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  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  After my kickboxing class today I ran to the Bush Room and just finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to congratulate Early Action students on getting…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Are You Stressed? Everything will be juuuuuust fine.

  

   

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer of snow and the crew team is stuck inside the boathouse while our beloved river is frozen…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at http://my.mit.edu. Complete your MIT Midyear Report now.The MIT Midyear Report is an online form that is…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students…

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first batch came out underdone, but a friend gave me a different method and the next batch…

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common? This: (video credit: Tony Eng) The official description of LeaderShape, as detailed by MIT’s Division of Student Life,…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  UROPs. You’ve heard about them before, but here’s a refresher. At MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of undergrads who would love the opportunity to…

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  Hi y’all – Quick update for our Regular Action applicants. As Matt posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year.…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students…

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  IAP stands for many things. For those people just chilling on campus, It’s A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working, It’s A Pain. For Chris M.…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  You’re sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie novel and one eye on the TV, which is showing the latest episode of Sherlock (you have trained…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should get a haircut.…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  Imagine a field where by day children play soccer among smoldering fire pits, grazing water buffalo and men hauling logs. Occasionally, a group of American college students come along and…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton Center, where I work most mornings. As usual, I looked up in Lobby 7, more as…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and for most people, they go through a rotation as the year goes round and temperatures and conditions rise…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present presence of our preexisting expectations of admissions blogs, unburdened of the literary coherency associated with the formal…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation Research Board meeting, and then a conference on sustainable transportation called Transforming Transportation. Flying down was a bit nerve…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  IAP has been a time of very… well, different learning than I had during my first semester at MIT. The past two weeks have been surprisingly productive, tiring and relaxing…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012