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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band’s coveted SPAM scholarship. As those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  I grew up in Elgin, IL and I’m a huge White Sox fan (sorry Astro fans). Even though Elgin is northwest of Chicago (and most northsiders are Cubs fans), my…

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  I often hear students say that colleges control their destinies and that the admissions process is all about whom the colleges admit and not about the students’ choices. With all…

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  I’m a bit under the weather today, and I’m still working on the next Omnibus, so it’s time for more odds & ends… The band Hot Hot Heat will play…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  Well, it’s pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8:30 as usual for my 9:30 Tuesday/Thursday class, 9.15 (biochemistry and pharmacology of synaptic transmission). But I…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the Porter Room Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever! Apples will be provided by…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  Though I haven’t had internet for the past week, there has still been plenty to keep me busy. Here are some of the many events from this time of year,…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  So I began this entry on Sunday night, but am just getting around to finishing it now. I’ll share why. So at home, we had a little pipe burst in…

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  Good evening, America. I could give you another cool story laced with pictures and captions. I’ll start with some thoughts. We’re almost halfway through term, and it feels like I…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  With Hurricane Wilma bearing down on Florida, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our minds, and the early action deadline…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  Yay, you guys asked me questions! And now, I will try to answer them. Timur Sahin asks, “Forget admissions, housing, et al. Where do you see your MIT education taking…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  Friday night was Burton 3rd’s “Anything But Clothes” party, which is exactly what it sounds like. I personally had no intention of going, but I knew two of my best…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT overnight program. Be sure to sign up early and sign up often, to increase your chances of…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), which is located just down the road from MIT! I pass this spiffy new building every…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  Okay, so it’s really 52, but who’s counting? So far I’ve been fairly serious with my entries about the college admissions process. I think that it’s time for me to…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  Well, Parents Weekend was last weekend, but my mom is unconventional (read: cheap; there were no cheap tickets from Columbus to Boston last weekend) and decided to create her own…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I’d like to do is to blog every day ’til eternity passes away, just to share them with…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  Kidding about the annual part. :-) Catching up with my blog comments… finally! ———————— Shikhar wrote: “I am a bit confused regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to…

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  Each Wednesday, The Weekly Dig (my favorite rag) hits the newsstands. It’s generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage with a healthy dose of comedy thrown in.…

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  The field hockey team is doing awesome this year, (The Tech even wrote an article about us breaking records!) but when we lose, we lose spectacularly. Like last night, we…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005