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• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand ... generally hanging out with friends. On the other hand, I didn't get much ... potholes, run into ridiculous roadblocks, turned down dead ends. On some

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  keep working on those puzzles that Snively and Brian posted—we still don ... hunting remotely, instead of from on campus. Smaller teams can coordinate by ... to keep track of who's working on which puzzle, where they are, how

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  action telethon! 54 MIT students total came to chill out and check up on ... , during which Christina and I called our parents to congratulate them on ... , and I'd like to congratulate you on your acceptance! That's right! I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  release decisions on Saturday, March 18 at 12:00PM EST (Eastern Standard Time). If this date/time changes for any reason, it will be announced on ... office on the weekend that decisions are released, so to prevent any delays

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  hack: This poster is a spoof on The Evolving MIT Campus, the name given ... has already increased the amount of greenspace on campus by 0.0005%. And here's how: (The following pictures are a mix of pictures I took on my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , four-time IMO gold medalist and Putnam fellow, has his own entry on ... they'll let us, do a "Marching Band on Ice" show (no skates). Well, if you're planning to come to MIT you should read up on the cheer before

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

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  Guide to Facilities for Individuals with Disabilities campus map psoted on ... friend had noticed was that several of the buildings had tiny stickers on them, picturing hacks that had happened on those buildings in the last

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Activities Midway or on Instagram. Arcturus is revving up recruitment this fall ... school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  mainly in the Green Building, the tallest building on campus, and our undergrad lounge is my favorite place on campus. By the way, hi! I’m Juliana ... focus on geobiology, organic geochemistry, and astrobiology. Those are a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on a Thursday night. Generally speaking, there aren't many questions on a ... , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  ranger station, and filled out backcountry permits. The park ranger on duty ... when it's to protect their young. Right on cue, shortly after we hopped ... was standing on the side of the road, and ambled into the forest as we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  I’m still working on my post about Mystery Hunt, and I realized it ... algorithm. You can adjust the chords paired with each note by clicking on the ... DB and design, and has lectures from sponsors, ending with a lecture on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  the burgers are tasty. > "The Fox" is playing on the speakers. Loudly ... is an amazing mural on the wall of Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction ... ...later! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/10/2013: The burgers were fairly tasty. On a scale of 1 to 5, where

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... troubling affliction, particularly on long international plane trips and also on cross-country road trips. I spent the last week driving from Boston

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  persistent fans (why else would they offer me such irresistible deals on ... 3948394 mispronunciations of my name later, CPW strapped on its private jet ... inflicted a violent wrath of carnage on our anemic sleep schedules. Let it be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on ... section and saw a giant article on the MIT men's basketball team, and guard ... , but instead plans on playing professional basketball, probably in Europe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  studying, I'm sitting on The Angela Monster's bed with May and Liz '11 and ... . (I spent the earlier part of the evening on Burton Two- sometimes ... count the number of days left on the number of pectoral abdominal (SORRY

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  , treason, hang her at dawn, all that. Let's just blame it on the weird dreams ... these aren't quite on the same order as Matt's). This time around, I was ... .03 recitation on Thursday and said, "I am officially Course 16!" The next day

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian ... few weeks ago on the ways form logistics affect retirement savings Read

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter ... -so-secret crush on Pine, the mail client that's used on Athena. I used to only use ... . On Monday, we had to submit the primary themes for our theme

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005