6. Fun Stuff
6. Fun Stuff
This blog is officially closed and will now only exist as an archive of past posts.
Please visit the new blog at http://daniel.mitblogs.com.
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Some pics of my first day in Aspen. If you click on the picture, it will take you to a (much) larger image of the same photo.
The following photos were taken by the John Denver Sanctuary, a beautful public park in downtown Aspen dedicated
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Tomorrow morning, I will be jet setting across the continent as I make my way to Aspen, Colorado for the bi-annual (in this case, every other year) COFHE Financial Aid Director's Retreat. For those of you who do not know, COFHE is the Consortium on Financing
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Hi there.
In wandering the Infinite today, I picked up the most recent issue of Counterpoint, a great independent student publication published jointly by Wellesley and MIT students. The latest copy is entitled “Crunch Time” and has some interesting
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The Galapagos Islands are an amazing place. If you haven't read about them, or seen a “Nova” episode on them, you may not understand what I mean, but the ability to see wildlife “up close and personal” as well as to walk in Darwin's footsteps is a once-in-a-lifetime
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http://abc.go.com/primetime/scholar/
I'm going to watch it. Are you?
Maybe next year they'll make me a judge!
(A preview on the show is at http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/05/16/tv)
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Today, I set up my facebook profile. I hope to have many friends (and eventually to upload a picture). There were some questions on the set up of my profile I simply didn't feel like sharing the answers to, though. Hmmm... wonder if there ever comes
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This is message from the future. Or the past. It all depends on your perspective:
This weekend at MIT a graduate student will be hosting the first and only time traveler convention for any of you who want to travel back (or forward, I guess) to join
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So, CPW is over, and today I went back to the real world -- following up on appeals, returning phone calls, reading files, etc. etc.
I had an AWESOME Campus Preview Weekend, but much (all) of my time was spent visiting with students and families on a
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First the news:
Autumn was down over the weekend. It appears to be back up now!
We mailed 100 awards today, bringing us to files that completed as of last Friday. We still have many of you we would like to award. GET YOUR FORMS IN!!!
We will
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Happy Day to all! (And take a look at today's home page for a visual description of ).
I haven't seen anyone wandering down the hall dressed as a this morning (or any other reasonable facsimile), but that is not to say that won't be served at lunch,
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All of you who apply for aid will go through a process called verification. In this process, we confirm the information you provided to us against all of the other information we have from you (your tax returns, your W-2 forms, your 1099 forms, etc.,
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A poem from my muse, Emily Dickinson, to lift your spirits in these last few weeks:
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -And
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For those of you who want to know the answer to the Griddler below, here it is!!! You can link to the Excel file here or the Word file here. I'll also post a picture, but later in case anyone is still working on it.
Now on to the solution to the most
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So, given that it is almost March 1st and tensions are running high, I thought I would do my part to diffuse them.
I find when I am stressed, logic puzzles help me take my mind off my concerns. One of my favorite kinds of logic puzzles is the “Paint
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So as promised, here are some more photos of the people and places I see everyday at MIT.
Where I reside:
Our full-time staff who answer the phones (left to right they are Joanne Johnson and Emily Bassett):
Two of the several students who answer
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So, inspired by a friend's blog, I present the first Money @ MIT iTunes lyrics game. Here is how this works: I will post 10 lyrics from a random selection of iTunes songs on my computer. The first person to correctly identify all 10 song titles and
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Well, given that I commented in my last post about my enjoyment of music, I thought I should go ahead and do the obligatory “pick up your mp3 player, put it on random mode, and write down the first ten songs that play” post. For those of you only here
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