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  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  Edward wrote: “Are the differences in education systems around the world taken into account when considering international applicants?” No. We evaluate everything based on the US system. For example, students…

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  Sam already told you about AppleBake, but I figured I could throw in some pictures too. As Sam mentioned, our floor, Conner 2, goes kind of insane about AppleBake. We’re…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education. You can read it: Some…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week was pretty intense: 6.021J – Quantitative Physiology I – Cells and Tissues – One 12…

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  When most people say they have a UROP, you can immediately imagine them sitting at a lab bench while wearing a white lab coat, safety glasses, and gloves. If Anna…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original, and best overall. Can anyone guess which category…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• 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