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  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  didn't have time to finish. (Although it didn't seem like anyone else did ... at music. Also, music is dumb. Intervals are just stupid. I don't ... wasn't filed on time, and took out a big black marker to cross off the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  terms off my notes; I don't know all them off the top of my head (mainly because the technical names of those chemical reactions actually don't ... anything I ever dreamed of encountering in high school. But that, I can't

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  , bad one.) The timing of the talk wasn’t great; it started at 7 pm ... MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... probably wouldn’t even get in. Sadly, even though the talk was held in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  challenge was to come up with a team name, we decided on “I Can’t Believe I ... of humor didn’t align with the judges’. Out of the five finalists, the ... you can’t really go wrong with a nerdy name. The getfit website (http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  . . . " Me: ". . . what!?!" Jon: "Wait, you can't even solve this! I hate math

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I must say though, Cambridge actually has pretty places to take pictures of. After reading Chris' entry about Taiwan, I realized that there hasn't been

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  MIT proper, I have been in Spain for more than two weeks! I don't know ... for 50 minutes. Here, if you can't speak Spanish, then you just can't ... , I just realized that I'm such a bad student and I didn't actually put

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  about last semester, but I didn't have the time. I think it would be kinda ... '09 My girlfriend Kristen '09 and me. Who says you can't find a girl ... innocent (and guilty). Katy '08 as Goldilocks. I don't know what's up with

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  some people...and simply doesn't for others. (Karen has more to say on this topic.) For those who don't like 8.01, or who don't have quite as ... that weren't enough, my parents, who have always been incredibly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  . So I did a lot of traveling and therefore didn't make much money. So no

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  revoke your admission or diploma (jk) The t-shirt I was planning on ... they say the line doesn't start forming until X o clock, it means the ... spoilers: Don't watch this video if you don't want Book 6 spoiled for you

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  . (And if you haven't registered yet, please do so using one of those

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  "yield"), we admitted 1533 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... elsewhere. We won't know more until after May 1. How many people have you ... -- and I am hopeful that we will -- the odds are that it won't be for large

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  can't really see in Boston), ran around in the snow, etc. And

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  your interview has been waived, don't worry about it, we understand that we can't be everywhere!] *Even if you are applying elsewhere via an ... you haven't yet given your teachers their MIT recommendation forms, what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  clash of my exam and i couln't give it. in december i have my exam again for SAT. so i couldn't complete my test on time that had set up by the ... wrote: "If you're applying EA, then the admissions staff aren't expecting

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  ... and though I didn't go quite as crazy as last year, I still found time ... that my SAM: Spaghetti, Apple, and Meatballs didn't win the award for ... should feel lucky that we even get to bake apples anymore." But I didn't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  haven't seen in 2 years and they're always like "OMG I saw that picture of ... don't look that cool, that's because Ruth had all these ambitious ideas that I knew I wouldn't be able to actually pull off...) That's me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  the time I was trying to answer the question, I wasn't thinking outside ... just a sampling of groups at MIT, and don't forget that a lot of the cool hands-on work isn't done with a formal organization [ref: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  next wave of applicants. "Just because you haven't heard of a college doesn't mean it's no good," argues Marilee Jones, the admissions dean at ... applying to. They didn't really have anything in common except for being

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006