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  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  It’s been nearly three months since I graduated MIT. With the freshman class starting school tomorrow, it’s strange to think that I won’t be returning to my beloved 254 suite…

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  It was as bad as I suspected it would be. Turns out I have 5 hasses and no science class. Help me pick a science class! Help me seriously drop…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  Today, the Class of 2012 formally register for classes and thus become official college students! Often, I get emails asking what the students we admit are like. Who are they?…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  last night, in the hallway ANGELA MONSTER: Allin and I are going to Economy Hardware tomorrow morning. ME: Oh, can I come? I need to buy blinds. ANGELA MONSTER: Sure,…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our very outdated website here: It’s almost exactly one year old! I get a lot of questions…

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  When I was a freshman, an upperclassman friend of mine described MIT like this: “You can tell what we care about by the way we introduce ourselves. Invariably, we give…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? John McCain is 2.41 Saturn years old. Funny story. On the way to dinner tonight we were discussing Adelaide ’09 and her role as our floor’s “Moral…

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  Something happened to me this summer. I’m not sure exactly when or how it took place, or if it had anything to do with me becoming a senior citizen, but…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the “tou xiang” – a phrase that alludes to the traditional “tou xiang,” a Chinese practice that is meant…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled “Copyright, Subpoenas, and You.” I laughed. Of course they’d have to remind MIT students about this, the tech…

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  Trivia: This year’s admit rate was 11.9%. What was the admit rate for my class, the MIT Class of 2000, when we were admitted in 1996? [answer at the end…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  Trivia: Who was the first student blogger for MIT Admissions? And who is the most senior of the current student bloggers? [answer at the end of the entry] You may…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why no blogs!? I'm busy, ok?

  

  Why no entries lately? Because MIT’s Freshman Orientation is in full swing and everybody on campus is crazy busy. With what? Stuff like the East vs. West Water War from…

  • by Snively '11
  • August 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I had a perfect view of Cambridge and Boston out my window. The plane was flying…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  Trivia: Which MIT Professor was the top scorer for the first US International Math Olympiad team in 1974, and what freshman class does this professor teach? [answer at the end…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules just appeared the other…

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I’m back in the US, and it’s weird. The first thing I noticed as I stepped out of Logan International Airport Saturday night was, “whoa, air can hold moisture,…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston to provide the chance to participate in random, spontaneous, fun events with large groups of…

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  Since everyone seems to have Olympic fever these days (Michael Phelps! Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh! Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin!), I thought I’d take a look back at MIT…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  The next few weeks are going to be something different. To start, it is 3:30 am Friday night and I am moving back to EC tomorrow starting 11am. I don’t…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008