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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  First off: The Tech ran an article about our site redesign / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech FPOP, interviewed Matt and I yesterday…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  Three days into my study abroad program and this is my classroom. Well we haven’t actually left the country yet, in many ways Detroit faces more challenges than the other…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  It’s August.  Campus is already buzzing to life.  Those friends who went off to distant lands for the summer are finally coming home, and freshmen are just starting to filter…

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  Michael Plasmeier, aka The Plaz, is a junior at MIT studying Course 6 (or EECS). His website – ThePlaz.com – also has a wiki, and on this wiki, he shares…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  This week, the new MIT freshman class begins arriving for orientation programs. (Classes will begin September 7) This year’s incoming MIT class is amazing. The students are awesome! Let me…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  If there’s one thing I am utterly terrible at, it is prioritizing. My top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more pressing Ideas Of The Now…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  Summer’s sunlit streams of serendipitous socializing (or solitude) are sadly shriveling.   My english teacher would be proud of that alliteration.   But I digress, after all I’m not here…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It’s my primary mode of transport when the weather is (reasonably) nice, it’s a great way to exercise. Hooray!…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  It’s been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course).  Since then, I’ve been on the ETOOMUCHADVENTURE side of things – the curse of a blogger’s…

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  Today, I accidentally dated a journal entry “18 August 2008”. As I realized my mistake and erased the year, I realized that 2008 was three years ago. People born on…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe it’s because yet another good friend of mine just had surgery for breast cancer, or…

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I’ve always felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by ‘always’ I mean ‘since I became…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2011. We received over 50 applications for just a few available spots. The vast majority were from incoming freshman, but there…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Once a year, a different US city hosts the annual National Poetry Slam, a week-long, no-holds-barred celebration of poetry that’s part competition, part exhibition, and 100% inspirational. This time around, both…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been…

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward freshmen guys because I’m going to talk about my rush). You’ve probably started packing for your adventure and I…

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  I just returned from a week’s “vacation” with family and friends. I put “vacation” in quotations not because it wasn’t wonderful – it was – but only because, as is…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  I’m finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I’ve spent the last 48…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris’s post on summer reading led to this: (I call this one Shoot Buttons, I Knew I Should Have Taken a Math…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011