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December 2011

  1. Ask Me Anything
  2. Impulsive Decisions
  3. Regular Action Deadline Q & A
  4. Deferred Applicants Q & A
  5. The Year in Review
  6. At The Ends Of Tunnels
  7. Disappointment
  8. What’s on a desk?
  9. Open Thread: Admitted in Early Action.
  10. Open Thread: EA Deferred
  11. Open Thread: EA Not Admitted
  12. MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
  13. You’re stressed.
  14. Remember, Remember, the 17th of December…
  15. Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21
  16. Why did the engineer cross the road?
  17. Invasion MIT!
  18. Home is Where the Heart is
  19. MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST
  20. Adventures with Miracle Fruit
  21. Two Videos
  22. 9000 Words
  23. The Complexity of Simplicity
  24. Lesson Planning
  25. The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering
  26. The Post-MIT Trajectory
  27. I auditioned for a musical
  28. I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama…
  29. Flourish and Blogs

November 2011

  1. Manage Your Future
  2. Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my!
  3. Film
  4. Big Questions and Small Scientists
  5. Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art!
  6. Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student
  7. The Curiosity Instinct
  8. ICE, ICE baby
  9. Architecture students
  10. Comfort and College
  11. The Month of Novembeard
  12. Splish Splash
  13. Updates
  14. Break New Ground
  15. Average
  16. Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students
  17. Important EA Processing Update!
  18. Halloween is the best day of the year.
  19. What Should I Do Next Semester?
  20. Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT
  21. An Awesome Autobiography
  22. We are artists & writers
  23. Deep Breath
  24. Multidimensional
  25. Melancholia
  26. (K)onstantly not good enough
  27. International students @ MIT (+life updates)
  28. Design in Boston
  29. Aged And Confused
  30. Need help choosing a MISTI program?
  31. The Illusion Of Validity
  32. In Memoriam: Professor Silbey
  33. November 1 Updates
  34. Pumpkin Drop

October 2011

  1. Emergency Application Extension
  2. This story has to do with professor accessibility.
  3. Welcome to Maseeh!
  4. Systems and Light
  5. #Winning
  6. MIT EECS students travel the world
  7. The Difficulty With Data
  8. Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It
  9. Early Action Updates
  10. Our homework is to go camping
  11. It’s not fair!
  12. Free Flu Shots
  13. Doing What You Love
  14. Renewable Energy in Spain
  15. Faith
  16. Wake Up Calls
  17. Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge
  18. Still Alive!
  19. Measurements
  20. Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers
  21. In Praise Of Holistic Admissions
  22. How to MC Hammer
  23. Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s
  24. Art & Science in Paris
  25. Jump into a new comfort zone!
  26. Art is Everywhere!
  27. In Search of Answers
  28. Diversity or Merit?
  29. 2 AM Destiny
  30. Lobby 7
  31. Being “qualified” for MIT
  32. Are you a high school student?
  33. Angry Nerds
  34. Small Victories
  35. Untitled
  36. Angry Birds Fly at MIT
  37. Steve and Me
  38. Numbers
  39. A Summer to Remember – Interphase
  40. MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize
  41. Planned Procrastination
  42. There’s something happening here

September 2011

  1. Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched
  2. End-of-Summer Camping
  3. There Goes My Baby
  4. Like a G6
  5. “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air”
  6. May we offer you a drink of water?
  7. Ask Me Anything
  8. My Freshman Backpack
  9. Facebook & Google Plus
  10. Freebieasy
  11. The Good Stuff
  12. A Day in the Life
  13. Pay it forward
  14. I’m so ill.
  15. MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix
  16. Why was I up so early this weekend?
  17. Meant to Be
  18. Derailment
  19. MIT, Part VII
  20. Fit
  21. Food Fights
  22. Tweaching and Stitches
  23. The Availability Heuristic
  24. Parental Advice
  25. Beauty, xkcd, and my classes
  26. This…Is…BLODGEBALL!
  27. Not in Kansas anymore
  28. Questbridge College Admissions Conference
  29. print “Hello, World!\n”;
  30. Forget your plan for a minute
  31. That fear of “falling behind”
  32. It’s FPOPpin’
  33. Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions
  34. A Maple Peach in Cambridge
  35. Learning more than just math
  36. Not About the Name
  37. Ethnicity Information (Optional)
  38. I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1)
  39. Bloggerduction
  40. What Are We Waiting For
  41. MIT Application now available

