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  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... left, two ECs help the attending crowd check in. At right, EC Joanna Tan ... little jealous that Bryan got his name in lights at the Detroit/Ann Arbor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  ), which you can read about in everybody else's blog. Basically, during the ... , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people ... , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost every weekend. I deserved it. The first step in my day of laziness was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the ... research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. She used a two ... in diameter and weigh more than twenty-five times our sun. She had the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  after you solve the puzzle. Flavor Text: Lost in the jungle, Joe is ... items might help you as well. Fourth in Malibu Sands Summer Sixth in Raven Symone's 1st Third in Greek A + Roman V Thirteenth in Mr Tumnus

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My name is Mollie Burgoon. I live in Pickerington, Ohio. I go to Peace U

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

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts, but most recently I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm *definitely* majoring in 2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning ... undergraduate who says she's been interested in astronomy for "as long as I can ... , more than a billion miles across. Emily Levesque, a junior in physics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  . At MIT, we celebrate the holiday in various fun ways. Of course ... off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and ... screenings (such as Shakespeare in Love), flower sales, and candygrams. One of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Institute Requirement. A class that all undergraduates must pass in order to ... balloon pop out of the field in the middle of the Hahvahd-Yale football game ... in a computer program. (3) v. To use or operate something in a manner

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions ... promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me ... informational pages are helpful in the same way that a college viewbook might be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  that you've asked in the comments... Thanks, in part, to the transition ... 've become a bit behind in answering your comments. It's been nearly two months ... directly to the admissions office. In this case, the letter of recommendation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in ... -hitting for me in the comments... ------------------------------------- Vinayak ... in?" This is a bug in our online application, all is good, don't worry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day ... article, "never in Boston’s long and storied weather history (since 1872

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  semester, the past few months in particular, have all been a blur, but we ... same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... paper for my [annotation note="21G.038(China in the News)"]CI-H class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I ... — have found meaning in these books too. You may be encountering this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... myself really actually relaxing in the mountains of New Hampshire. Now, if

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

   and take some fun classes and do some fun things here in Boston. ...cooked ... horizontal hierarchy and whitespace in our arrangements. Pretty cool. Got to ... admission to the MFA and ICA, among other museums in the Boston area, and it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of ... of MIT page, was the most fundamental restructuring of MIT in its ... , and Social Science. The report, written in the historical context of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018