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Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

In today’s The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom’s most respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane ’11, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, authors an article commenting on alcohol…

by Matt McGann '00
June 22, 2008

Blog / MIT Life

In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey everyone, As you may know, I am not-so-secretly a blogger for MIT Admissions. I want…

by Paul B. '11
June 22, 2008

Blog / MIT Life

Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

Waaaaaaaah! You’ve moved on to ’13 already!? I don’t feel loved anymore! Waaaaaah! Yikes guys, chill! You’re like, 2 months away from MIT, it’s time to accept the fact that…

by Snively '11
June 21, 2008

Blog / About Decisions

Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now, the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as any to do so. The numbers…

by Matt McGann '00
June 20, 2008

Blog / Events

The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

[I know this is WAY overdue, since Ring Delivery was a while ago, but I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to leave it alone…

by Jess K. '10
June 18, 2008

Blog / Admissions

Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students. Each time we write a blog entry we have to pick a label for it.…

by Snively '11
June 15, 2008

Blog / Academics & Research

Happiness in threes

Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS and switch between English and Spanish, so I can now write with accent marks and…

by Laura N. '09
June 14, 2008

Blog / MIT History & Culture

Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

There are currently a little over 2,500 blogs entries on this site. I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a lot to take in all at once. I…

by Paul B. '11
June 13, 2008

Blog / Admissions

Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you are. Let’s face it, you just spent the last four years of your life jockeying…

by Snively '11
June 13, 2008

Blog / Academics & Research

The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

You’d think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would be MIT. It’s so obvious but up until today I’ve ignored this awesome resource right at my fingertips. You…

by Lulu L. '09
June 12, 2008

Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

Boston and MIT. Weird names. Hard to pronounce names. Names made harder to pronounce because they have special weird pronunciations courtesy of the Boston population. A while ago I gave…

by Snively '11
June 11, 2008

Blog / Athletics

Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

This morning I went for a miserably hot run along a busy road by my house and I decided that I really missed the Charles River and the Zesiger Center.…

by Melis A. '08
June 11, 2008

Blog / Academics & Research

Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when the farthest thing on my mind right now is MIT. BUT – I feel like if…

by Chris S. '11
June 10, 2008

Blog / Academics & Research

I My Spanish adventures!

Como vosotros debéis saber, voy a pasar el verano trabajando con Telefónica en Madrid. Pues, llegué el sábado pasado- entonces, hace dos semanas enteras que he vivido aquí. Tengo una…

by Laura N. '09
June 9, 2008

Blog / Events

The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

June 2008 seemed an eternity away when I first arrived on MIT’s campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won’t be a sappy reflective entry (that…

by Melis A. '08
June 7, 2008

Blog / MIT History & Culture

Graduation Some commencement pictures.

They say that today’s graduation theme was “MIT students in service of the world”, but really, it was more akin to, “Ponchos”. We awoke to ominous dark skies today and…

by Lulu L. '09
June 6, 2008

Blog / Admissions

Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a good title. Oh well, that’s life. I’ll start off by saying that I’m writing…

by Snively '11
June 4, 2008

Blog / Academics & Research

Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

I’m happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my freshman year, stayed on campus, that is, working with the LIGO burst team, next to…

by Lulu L. '09
June 4, 2008

Blog / Academics & Research

The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

I spent today playing with yeast cells, and I couldn’t be happier. Let me back up. As you may already know, this summer, I’m working with Professor Angelika Amon of…

by Paul B. '11
June 2, 2008

Blog / MIT History & Culture

Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

On May 18th I wrote a blog entry called “Ring Committee” which was about as popular as anything else I write amongst a prefrosh audience but went over like a…

by Snively '11
May 31, 2008