August 2011

  1. Life After MIT
  2. Building a Ballpit
  3. You Are Welcome Here
  4. So you want to be a student-athlete?
  5. MIT IreneCam
  6. Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER
  7. Trumpeting for Assassins
  8. What’s on your mind?
  9. My Life, As Physics Problem
  10. A Different Kind of Learning
  11. So You Wanna Be a Doctor?
  12. Help@MIT
  13. “Learning To Learn At MIT”
  14. NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS
  15. Welcome MIT Class of 2015
  16. My Stomach Overrides All Priorities
  17. Some Good Advice
  18. Angular Velocity Saved My Life
  19. Space Robots
  20. 19 Summers
  21. Cancer on my mind
  22. Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life
  23. Meet The (New) Bloggers!
  24. Never Mind The Score
  25. Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor?
  26. The Answer is Yes
  27. I would like to find an astronomer to talk to
  28. MCAT Advice
  29. Summer Listening
  30. Esse quam videri
  31. Massachusetts: The Geek State
  32. Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation
  33. Summer Reading
  34. Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution
  35. Oh cruel, cursed fate!
  36. Making friends at college
  37. Call For A Good Time
  38. MIT Application: August 19

July 2011

  1. A Brief Retreat
  2. A Sorting Hat of Sorts
  3. MIT Movies Emeritus
  4. Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report
  5. 3 Lessons Learned While Hiking
  6. Go West, Young Man
  7. As I Was Saying…
  8. The 12 Step Plan
  9. Blogger Application 2011!
  10. The Truth About Science
  11. L@@K at the Class of 2015
  12. “Choose Your Own Adventure”
  13. Tangential Learning
  14. How the Career Fair saved my summer
  15. (Still) Celebrating the 150th!
  16. Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics
  17. Putting Diversity into Context
  18. Guest Lectures
  19. To the future!
  20. MIT salutes Harry Potter
  21. Ups and Downs
  22. It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know
  23. Welcome Home
  24. Thing-A-Mah-Bobs
  25. MIT Academics
  26. How to get a UROP
  27. Awesome Diva adventures
  28. What’s in a name?
  29. Q&A Vol. III
  30. Rachel was at SF Pride

June 2011

  1. Biology-inspired design from MIT alums
  2. Hospital Trips and Dance Parties
  3. Things got poopy in Beijing
  4. Nerd Camp
  5. Move Fast And Break Things
  6. A fortnight of Boston summer
  7. A Brief History of Hacks
  8. A Taste of the Real World
  9. Lessons Learned in Lab
  10. This is the end
  11. Let the good times roll
  12. They say you learn more by living abroad
  13. 101 Things To Do Before You Graduate!
  14. BRUINS!!!
  15. Starbucks.
  16. Writing is Magic
  17. Trip Report: IvyPlus
  18. Seatbelts, Everyone!
  19. I know you’re bad at something
  20. Lazy Day
  21. On Greatness
  22. Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce?
  23. Full Steam Ahead
  24. Celebrate the Good Times
  25. Life is Improv
  26. Guest Post: Think Pink 2011
  27. Things Charles Has Made
  28. I get by with a lot of help from my friends

May 2011

  1. Summer at last
  2. Note To Self
  3. Summer Season
  4. Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two)
  5. Face Book And Study
  6. Back to Boston
  7. Above MIT
  8. Resolved: MIT Rocks
  9. Metabo lite s
  10. 50 Things (That MIT Made)
  11. Incentive to Drop Out
  12. The Blogger’s Cut, Year One
  13. Maker Faire 2011
  14. Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3
  15. Totally awesome
  16. 150 1
  17. (Paint)Ballin’
  18. LIGHTS.
  19. Waitlist Decisions 2011
  20. Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq
  21. There’s More to Life Than Tooling
  22. Hello, strangers.
  23. How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
  24. Stepping Up
  25. Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2
  26. Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition
  27. [Infinite] Quarter Mile
  28. LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers
  29. Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS
  30. Welcome to MIT!
  31. Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1
  32. Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge
  33. Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You

