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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for showing, among other things, that people in…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  So REX or Residence Exploration began on Sunday afternoon with a kickoff that started in Kresge. The real fun started at about 5 pm on Sunday afternoon with the annual…

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX), which you can read about in everybody else’s blog. Basically, during the first week of orientation, you get to…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT’s alumni magazine is a real publication sold on newsstands that people…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I’m not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the country who attend Clay Aiken…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Sam’s Mom successfully conspired with Mitra to drag me to the Clay Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I’m by far the biggest fan of…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  miT-REX Residence Exploration (REX) begins.

  

  Consider these photos for now to be like a movie trailer without sound:

  • by Bryan
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little poster on which are listed “101 Things To Do Before You Graduate”. Out of curiosity, I picked up a…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I’m a little exhausted from answering questions right now, so this is going to be brief — the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  ant06 wrote, “is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who’s teaching you a subject you are not planning to further pursue, as against the teacher teaching your…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  [I’m at MIT now, but wrote this entry earlier today while still travelling.] For months, I’ve been looking forward to the day I’d be leaving for college. I talk to…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  So summer kind of comes to an end today. Orientation starts next week, and then comes Rush and classes. Now, I will say this, I had an absolute blast this…

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam’s Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I’ll finish up this entry when I’m safely and comfortably back in room 224C. While we’re…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  Three days until the US Open officially begins! As an engineer, I’ll give some numbers: – 125 = number of years the US Open has been around – 1,100,000 =…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of clothing, has now taken to paying an entourage…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  … a new version of you? (Did anyone watch Felicity? These lyrics are from the theme song , which JJ Abrams, the creator of the show, wrote. Interestingly, Abrams is…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  So over the past couple of days, our FPOP has done some pretty cool stuff. Day One: – we heard a talk from a postdoc, Lyle Simmons, on DNA repair.…

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  A note about the title: when I was little, my mother (who is a 5th grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH — day off for…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens)High school: Benjamin N. Cardozo HSCollege: MIT ’86, mechanical engineeringFavorite thing about…

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

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  Every year, the campus is engulfed by frenetic activity in the week leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of the activity in my…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005