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

  

  ) spent this evening at MIT. Though she was born in London and raised in Rhode Island, Lahiri spent some of her childhood in Boston and ... and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from

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

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100 ... . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... it doesn't count because my birthday is in December, and I have already

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was ... , that's almost as much time as I spent in class in high school! Hopefully

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  in eighth grade my class went to the local high school to see a ... . It was then that I decided I wanted to do theater in high school. So ... a very strong theatrical arts program that anyone could take part in

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  watched the show from first airing you'd notice how she didn't fit in and ... her infractions and all in real life. Okay, no way, Ana Lucia rocked ... in Resident Evil. Oh man she was awesome in Resident Evil. Anyway, yeah

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... everyone - especially those in the MIT community (and that includes you ... as an undergraduate. After four years in Course 2, and twenty years in

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I ... 're in a major for which it's required. Also, because they're computer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of ... people who lists all the colleges they got into in their AIM profile. (As ... . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to demonstrate a strong passion or proficiency in something - playing a sport won

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at ... perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an ... you've all been picturing it in your heads all summer and are just dying

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the ... 't be a wuss and say "But there are fourteen hundred entrieeeees in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  computer in grad school. I suppose I should mention, in case it wasn ... Like Laura, I also read up a storm in the summer. I (re-)read Robert ... Monkeyluv last week, and I am currently in the middle of a book I've been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  and sign up for ten groups, because, hey, you did ten things in high ... because I live in the boondocks and it annoys me to go back to campus after ... any cheer expereince in high school, but I was wondering if it is a pre

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II ... the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Happy Organic Chemistry II Day! I ... of the year and then miss it? So, Mollie did that entry about life in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6-9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week off! Just got back today - 1000+ emails in my inbox - good times

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  descrptions in the course catalogue, with my own impressions underneath. 7 ... information in simple systems, and detection and information coding during ... quantitative than you'd think (in general, neuroscience is more quantitative than

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... by MIT?" IB is generally equivalent to AP in terms of academic rigor

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  in Harrisburg, PA and I thought I'd spend it posting old photos on this ... credit card fraud, and cashed in my winning lottery ticket. Despite having ... purcahsed a lottery ticket in my otherwise typical suburban life. So, on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  of clubs in school to activities that help to relieve human suffering ... ! The amount of passion in your applications. WOW! It does the soul good ... of you are chomping at the bit to jump right in. As the Black Eyed Peas

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  than we do. If you are interested in playing on a varsity sports team at ... form. If you are interested in our music community, consider sending in a music recording. If you are interested in our art community, considering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005