April 2011

  1. Unlike any other.
  2. Coming Soon!
  3. Updates from Admissions
  4. World’s Best Rib Recipe
  5. MIT Open House
  6. Public Art
  7. Cool People. And Lunch!
  8. This is what happens when we don’t do work
  9. I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis
  10. A *Major* Dilemma
  11. A Weekend in New York
  12. Happiness
  13. Finding Your Match
  14. Marathon Monday
  15. Q&A, Vol. II
  16. Cute! an MIT mood meter –
  17. Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders
  18. Inventional YoYo
  19. Sacred Space
  20. Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar!
  21. A CPW Challenge
  22. Get excited for CPW!
  23. Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems
  24. CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show
  25. Giving Back (Guest Entry)
  26. More than 9000 reasons
  27. how ARe you today?
  28. Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend
  29. Cultured
  30. Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4
  31. CPW is for Parents too…really!!
  32. A Night at the Office

March 2011

  1. Looking Back, Looking Forward
  2. Concourse, of course
  3. Introducing: La Maison Française (French House)
  4. Agelab
  5. Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans
  6. Looking Backwards
  7. The MIT Spring Concert
  8. It’s Friday, Friday…
  9. MIT (Maker) Women Rock
  10. Under the Dome
  11. Accountability
  12. Reference Frames
  13. The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever
  14. In Defense of Peer Pressure
  15. Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13
  16. DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera
  17. Newly Admitted Student Events…
  18. Bleary-eyed
  19. News for Admitted Students
  20. Waitlist Q&A
  21. MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online
  22. Open Thread for Admitted Students
  23. Open Thread for Waitlisted Students
  24. Open Thread For Those Not Admitted
  25. Sabrosura!
  26. Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra
  27. Open Thread
  28. It’s the PI-nal countdown!
  29. Will the pie be bitter or sweet?
  30. Founder’s Letter
  31. Pie 2
  32. I Challenge You
  33. AROTC Day in the Life
  34. My How Times Change…
  35. Life + Sciences
  36. Math Women Rock
  37. The Great Debate
  38. Decision Date 2011
  39. Things That Aren’t Studying
  40. Stress Management @ The MITstitvte
  41. Hot Crosswalk Buns
  42. Learning Time
  43. A Splash of color!
  44. Pulse 2011
  45. Not so FAST
  46. If you give a girl an assignment…
  47. Greetings from MIT Labs!
  48. We All Need A Little Encouragement
  49. Final Forty-Five

February 2011

  1. The Future Is Grim
  2. How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT
  3. Meet TOFU
  4. When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You
  5. Fact: Architecture majors have to code
  6. Another Journey Planned
  7. NSBE MUSE Colloquium
  8. Preparing for the real world
  9. A Three-part IAP
  10. Dell-icious.
  11. Life On Mars
  12. Academic Love Poetry
  13. Too Good to Just Tweet About
  14. Yestermonth’s IAP
  15. The First Year (In Numbers)
  16. Most delicious deliverables ever
  17. Put a Ring On It
  18. More at Home
  19. MIT International
  20. Bringing Down the (Lottery) House
  21. A Cacophony of Coats
  22. Oh The Things I’ve Seen
  23. A Blogographical Biography
  24. No Chance
  25. Women’s Initiative
  26. And now your feature presentation
  27. Three from MIT!
  28. A Physics Metaphor
  29. Vqa 1
  30. We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming…
  31. Me again (but with flamethrowers this time)

January 2011

  1. Senior Spring!
  2. Photophobic
  3. This Blog Post is a Bad Idea
  4. Odds ‘n Ends
  5. The MIT Midyear Report
  6. Survey says…
  7. Back to School
  8. In Which I Sound Like an Old Man
  9. On Teaching and Learning
  10. mit.wikipedia.org
  11. Mr. E. Hunt
  12. Snowy Birthday Party
  13. Snowpeople & a hammershark
  14. Snow has arrived
  15. How to Survive a Nor’easter
  16. Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft
  17. Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results
  18. Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation
  19. Oodles Of Doodles
  20. A New Time, A New Place

