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  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... umbrella on a train in Switzerland last weekend. It was really a great

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? On keyboards in German internet cafes, the y and z keys ... in less than 10 minutes. Kneel before me, Rachael Ray. Last entry ended ... weekend in a charming rooftop cafe overlooking the Mosel River. Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  So in hopes to show you more about what classes are like, over the next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry ... deposited in holes that looked like the windows in Simmons. Did you know

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  Cloves and a Chicken. Basically you sear the chicken, cover it in oil, toss in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long time to peel, and forget about it in a 350 degree oven for 90 minutes. As

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  the lab, participating in cheerleading recruitment and tryouts, and helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got everything done, and we got a great group of freshmen in the entry, as well as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  out that after about 5 miles you end up in Dorchester. Having never been ... , warm, and breezy 9 months a year in Boston, just like in Southern ... , then whom can you trust? Turns out that there's a zoo in Dorchester. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  Having received my MIT degree in Management Science, I'm still on the ... in 1996: Sloan has just completed the first fully equipped state-of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... will pile in the Family Vehicle and drive past several cow farms (but not ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  just the Germany-Sweden eighthfinal World Cup match taking place in Munich that afternoon, but there were a lot of people walking around in ... always wear these in Bavaria? Because they are kind of uncomfortable. I

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

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  what I'm doing and such -- so I thought I'd clue you all in on my raison ... , a theatre/band/choir star in high school. I was the only person in my class to make all eight plays and musicals held during my four years in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the ... 't see the genius in that one yet). Anyway, how is the music department at ... high school, I had the pleasure of singing under Dr. William Cutter in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  Edward wrote: "Are the differences in education systems around the ... evaluated in context. "In my country (Kenya) students who sat for the national exams are ranked by province with the best 100 candidates in each

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  placement in the hall, the dining halls are back up and running, and the weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back ... grapefruit, and sat in front of my Real Analysis class (18.100A) for a solid

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  tracking transaction flow whenever someone covers another in regular mass ... her final Jeopardy answer. At this point in the game, she'd been ... experiences in great detail. As a Jeopardy contestant, and even more so as an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  (majoring in Course 2: Mechanical Engineering) Geez, we have a lot of Course 2's in French House. Where is this one right now? Microsoft campus in ... 'll figure it out, my dear. * * * Adam H. '15 (majoring in Course 18-C: Math

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  'm actually here to talk about, albeit in my characteristically verbose but ... in that. Thankfully, you do have a wonderful resource available to you in the form of your freshmen advisors. Freshmen advisors are faculty

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  required core classes in science, history, and math. One at a time, teachers and students stood up in front of us weary workday parents, who were yawning and fidgeting in small hard plastic chairs under the harsh

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Gruber received his Bachelor Of Science in Course 14 (Economics) from MIT in 1987, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1992. Since then ... . Gruber received his B.S. in Economics from MIT, and his Ph.D. in Economics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  Square Theater, ticket in one hand and notebook in the other, I wasn ... in the arts faculty that I finally decided to check it out and squeeze ... !). In addition to staging performances, Central Square Theater works

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in ... in the long run that only degrades the full impact and true value of what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008