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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I ... on to discover the even greater joys life has to offer. Earlier this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends Tonight, It Ends Tonight On this evening / I give the final blow...

  

  .111 pset. One all-nighter. Wish me luck. ;) The semester is really coming to ... (after I'm done with the exam and the two psets I have to do after the exam ... - cuz you can pass out of stuff or not take the FEE (woot!) if you do well

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  My dorm, Burton-Conner, has a great view of the both domes from just outside the front entrance. This was highly convenient this morning because ... strange. What are those pokey things on the small dome? I hastened my way

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  just yelling across the room. Since we can't really get away with that, we have an Operator (inspired by the Matrix). It's the Operator's job ... heads against the wall so hard their brains are going to fall out. In

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

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely, Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen ... towards the end. I'm not sure if you could sense it from where you were, but

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of the talk was, "Rights and Responsibilities: The University Connection". Among the key issues discussed was the concept of neutrality- what it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  use for the photography class I'll get to take next term because I'm not a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first ... the medical field ever have.) -I decided to work towards the second

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in ... teacher is on the ball and sends in your recommendation in September, we'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of sisterhood and the chanting and singing and oh god, the chanting and singing, I was convinced that joining a sorority was not the way to go. Anyway, my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  Times are a changin’ around the Institvte. This year, sorority recruitment has been moved from the last weekend of IAP to the beginning of the school year. This is a major change because most of the MIT sorority women

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  the Meet the Bloggers party, we write stuff, put it on the Internet, and you guys actually read it. What's up with that?! -fed you. Even in the ... 's entire stock of organic portobello mushrooms. Think of the vegetarians

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  the same day. My comment to Mollie: "Wow, you guys are going to share not only a birthday but an anniversary! What are the chances?" Most people who use the expression "what are the chances" in casual conversation

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  the time of that statement, this would correspond to Wilt having slept ... twenty-minute drive from my house. The only thing I scored this semester was the music for "All In Green Went My Love Riding," my final project

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last night, the MIT women's volleyball team defeated Bridgewater State College to advance to the semifinal of the NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to ... hockey, so we postponed my first day by six months.) Monday was the 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  Today is one of my favorite days of the year: the end of daylight savings time. There's nothing like enjoying the only 25 hour day of the year by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  /East Bay this week. Many thanks to those who attended! The week started with ... year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest. At most of our meetings, we'll see somewhere in the 75-300 people range

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  As though we weren’t hosed enough…

  

  ...we've been graced with a fire truck on the Great Dome! In case you can't tell, that inscription says "MIT Fire Department". The CPs ... good officers staring at the Great Dome from their bikes: As a measure

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  Beginning on Wednesday, the Admissions Staff will go out across North ... , and I'll be off to Hartford, Connecticut. You can view the entire schedule and RSVP online. Following the Hartford meeting, I'll be heading out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  Wow. The last few days have been absolutely insane. You see, once I found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of ... , that wasn't necessarily the best idea. I didn't leave myself very much

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006