2010 314

December 2010

  1. Happy New Year!
  2. MIT Regular Action Deadline
  3. For EA Deferred Students
  4. In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor
  5. A Welcoming Environment
  6. Reflections and Decisions
  7. Early Action: Decisions Now Available
  8. Early Action: Admitted
  9. Early Action: Deferred
  10. Early Action: Not Admitted
  11. Minecraft: Discuss
  12. MIT = The American Dream
  13. a rose is a rose is a rose
  14. Challenge Accepted
  15. MIT EA Decisions: Thursday 12/16, 9pm EST
  16. Finality
  17. What do you do for fun around here?
  18. I THINK it’s time for a guest blog!
  19. Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT!
  20. MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight!
  21. Take a Load Off
  22. Beard today, gone tomorrow

November 2010

  1. Nationals!
  2. Happy Thanksgiving
  3. Moves and Music(als)
  4. Help
  5. Weekend Adventures Part One
  6. ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays]
  7. Talking About Dining
  8. Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar
  9. 298 Tickets.
  10. Early Action Update
  11. Feedback Works
  12. Watch a Webcast!
  13. SpaceVision 2010
  14. You’ve got questions…
  15. Missing Application Materials?
  16. Anyone else OCD about saving space??
  17. How to “Teach” Leadership
  18. Odds and Ends
  19. Life as an Artist
  20. Restoring Sanity… and Fear
  21. MIA No More
  22. Applying Sideways

October 2010

  1. Scary Tails and College Essays
  2. My Second Home
  3. Your Early Action Deadline Questions
  4. Defying That Sinking Feeling
  5. Ode to the New, Part 3
  6. Outside The Bubble
  7. Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider!
  8. Fall Hits MIT
  9. The Rudolph Family Weekend
  10. I Love Lucy: Continued
  11. On Being an Upperclassman
  12. Most Importantly, No Reddit
  13. Live from the Glass Lab!
  14. Human After All
  15. Fariborz Maseeh Hall
  16. MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video)
  17. About MIT Recommendation Letters
  18. Living Like A Native
  19. On Mens et Manus
  20. I Love Lucy!
  21. Terrible Traffic
  22. Science, Technology, and Elephants.
  23. North to Peru
  24. Weekend Off
  25. RainbowFloor@MIT
  26. 18 and Counting
  27. There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’
  28. Get It Done
  29. Sentimentality
  30. Ode to the New, Part 2
  31. An Open Letter
  32. An Adventure on the Charles
  33. MIT Women Rock
  34. Living with Rain
  35. Test Time!
  36. On the Road Again
  37. Icyd
  38. Perkus Nonacademia
  39. Diary of an All-nighter

September 2010

  1. Swag … I mean, Career Fair
  2. Ode to the New, Part 1
  3. Ye Olde Career Fair
  4. MIT Arts Party 2010!
  5. Row, row, row your boat
  6. Sailing!
  7. A Preview of Things to Come
  8. Blast From The Past: Garage Hero!
  9. On Being a n00b at MIT
  10. Watch this!
  11. What’s for dinner?
  12. Stayin’ Classy
  13. MIT XC, looking sharp
  14. 3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics
  15. Happy Birthday!
  16. Misery Loves Company: Part 1
  17. The New Year
  18. Enterlude
  19. Another year has begun
  20. Just A Small Town Girl
  21. Making an Entrance
  22. Apple Juice Liberation!
  23. Inside the Webcast Studio
  24. Just a little hack…
  25. Coffee Talk
  26. MIT on the road
  27. Opera
  28. What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!)
  29. First Day of Classes!
  30. Art Imitating Art
  31. Withdrawal Symptoms
  32. Orientation

