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  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  right now is how it applied to me when I was finishing up my application ... snapped its head around and two evil, glowing orange eyes fell on us. I am ... cats out and about. Cam: I think that if it were just a tiny bit colder

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  long. Farhi explained how researchers from around the world, including ... Large Hadron Collider, and how it was the first supercollider of its kind ... Hey, there, it's been a while. Sorry about that; it turns out that

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  job without a lot of clear constraints or boundaries, and it also varies ... ."]executive board[/annotation] and how people choose to divvy up the work from year to year. But, regardless of how vague the role is, or how any person chooses

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  water anyway and why do I want it to such an extreme!? Does this mean that ... Go back to December 16, 2010. It was just another Thursday night ... . More importantly, it was the day on which early action decisions came out

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  familiar with it. Note: I had taken these on a Sunday morning before the gym ... taking pictures of sweaty people for future blackmail purposes. It's usually more crowded...but as long as you don't go between 4-6pm you won

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  all sides. It's difficult to brown the meatballs evenly in the skillet ... shaped the meat into a cube and stuck it in the pan. Then I shaped the next one and stuck it in the pan, then rotated the first one to a second face

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  you found it. Mitra: Actually, after he put it up we timed how long ... 're obligated to blog about it. Me: Definitely! But how can I construe it as ... ultimate altruistic troll, but I bring it to you for a half-reasonable reason

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  ’ll hear, “How many careers did you get?” and “How did it go?” and “Did you ... that. Here’s what it means. Last week was Career Fair. The day when ... . Working the dream. Moving up. Outside, there are food trucks with long

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  blown that trip away with its winds. How could he leave his family, living ... , though. Long in advance, my father had planned to come up to MIT that same ... . Seven in the evening, Saturday night. It had been raining for twenty four

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... still acts. I don't think I have seen anything with him in it since "Road to Perdition" in 2002. It was pretty good. It maintained my interest in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  friends of mine and I decided to see how long we were willing to wear the ... How do you go from taking 5 classes a term to only taking 2? You would think it's easy, but it's really not. So this semester is the FIRST

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  Chiara Coletti, a vice president. Hmm... it will be interesting to see how ... writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote ... stunned by how complete the correlation was between length and score. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  Her name is Betsy, and she got me to the finals of 2.007. This just goes to show you how lucky one individual can be. I actually thought ... long? =P

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  by Joyce Carol Oates that we read in AP English. When I read it, I thought that it was the most obvious thing in the entire world that the ... she taught Jonathan Safran Foer how to write, and then I realized she

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  learn how to integrate the techniques for a film. It was also cool to ... as opposed to we-don't-even-know-how-long ... Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  at 5th East the night before. It's right across the street, and walking ... that if I ever buy a half acre of land, I will build a deck on it à la JD ... painful but doable. But it's Saturday, and according to my 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , unveils it at an extravagant event, and stages a lavish delivery ceremony. How did this all start? The history of the Massachusetts Institute of ... . Why? Because it is made of gold and features a beaver on the front. Why

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  class, RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it at an extravagant event, and stages a lavish delivery ceremony. How did this all start ... ring is known as the Brass Rat. Why? Because it is made of gold and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  : "...It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to ... applications does sound a little bit like I'm complaining, but nothing could be further from the truth. It really is a joy and a privilege to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  , but two from Harvard. Does that mean Harvard is outpacing MIT’s geek quotient? A: It could be. Or it could be that the potency of geekiness is ... from a "40 Year Old Virgin"-esque chest waxing scene. Here's how Ankur

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007