women's Week Here are organizers Neera '06 and Janet '06 with volunteer Kriti '07 Women meet in ... lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Returns Butterless popcorn and a little magic.

  

  Pending recovery from my illness, in a few hours, I will board a bus to head here to watch this movie in IMAX. I'm a "little" excited ... waited for the bus, but it was kind of cold so we did the group huddle. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  realize that I have ten pages of thermodynamics ready to turn in to my TA in ... bunch of undergraduate minions - I mean, employees - to help out with the ... in the Building 12 Athena cluster, where I've been working to finish up

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  .60 in depth, doing zillions of practice problems and perfecting my already ... taking catnaps and eating cookies. I've managed to get a few experiments in ... Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something ... 11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  another. i don't believe that friendships are defined by length-of-knowing. but this class of people is, i suppose, special in that we entered mit ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of ... application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Understandably, you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of ... him when he sliced me in the face! Then I beat him up and kicked him ... .S. When I first read the title of your post, I thought you were going to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say ... of a scientist she was until I read the book. Hell, I didn't even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• 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 ... compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I've got at least four entries that are in various stages of being writ. I don ... , the monkey pressed another button in front of him, but I couldn't tell

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  squishing around in. I think that's the worst of it. The first thing I did ... cheap and easy to order in bulk. I reckon there were a total of close to ... day. I had a lot of friends in this graduating class. It was weird. So

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  students do these programs. Like I said in my earlier entry, a summer of ... chose for the majority of my summers in high school. Reading, doing sports ... further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave ... /Writing Experience We are looking for people who can communicate in a compelling ... commonplace. If you haven't traveled much, put yourself in the role of an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the ... the powers of Course 16 in the form of Raul '10 to back me up. Arun ... around us. I disagreed, pointing out that the bits of whole peanuts

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  Hi, everyone! My name is Emiko, and I am one of the new bloggers :) I ... thought I’d give you guys a glimpse into the life of a student-athlete here ... sports teams, and a whopping 25% of students will participate in one during

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... means in english." i closed my eyes, unable to continue. ... I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008