August 2010

  1. Like Never Before
  2. Tweet, tweet
  3. It’s Almost Here!
  4. (un)Empty Nest
  5. Nerd Love
  6. Famous people who didn’t go to MIT
  7. Settled
  8. Hello, Goodbye,
  9. Checking My Calendar
  10. Announcing New Bloggers for 2010!
  11. Veni, Vidi, Jamba
  12. The MIT Application is now available!
  13. Talking about a difficult subject
  14. 3-D Blog!!
  15. What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition)
  16. Do You Like “Like”?
  17. hello from seattle
  18. Undercover Admissions Officer
  19. Gallivanting with Gilles
  20. Into the Smoke
  21. Belated

July 2010

  1. All Hail the Working People
  2. The Institute of Smashing
  3. Alaska, part I
  4. Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies
  5. In which I screwed up a lot
  6. Complementary in Kinetic Typography
  7. Summertime
  8. Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling
  9. ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~
  10. A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome
  11. I saw a turkey the other day…
  12. Judd Logan is my homeboy
  13. Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man!
  14. Summer Circus
  15. Blogger Application 2010
  16. Inside/Outside
  17. This Entry is About

June 2010

  1. One Year After Michael Jackson
  2. This Entry is Really Long.
  3. I’m in New York!
  4. Orthostatic Tolerance
  5. MIT Alums Direct New OK Go Video
  6. Ich Liebe Deutschland!
  7. GEL-ing
  8. The ________ Outdoors
  9. MIT grads, 10 years later
  10. Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch.
  11. Biking in Boston

May 2010

  1. Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT
  2. The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!)
  3. It’s here!
  4. Retrospective
  5. The View From the Other Side of Hell
  6. Schnitzer Prize Winners!
  7. LOOK AT THIS.
  8. Tying up some loose ends
  9. MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention
  10. Engineers Assemble!
  11. The Waitlist, 2010
  12. Glimpses of Haiti
  13. Refreshment
  14. Cool Toys II
  15. The home of cool toys
  16. Welcome 2014s!! :)
  17. Looked outside my window, and what did I see
  18. Who’s that girl in uniform?
  19. RING DELIVERY!!!
  20. Last night in Haiti

April 2010

  1. Mtv 1
  2. Where I’ve Been
  3. MIT and the SAA
  4. Camp Kesem!
  5. Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele?
  6. Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites
  7. Notes From Atlanta
  8. Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO!
  9. Haiti: Day 1
  10. Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!)
  11. Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh*
  12. I Feel Cool
  13. Saying Yes (or No)
  14. On taking a ‘Gap Year’
  15. Bill Gates
  16. Presenting…My Prefrosh!
  17. Burchard Scholars Program
  18. A Shot in the Life
  19. For Those About to Dew
  20. Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!)
  21. Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!)
  22. Share Your CPW With Us!
  23. On the Flip Side
  24. Let the games begin!
  25. ZOMG CPW
  26. Battle of the Bands
  27. Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!)
  28. The Parent’s Guide to CPW
  29. Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!)
  30. CPW Events That You Should Come To!
  31. We’re Ready for CPW
  32. My New Hobby….
  33. CPW on the Web
  34. T-Minus Six Days

March 2010

  1. Story of a Lifestyle
  2. Building the Yearbook
  3. 40 Hours in Cape Cod
  4. Your friendly neighborhood webcaster
  5. Cpw
  6. Are people on the East Coast friendly?
  7. Rejects, I feel your pain!
  8. The MIT Blogarhythms!
  9. Share Your Story, 2014 edition
  10. Admitted Students Update
  11. More Information on the Waitlist
  12. Something is coming, part 3…
  13. MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings…
  14. Hello
  15. Story of Tim Tebow
  16. MITSO Gone Wild!
  17. MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions available online
  18. Open Forum for Admitted Students
  19. Open Forum for Waitlisted Students
  20. Open Forum for those Not Admitted
  21. A Few Words
  22. OMG OMG OMG!
  23. Something is coming, part 2…
  24. Decisions, Decisions…..
  25. You’re Still Our No.1 :)
  26. Richard III: Behind-the-scenes
  27. Unedited notes on gravity, etc.
  28. Distractions
  29. I don’t understand
  30. Food Truck Song
  31. Throwback
  32. MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER?
  33. Something is coming..
  34. No Pain, No Gain
  35. Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST.
  36. Regular Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14
  37. Senior Survey (Says?)
  38. will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston
  39. Quick updates

