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  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  (Written while on a Boeing 737 somewhere between Seattle, WA and Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West Coast. After an early morning…

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  In case you haven’t noticed, I’m blogging less frequently now. There are at least two reasons behind this, one that’s my choosing and the other that’s just happenstance. The first…

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  Hurricane Ike left Houston badly damaged. Thankfully, our home escaped relatively unscathed, just a few scattered tree limbs here and there. The house was without electricity and running water for…

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  If you walk down Massachusetts Avenue to the Charles River esplanade and cross the Harvard Bridge without getting knocked over by a militant stampede of Nike-shod joggers, you can congratulate…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  1702, Bologna, Italy It’s late in the afternoon, and the sunlight is streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto the worn, cobblestoned city square. Aside from…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  As you begin your MIT application and other college applications, I thought I’d give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most errors I see are not in…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  Several weeks ago MIT had their famous fall Career Fair where hundreds of companies come and court hundreds of students. It’s a time when students update resumes, dry clean suits,…

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute is all about working hard, finishing problem sets, writing code, curing cancer, and otherwise having no fun at…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  Professor Leeb, my 6.131 Professor, notices if we’re late. So I tend to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34-101. I was moving…

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  So I’m sick right now. Again. It’s some lovely combination of fever, nausea, and other TMI that I’ll spare you the details of, but basically, I was sick when classes…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  Tonight, I emerged from a coma of essay-writing and unglued my gaze from OpenOffice long enough to wander up two flights of stairs and straight into a delirious, dripping dream.…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  This post is way overdue, but I figure – better late than never. Here are some more updates on my travels thus far (I made it a “supersize” edition)! Michigan…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  “I like how you say that with a smile on your face,” my hallmate Vinayak ’09 told me that Sunday night, genuinely pleased. “‘Oh I was just working in studio…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  I know what you’re thinking, “Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I be so lucky!?” Well thanks, I’m flattered. Anyway, that’s enough ego stroking for the day, the…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Kim’s observations on the interview and our interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current…

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  As some of you may have noticed, the world didn’t end on Wednesday like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it’s still there). Which…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  Wow. I’ve had an intense week. And it’s only Wednesday. Now, finally, I’ve gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here on out, and therefore I…

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  Inspired by the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Theme Song Now this is the story all about how My life got flipped turned upside down And I’d like to take a…

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  Hence the not-having-written-anything-yet. So hi, my name’s Shannon. I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Furniture Capital of the World and proud birthplace of both the Holland Tulip Time Festival and the…

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  Some days begin with ballistic alarms and spilled coffee and calculus homework. Some days begin with silence. I woke up on Sunday morning, a translucent silence filling the room. Dawn-ish…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008