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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] The night still hung in the air at 0630 as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... shrill tone broke the silence and my adrenaline spiked. In a frenzy, we

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  , doing arts and crafts, swimming in a lake- summer camp gives kids an ... have a parent who has died from cancer, is currently in treatment for cancer, or is in remission from cancer. Camp Kesem began at Stanford

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  afternoon, Wednesday, April 18, at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel. We anticipate that in the days to come members of the community will organize additional opportunities to gather in remembrance. At the same time, we encourage those with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each ... designing a low-cost peanut butter machine for a women's collective in Haiti ... the show today in the largest lecture hall in the Stata Center. Not only

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  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 / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  , accelerated classes, just do research, or participate in a MISTI program, among ... girlfriend in Washington D.C. It wasn't until a couple days before leaving that I noticed that I would be in town for [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because ... absurd amount of fruit snacks in the past month. Despite the covid

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• 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 / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... live in my room in east campus, but i'm trying to spend more time in et ... steak in the shape of mettaton's face, dog salad, instant noodles, popato

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  dear past me,  I moved in last year on August 17th, a couple days ... earlier return in case of limited flight availability or other extenuating circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022