February 2010

  1. MIT goes APE.
  2. Mit 3s you 1
  3. BLARGL!
  4. Just Dance!
  5. “Well, you just cost me money.”
  6. MIT, Time to Step Up?
  7. MIT has a radio station!?
  8. Days Without a Laptop…
  9. Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams
  10. Remember?
  11. Generally Unrelated to General Relativity
  12. Livebloggin Ring Premiere!
  13. And we bring you more sketch!
  14. T Minus One.
  15. Where do Trees Come From?
  16. FINAL TERM ATTACK
  17. What I’ve Been Up To
  18. Doonesbury and MIT
  19. A new semester
  20. Stories from Uganda
  21. On Time
  22. ..and Here We Go Again!
  23. We bring the sketch to you!
  24. To Defeat the Huns
  25. Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report
  26. So What Did I Do During IAP?
  27. What I Did on Registration Day
  28. Let’s Get Down to Business
  29. The Beginning of the End
  30. Healthy reflections…

January 2010

  1. We’re #1!
  2. My Entirely Unexciting IAP
  3. Field Trip!
  4. Regular Action Admissions Update
  5. An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses
  6. Sunrise
  7. Start shaping up in January!
  8. In or Out?
  9. A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition
  10. Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It
  11. Building 46
  12. It’s a puzzlement…
  13. Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight.
  14. About the Midyear Report
  15. For EA Deferred Students
  16. Two Blogs
  17. Watch our robot grow up!
  18. Just My Luck
  19. Kickoff!
  20. I Can Save You
  21. the Colbert Bump
  22. Quick update from SB
  23. Rambax MIT
  24. Back
  25. Movin’ On
  26. Passions
  27. Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12

2009 356

December 2009

  1. MIT Regular Action Deadline
  2. MIT Undergraduates by Major
  3. Winter Miscellania
  4. Construction
  5. 10 Things I Learned 1st Semester
  6. Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2)
  7. Snow
  8. Snacks on a Plane
  9. Aftermath
  10. EA Decisions
  11. Admitted
  12. Deferred
  13. Not Admitted
  14. Facebook.
  15. To the Deferred
  16. GOOD LUCK
  17. Science is Delicious!
  18. 40 Hours Left!
  19. Finals Week
  20. Early Action Decisions: Wednesday 12/16
  21. It’s Legit
  22. Stand Back!
  23. 8 Hypotheses
  24. Ode to a Package of Dial Soap
  25. WE FOUND ALL THE BALLOONS!!!
  26. 10 Red Balloons
  27. I have the best girlfriend ever
  28. Nice Try, Caltech

November 2009

  1. Traditions
  2. Vote for Ksplice!
  3. MIT Women’s Soccer
  4. Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving
  5. An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama
  6. Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships
  7. Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT
  8. Potpourri Blog Post
  9. EA Update: App Tracking & More
  10. A short entry
  11. Relativity Special (and vice versa)
  12. Tunnel Adventures
  13. Blogger Freebie #2
  14. Another Type of Mens et MANUS
  15. Tgif
  16. Balancing Life, School, and… More Life?
  17. More thoughts on classes
  18. Where’s My Stuff?
  19. “You know what would be cool?”
  20. Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston
  21. Sights and Sounds
  22. AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay
  23. Train(wreck) of Thought
  24. tEpikazoo
  25. So How Does It Feel?

October 2009

  1. OCTOBERRR
  2. Shiny Circuits
  3. EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated]
  4. Don’t Panic!
  5. Mens et Manus – mainly Manus!
  6. Pick My Halloween Costume!
  7. How to look over your application and advice about breathing.
  8. Alaska
  9. On a Week of IHTFP
  10. I had a terrible week
  11. If the Obama were a unit of measure . . .
  12. Snow-bama
  13. Thoughts on Removing the Long Essay from the Freshman Application
  14. Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today
  15. Roman Life
  16. Obama’s Visiting MIT!
  17. Paper Planes
  18. MIT is Utopia
  19. Come Visit!
  20. Going Social
  21. Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser!
  22. Advice for Seniors
  23. LET’S PLAY
  24. Mind and Hand
  25. Blogural Inaugural
  26. Do you have jobs?
  27. MIT Admission Interview
  28. Work and Energy
  29. I don’t like SPAM!
  30. Welcome to the Woodshop
  31. Welcome to my home
  32. Brief Wondrous Lives
  33. Tlm
  34. Life
  35. In which brains are awesome
  36. Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you
  37. Past, Present, and Future
  38. Start of Something New
  39. SEPTEMBERRR
  40. MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times
  41. Three Things That Are Awesome
  42. Physics in the MIT

