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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  Yesterday I carried my camera around all day and took awkward pictures of my friends. (Hi, Sam.) What made this different from all the other days when I carry my…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this entry and knew exactly what to expect when they clicked it? I know that at least Chris…

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of recommendation — one from a math or science teacher (“Evaluation A”) and one from a humanities teacher (“Evaluation…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  Several weeks ago a kid, a sophomore on my floor, contracted a strand of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn’t actually started, so…

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  [by Ken Haggerty ’11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central Square Theater, ticket in one hand and notebook in the other, I wasn’t quite sure what…

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the traditions that temper the pains of work and study with the welcome relief of warm homemade dinners. A late-evening…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of it. I finished half of my 2.671 homework, half of 2.008, and half…

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule! Listen to me blather on . . .

  

  • by Snively '11
  • September 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  Registration week was a heinous tangle of scheduling; seven (7) classes knotted my temporal ropes into a gnarly mess, wrapping up any loose pieces of slack time between 7 AM…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  School is back in session, and I know the question burning in the back of everyone’s mind is “Chris, WHAT have you been doing?” (or depending on the converstaion, it…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  I don’t make schedules or use planners. In fact, I don’t even use Google Calendar. It is slightly amusing to see fellow classmates toting multicolored, multi-ringed, colorful planning books complete…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  O.M.G. It’s over, finally. For the last two weeks all of the upperclassmen have been orienting the froshies, and now it’s over. You may have noticed a severe drop off…

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  So I realized that despite not having left MIT, I haven’t written on this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking that the…

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  One new section of our application this year distinguishes between “scholastic” and “non-scholastic” distinctions. The questions read: List any scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles, discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry, preheated an oven…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who’ve followed me closely these last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I actually…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  My name is Chris Peterson. My title – all Serious People have titles, and I am nothing if not Serious – is Admissions Counselor for Web Communications at the Massachusetts…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  The MIT Class of 2013 has officially arrived! With this day upon us, we conclude the series Introducing the Class of 2013. Merritt ’13 Carlos ’13 Edward ’13 John ’13…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ahead like infinite corridors. A year ago:…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  There’ve been several times when I felt like I didn’t really fit in at MIT. I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn’t a result of sleep…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009