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• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  one of their summer interns. I'm really learning a lot (including more ... language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants ... elliptical quad in front of one of their libraries and for some reason is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  many of you — students and parents — are concerned about the future ... about the economic, social, and environmental stability of the world. For ... , because of the difficult times — I hope you will come here with the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my last post, I mentioned that I was in the process of building an 8x10 ... , polishing the brass and oiling the cherry, with the hope of having the camera

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  of the process instead. Most of the comments/questions I received last ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it ... one piece of your folder that will cause us to admit or not admit you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  'm driving back home with my parents to spend the last few days of summer in CT ... francisco in the middle of the Nevada desert which would be my first time out ... shelter, the Laplacetopede, named in honor of the great mathematician, along

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... . But, through very valiant perseverance (and a lot of Youtube music ... -you-can-eat, but instead of being able to leave after you're comfortably full, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I ... references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already ... well. First of all, I like being an urban planning major. I’m taking a ... language class (French III). I’m also getting an Institute requirement out of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics. Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the ... you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  asked, Is it bad if we can't understand what most of this actually ... lot of the experiments I do involve getting cells to take up foreign DNA or RNA, and I can do that using a variety of methods. 3. Danielle

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  So one of the questions that I am frequently asked my prospective ... topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right ... undergraduate population of approximately four thousand people from all walks of

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. Here are some of yesterday ... some of us not recieved our financial aid packages yet? I know I got all of my information in on time. Why did we not recieve our financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  really out of hand. So, here's what happened: some anonymous person made ... "convenient" that the amount of self-selectivity in the female applicant pool ... that I've even been slightly skeptical of that in the past. Anyway, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sick of grad school interviews. I've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in biology, and eat lots of free food and stay in free hotels and fly using

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world ... , and walking around on the floor of 10-250. Okay. This was especially

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  10 days of: Nausea :: Vomiting :: Diarrhea :: High Fever :: Dry cough ... and can address ANY potential route of virus transmission. For poster ... Screening: "The Name of the Disease" with introduction by Filmmakers Abhijit V

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  plenty to keep me busy. Here are some of the many events from this time of ... reminder of the dorm-wide pumpkin carving study break this Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in the Porter Room. We have obtained carts full of the biggest (i

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  hosing. So I will post about what I did this week - a sort of "sample week in the life of an MIT student" thing. Psets/Projects -7.03 (Genetics ... ). Yeesh. E&M neurophysics problems and Matlab implementations of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005