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• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... is. I've seen plenty of it before. I've seen it piled 3 feet high ... Halloween just weirds me out, man. Seriously. Yikes. Speaking of weird

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of ... share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  batteries in my camera. Rush - REX officially - is seriously one of the best times of the year. This will, of course, be my third - I've had one from the freshman point of view and one from the upperclassman point of view

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  . Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... We excited prefrosh also received the results of the HASS-D lottery. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from ... budget master) 2) Mari McQuaid, Assistant Director of Admissions 3) Martha Edison, writer and master wordsmith 4) Bryan Nance, Director of Minority

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  speaker will be Irwin Jacobs, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm ... 't know what Jacobs will say, but here is a list of previous MIT ... , Director of NIH 2003, George Mitchell, former US Senator 2002, James

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new admissions cycle (class of 2010 - woot!) and it's finally come to me. We had ... second year. But the "serious" stuff was only one part of the day. We also

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your ... gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your ... February 28.) Salvador takes 5 days of vacation in December and 2 days in

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can ... and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the ... inexcusable and all of us are beside ourselves in embarassment and frustration. We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Sciences, I set up my ... the National Academy of Sciences? I was there for the public exhibition of the finalist projects of the Intel Science Talent Search. I got to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback ... syndication feeds. Changed the design to allow for easier reading of entries

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  100% of MIT undergraduates study the humanities, arts, and social ... . The requirement deepens our students' knowledge in a variety of cultural and disciplinary areas and encourages the development of sensibilities and skills
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  Ciao. It is I, Jacky of the French Dormitory. My culinary journey, as ... that are authentic reflections of myself. A lot has happened in the ... for cooking. I believed cooking to be an expression of love – to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  content warning: mention of suicide. one I'm sick of all this, "How ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... with them. i'm on top of my work, and i don't want to kill myself. on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I ... . However, there always comes a point where a bedroom becomes more of refuge ... of the time? what do these feelings even mean?"]agonizing teenage self

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel ... to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find them relatable or interesting. But when I expressed this worry to one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... changed after months of milking goats and carefully calculating whether it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020