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  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas. Well, I’ll show…

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  I’m back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have been piling up in my inbox… Where the heck have you been?!? April 6-9 was CPW, followed by…

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  So the first night in Rome was spent pretty casually. We arrived at our hotel, Hotel Regent where the air conditioner was semi-disfunctional and the beds were twin extra long…

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  strange combination of yuck yuck and gross. Life goes on. I was thirsty so I

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Pennyslvania leads the country in mushroom production, supplying 45% of the nation’s mushrooms. California, in second place, provides only 18%. Sam’s Mom has informed me that I…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? …what the most awkward thing in the whole entire world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go running and…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT undergraduate mathlete extraordinaire Reid Barton, four-time IMO gold medalist and Putnam fellow, has his own entry on Wikipedia. I couldn’t think of anything to blog about…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  Hello friends! News updates: IAP is over! This is sad for most people, but happy for me, because I’ll actually be attending FEWER hours of class once the semester starts.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a few blocks away in any direction. First off, there's Toscanini's about

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last Saturday. Saturday (sans Sam):…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Both chocolate lava cake and peanut blossom cookies were invented at the Pillsbury Bake-Off. It’s not the holidays unless Sam’s Mom and I have baked four award-winning…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  I discovered shortly after completing this blog entry that, much like a newly-bought laptop, it has already been rendered obsolete. Well, I’m not writing another entry. Ha! So, let’s turn…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  I am done with finals and very excited about that; you may be able to detect some of this excitement in my entry. In seventh grade I learned from Mrs.…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  “Last Night” — get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so confused about the…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  other schools on your list. It's an unfortunate fact of life that, in all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  The other day I realized that I’m always bragging about the one time a month that I get my act together and cook real food for myself, even if it…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  slightly different perspective on life. My recommendation would be to wait

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  Lots of people thanked me for my application advice, for which you are all very welcome. I hope it helped you chill a little about the whole thing. There will…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn’t even know it was coming. Two of my best friends from high school were visiting me and another…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  formulaic approach to life for the purpose of college admissions. I may have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005