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  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  email from Sherin '15. We definitely had a FAC today. Don't you remember ... forget? Think, Tetazoo, think. Wasn't there a fridge around? Maybe there ... ? Maybe... maybe if we believe, it'll work. Didn't we hear that from someone

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  friend group, and don’t worry if it takes some moving around. Personally, I ... , for those of you who are concerned about stranded prepositions). I don’t ... place to speak about living spaces that I haven’t experienced. If you do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  and seaplanes. Of course. The nautical flavor of Seattle isn't too ... restaurant (I swear, they didn't check ID and I didn't find out until

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Growing up there wasn't a kid at school who didn't dream of robotic suits ... understand why they didn't do this from the start. I hope more companies will

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  space “the java hut.” Needless to say, this didn’t sit well with this ... fairly musically inept person, can't even begin to comprehend much less keep track of on a day-to-day basis). I don’t really have a better way

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  most definitely rejected. And they didn't even apologize for the misprint ... me feel like they didn't even care. Almost ten years later I know ... didn't even know until someone pointed me to the MITCC thread about it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  loud, very grand church bells, then couldn't find anything for breakfast because our hostel doesn't serve breakfast on Sundays and apparently neither ... songs exclusively about beards!" - but they didn't really seem to get it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever ... ’s really nothing left to say that hasn’t already been said before. Decisions ... , the next instant shouldn’t matter anymore to the extent that it super

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  had a lot more work than usual. As a freshman, I don’t think I ... .09 philosophy essay due Wednesday at 11:59pm. I really shouldn’t be complaining ... . Maybe next year, my sister won’t have to sit on my bed twiddling her

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  your algorithm doesn't work, an astronaut nearby can just pick it up and ... designs and begun development of our final design. I can't say much more ... it work and go home and call it a successful soldering day. It didn't

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  , which I haven't been able to do for a while. If there's one thing I ... farmer who can't bear to slaughter his cows for food, and a pastor who hears the cows' confession of being able to talk. Comedy sure doesn't make

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

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the QuestBridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t ... remain in the Regular Action pool. Q: Why hasn’t my Questbridge

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  a lot funnier than most wizards. So actually, scratch that, they weren’t ... won’t go into the details of his hypothesis, but I will say that they ... evolutionary advantages of a screaming baby. It was all very deep stuff. I didn’t

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  's making me feel bad about myself. So that I don't confuse (3) with (1), I ... keyed in what response. // the Coop is the MIT bookstore. // I didn't ... gets up and talks at us for 1-1.5 hours. On the days we don't have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  rigorous high school math educations!!” Which began to degrade into “… I can’t ... Month), because even if you don’t finish a novel, you still were pushed to be creative and write and aren’t alone in doing so. Project for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  fossil isn't the plant or animal itself: it's the mineral imprint of the ... the thing which casts a shadow. It's the contours of where the light isn't. That's how our admissions data work. It shows you where the decision wasn't

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  about an hour south of Tokyo for a company called Toray Industries. Haven’t ... amounts of TBS-T or insect cell media), we go to lunch, we work some more ... crackers, but overall I didn’t feel hyper culture shocked coming here. Then

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  can't spare an hour to watch the interview here, have a look at these ... definition, you are making something that wasn't there before. What is ... important part of your experience--and this is already the case, but I don't

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  . Still, I had fun.  This weekend was quite great, and it wasn't even near ... many times as they could.  I couldn't participate in running this year ... chaos, but IAP is almost over and I can't wait for a new awesome semester.

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  about this, but I only recently got all the applications done and didn't ... protocols. Also, for those of you who don't know about Langer Lab - it's the ... ! Speaking of which...   IAP I cannot wait for IAP.  For those who don't

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012