September 2009

  1. Birthday! (a.k.a my first video blog)
  2. Product Design, MIT style
  3. Aditl 1
  4. Party in the MIT
  5. Some recommendations about recommendations
  6. *Oink Oink*
  7. Truth Values
  8. Blog Entry: Recession Edition
  9. Intense Procrastination
  10. My Schedule!
  11. Week 1
  12. What it’s like being back
  13. Second Day of Class
  14. Phew
  15. Whoa…You’re Old
  16. Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions?
  17. Schedilemmas
  18. Disappearing (or life goes on)

August 2009

  1. Hello world.
  2. Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13
  3. Ruminations and room-inations
  4. A Characterization
  5. Commencement 2009
  6. And the winners are…
  7. Operabots with Personality
  8. Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13
  9. What Am I Forgetting?
  10. A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge
  11. San Francisco, je t’aime
  12. A “World Record Attempt”
  13. To RFID or not to RFID?
  14. Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here
  15. On Flying
  16. Meteor Shower
  17. Ben 2.0
  18. In which I am no longer new here
  19. Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13
  20. An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition
  21. The Hawk Flies High
  22. Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13
  23. Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain
  24. 2009: Let There Be Bloggers!
  25. The Challenge of Public Health
  26. Cheat Sheet

July 2009

  1. You should live in EAsT camPUS
  2. A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius
  3. You should live in Burton-Conner!
  4. Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13
  5. What do Alums do?
  6. Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel!
  7. Summertime
  8. Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13
  9. Mattress Dominoes!
  10. What YOU’RE Doing This Summer!
  11. Money! Money! Money!
  12. Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13
  13. Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food
  14. Celebrating the Moon Landing
  15. A Story
  16. Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13
  17. Keep in mind
  18. What have you been doing lately?
  19. Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle)
  20. Stay Tuned
  21. Idoor 1
  22. A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again
  23. What Are YOU Up To This Summer?
  24. Seven Years of Good Luck
  25. Hits from the ‘90s
  26. Alternative Transportation

June 2009

  1. Vroom Vroom!
  2. One 1031
  3. I Climbed a Mountain Today
  4. Snapshot #1
  5. Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt
  6. Dorms
  7. Hello, Layover (Part Two)
  8. Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows
  9. Know when to hold ‘em
  10. Campos on Campus
  11. MITiplication
  12. MITwitter
  13. Photo Scavenger Hunt
  14. Campus visit, revisited
  15. Lost and Found
  16. In which I show no restraint whatsoever
  17. I put on my robe and graduation hat
  18. Comments-ment Webcast
  19. Commencement Webcast
  20. The Grandest of Road Trips

May 2009

  1. What happened since the end.
  2. Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I)
  3. Outside the box
  4. Laptop
  5. Back Home
  6. Where are you going, where have you been?
  7. Going Home
  8. Removing a hack
  9. Epilogue
  10. Athena, Deliver Us From Finals
  11. *waves goodbye*
  12. Finals Week…A Different View
  13. Past Enrollment On A Map
  14. And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining.
  15. One Giant Leap
  16. Procrastination For Finals 2
  17. My first real internship
  18. Wolfram Alpha Tonight!
  19. Still Going…
  20. The End.
  21. Being First is Important
  22. Procrastination For Finals
  23. The Waitlist, 2009
  24. Exhibitions@MIT
  25. Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now
  26. What now suckas!?
  27. A Brief History of Thursday
  28. Info for the Class of 2013
  29. My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p)
  30. I’m on a boat!
  31. The Other CPW
  32. This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE]
  33. This week in verse

