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• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  deploying Ten Red Weather Balloons all across the country. $40,000 goes to the first team to locate all of them, by any means necessary. The balloons ... alumnae, prefrosh, and current students all across the country, who better

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  the campus before. I quickly realized it was all I had hoped for and ... England about the same time so I was able to show them almost immediately why I loved it so much here. CPW has been designed with the students in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  (I'm gonna go ahead and spill the beans: This is an entry about IAP. IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to point out that we are in the month of Feburary. These are the kinds of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  poor people in Africa, it's not like being published is really in the same world, you know? Right now I'm just hoping the Peace Corps accepts ... going to MIT that I just looked at the envelope and went, "Oh, that was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  for the evening, because MIT is calling YOU! That's right, tonight is the Early Action telethon when current students spend their evening ... the last two telethons but, alas, this year the 9 degree weather outside

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  Yesterday was a big day for the news media, what with the automotive ... Latino students paraded through the halls of the dorm playing accordion and ... the more conservative halls on campus, people started asking questions

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the ... that class this past week. It's a 12 unit class, which means the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  MIT application portal account. Schedule your interview now. The deadline (December 10) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the contact information for your interviewer (Educational Counselor) on the My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a special treat (or perhaps a trick) near the Great Dome. I saw the hack ... . Elsewhere on campus, the Halloween fervor was in full swing as students (and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  tomorrow is October 31: Halloween. And the next day is November 1: the MIT ... the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of ... patient with the application tracking system. Allow two weeks from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  1702, Bologna, Italy It's late in the afternoon, and the sunlight is streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto the worn, cobblestoned city square. Aside from the ever-present pigeons

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  registered for the course getting really excited to be there only to find out that about 30% of us were going to be kicked out of the class by the end. This, I never picked up on, because throughout the last 1/3 of the class

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  analysis for the 3rd 8.14 lab (Zeeman effect in Hg). My oral presentation is friday for this lab, but with the 8.06 deadlines this week I'm not sure I'll make it. I'm writing my paper on the dynamical (SO(4) rotational group

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  is nervousness about how thorough and multi-syllabic the response is ... lived over on the Boston side had to hike over the Harvard Bridge to this ... ways in the snow to get to the Institute back then. After a stint in

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in ... seemed way more attractive, so I did that instead. The poetry class I take ... think), and a poet. Bill, that's who teaches the course, taught a class 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  accepted to MIT, I still clearly remember the day I received my decision. The morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living ... congratulate or console. As I prepared to click the button, I was neither

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  I've decided that before I go to bed I should take advantage of the awesome capabilities of this wonderful invention called "The Laptop." It has ... propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  This summer at nerd camp, I heard about a band called The Pipettes. I spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and ... the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team of MIT alums; lots of really smart people. They actually won the hunt 2

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008