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• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  I’ve been involved, in some form or fashion, with MIT Admissions for 4 years now. I’ll be honest, I used to know a whole lot more about it, back when…

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  So it’s mid July, Summer is well underway, all the major Holidays have passed (read: the 4th) so what’s your favorite blogger up to? I don’t know, I’ll go ask…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  Late last night, I cut the brakes on the Sleep-8-Hours-Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to cast the situation in the linguistic frame of…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I’m sitting in a hotel in Portland Oregon absolutely surrounded by prefrosh. Why am I absolutely surrounded by prefrosh? Because…

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back to his room with him to see his hydraulic door. To this day he…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of pearl-white private yachts and…

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

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  After reading my last blog, Jola from Poland also wanted to let me know that, she, in fact, also just climbed a mountain (at 2000 meters – compared to that,…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples in the…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for that matter, I have an account for just about everything, but by no means use all of them. They’re…

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  At approximately 11:20 pm on Tuesday night, Charles stepped on the pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 mph in the gaspingly brief time required…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  I have a friend named Charles Guan ’11. He was my lab partner in 2.004 and I’ve worked with him on a variety of other projects. He’s always building something…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he wouldn’t mind if maybe he reclined his chair in her space just a little…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  …well, yesterday. Phew, it’s been long without blogging! During this long hiatus, I’ve been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on sleep, eating many yummy things, and completed…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  Tuesday morning, I excused myself from de-insectifying MATLAB scripts for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into concrete sidewalk grids, swollen with rain delicately infused with the…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  Much like the luminiferous aether theory, the Photo Scavenger Hunt seemed like a good idea at the time, but the results were sparse. The two photos I did get were…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different dorms because unless you’ve lived there, you can’t describe it. Sure, I could tell you my impression, but…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  Now that things have calmed down a bit at work, I finally have some more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I’ve been wanting…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  This, potentially, is the longest I’ve gone without a blog entry. This is probably due to the fact that I’m not on campus and, while I’d like to blog about…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  Hey everybody. I must confess that if I were not a college admissions officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like to…

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009