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  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  I’ve done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it’s time to turn the attention specifically to you, the wide-eyed and apparently confused applicants. I’m not…

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can’t make my lab printer duplex. Can you come fix it? No. Anonymous said: SOMEWHERE… there’s a photo of a Burton-Conner room also…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to visit MIT yet. They may never walk the tunnels before they decide to apply. A brave…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied things I might want to be when I grow up? Well, I think “interior decorator” is going…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  This semester, almost all of my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays take place in Building 4. (Yes, that’s its actual name: Building 4. What, you actually expect MIT kids to…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  This started off being a comment in snively’s entry. Then it branched off, sprouted leaves and thorns and eventually grew legs and started running around out of control, so I…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  To be honest, my weekend mornings are probably less exciting than yours, especially if you spend them in riveted perusal of my fascinating blog posts. On Friday nights, while the…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  Alright, my first serious, thought-out blog entry in quite some time. I’m discovering something about sophomore year, well, a lot of things, but a few key ones. 1) Classes are…

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  This time of year, Educational Counselors all over the world are taking your calls, receiving your emails, setting up interviews and writing reports about their meetings with you. For some…

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  So, a few weeks ago, Matt gave me an excellent idea for content: recycling! So, welcome to “Flashback: Part 1,” where my older and wiser senior self will laugh herself…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say “I really need to eat and I also really need to do 2.005 but I only have time to do one, which…

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let’s get down to business. Buying cookies and arguing about peanut butter are frivolous, if funny, activities. I’d like to dedicate this post to my experience so far…

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  Well as you may have heard from various other blogs, this week served up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  [by Katharine Chu ’09, Guest Blogger] I was once told, “If you come into MIT wanting to do the same thing as when you leave without even wondering once if…

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  It’s October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep-fried broccoli flower, and the crunchiness…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  “Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago, Mankind would be sitting around the cave, eating raw mastodon parts, and he’d say, “Marge, I have a…

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  Yesterday morning, something odd appeared on MIT’s campus… It was a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a “hack” at MIT is clever, elegant, and anonymous prank, designed…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  As far as admissions counselors go, I am relatively new to the MIT community. Over the past couple of months, I have been exploring this wild and wacky place called…

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  [by Susan Shepherd ’11] It was 5:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in June, and Paul Baranay ’11, Jesse Ashcraft-Johnson ’11, Jonathan Chapman ’11, and I had at least another…

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how the interviewer will evaluate you in the process and what role the interview plays in selection so while…

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008