April 2009

  1. An Explanation
  2. CPW Photograph-athon
  3. Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure
  4. Hack Safari
  5. Tattoo ideas
  6. Waitlist and transfer: quick update
  7. Support MIT Sports!!
  8. Practice Safe Hacking
  9. Got Questions?
  10. Mind Dump (Episode 4)
  11. CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no
  12. Patriots’ Day
  13. CPW roundup
  14. On MIT and Humanities
  15. HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events
  16. ZOMG CPW and other acronyms
  17. What to expect when you’re expecting CPW
  18. The Calm Before the Storm
  19. Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been
  20. Leadership Training Institute
  21. We Want You!
  22. Singing with a Local Filk Group
  23. CPW is for Parents Too…
  24. Nerdy adventures on the West Coast
  25. Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind
  26. I’M BACK!!!
  27. Chocolate!!!
  28. Red Sox
  29. Springtime
  30. The Value of Creativity
  31. Decide my major!
  32. Inherent Asymmetry
  33. How to get around MIT hunger pangs
  34. MIT is “Hacked”

March 2009

  1. Fresh Food!
  2. Some reflections
  3. Friendship
  4. Sixth Sense
  5. New York
  6. MIT Talks Energy at the White House
  7. College Fair!
  8. Admitted Students Meetings…
  9. Writing Science Fiction
  10. College
  11. Thank Goodness!
  12. Come to MIT
  13. Spring Break!
  14. More Information on the Waitlist
  15. SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA!
  16. Admitted Students Update
  17. We’re Linux!
  18. For the Admitted Students
  19. For the Not Admitted Students
  20. MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online
  21. Open Forum for Admitted Students
  22. Open Forum for those Not Admitted
  23. Open Forum for Waitlisted Students
  24. One last bit of advice
  25. About Tomorrow
  26. This entry has a surprise ending
  27. This One is for the Families…
  28. Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana?
  29. Just a Yellow Lemon Tree…
  30. I have such cool friends!
  31. A little something while you wait.
  32. Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14
  33. Nano @ MIT
  34. Not here!
  35. I hurt myself again
  36. Hosed 1
  37. ILGs at MIT
  38. A Run through Boston
  39. Square Root Day
  40. Snow Day? No Way!
  41. Snow snow snow.
  42. Dorm Bathrooms
  43. Winter Storm Warning

February 2009

  1. Things You Shouldn’t Do
  2. Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP
  3. IAP and Igloos
  4. February updates
  5. The rest of my life
  6. It’s Monday
  7. The Rainbow Lounge
  8. Things that are awesome
  9. Things that Scare Me
  10. Reg Day collisions
  11. To D or not to D?
  12. My schedule
  13. Valentine’s Day Special
  14. Special Edition!
  15. MIT Admissions
  16. Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What?
  17. My Schedule Is Awesome
  18. The Places You’ll Go
  19. Freebie Part II
  20. MITblogs: The Next Generation
  21. Not a Real Entry
  22. The 2011 Brass Rat!
  23. A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels
  24. Today
  25. N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix”
  26. 101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2)
  27. 25 things and another reason to come to CPW.
  28. As Winter Melts
  29. Integration Bee
  30. A Conner 2 Trip to the North End

January 2009

  1. Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85
  2. 2.670 Wrapup
  3. This title is irrelevant
  4. Application Tracking now available
  5. IAP: A Quick Roundup
  6. I wake to sleep
  7. Stomp the Yard, MIT style
  8. All About Toys
  9. Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!]
  10. So let’s build a snowman. In the moat.
  11. IAP: The Class Edition
  12. Good Will Mystery Hunting
  13. Today is a Super Important Day
  14. EA Telethon
  15. Yet Another Blog Entry
  16. 101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1)
  17. Livescribe’s Pulse Pen
  18. IAP in Review: Week One
  19. I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard)
  20. I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)
  21. Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam
  22. Working at a Toy Company!
  23. How I got mugged in the frozen foods section.
  24. A Word of Warning (Pay Attention)
  25. MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3
  26. I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10?
  27. What’s new?
  28. Dining
  29. My Guilty Pleasure
  30. Questions? Answers.
  31. Happy New Year!

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