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  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  , which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2 ... dense, can exceed 10 pounds per square foot in weight. And because of a ... , freezing to them, and then being subjected to 50+ MPH winds is the landlocked

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  class includes students from Kansas and from Kenya. The class includes students from Alexandria, Virgina and Alexandria, Egypt. The class includes students who have served in the armed forces and students who have spent the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  downtime before school and college application season begins. I don’t know ... This is a quick read and I read it one day after complaining on facebook ... of my whining, because he shot back a link to this book title and said

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  into these past few weeks - and that's not even including classes, which we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost ... people at MIT: Yes, we have a number of Nobel laureates, but every now and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  about a week, and as far as I can tell the city hasn’t been transformed ... (during which time I slept, ate, ran, and got dog hair on just about everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First ... awesome) and the Rice-Baylor med program (which would prevent me from taking ... of you admits (and soon-to-be admits!) might be wondering if MIT is a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Odds ‘n Ends There's a video. And a SONG. Your lucky day.

  

  Well hey there, folks! Remember me? You know, that one weird kid blogger, the one who always makes you go "How'd she get hired?" I'M BACK! Yay! And I made a video for you guys. Double yay! And I pulled out

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved. As luck should have it, "the day" came on July 7th of 2008, and now ... I, and I am him....." Yesterday, there was terrible traffic in the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  what seems ridiculously early for MIT students to go and exercise for 2 ... clothes are kept, where I spend 2-3 hours every morning and some afternoons ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the Graduate School greatly exceeds the number which can be accommodated and it ... appreciate your interest in MIT and sincerely hope that you may be able to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with ... -midnight residential Cambridge and instead found a page of half-finished notes wrung from ... structure of space and time science is nothing but an extended frame of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 ... cart and vociferously spewed a sonic soup of bloodless terror and regret ... lemmings gleefully leaping to their deaths on YouTube. I shift forward and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... too much to try and blog about. So while I'm working on resizing my 3 TB worth of photos to put in my blog and writing my entries, I thought it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  I'm up early. I'm up REALLY early, and it's not because I stayed up ... " and it's a wee bit difficult. Difficult in that since Friday morning at ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  I've got a pocket, got a pocketful of orgo I've got a pain and I know ... of orgo I've got a pain and I know that it's all mine, oh, oh oh oh Do ... pain and I know that it's all mine, oh, oh oh oh I keep rhyming but I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  As per usual, CPW has again come and again, all of the prefrosh will ... fire, run around campus at odd hours of the night, watch NextACT, and ... ago and we continued it last year (with some issues, but we'll fix those

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Conner 2 Trip to the North End Bother bother bother bother

  

  A bunch of people from my floor decided to go to the North End to get pizza and pastries the other night. I didn't feel like writing about it so ... look like if you were an MIT student and went to the North End. Enjoy!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  than lolcats...hopefully. This year's theme is poverty, and a couple of ... : Wow, great examples, Cristen and Laura, thanks so much for posting those. I visited MIT last month, and since then (even more than before), it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not ... Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I ... I'll spare you and just add it to this entry. I was exploring the Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008