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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester, because individual class schedules for the fall term came out. (My very favorite day of the semester…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is posted here.  Yimin asks: What is interview like?…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Harrisburg Update: Yesterday, I biked 20 miles with Ben, see? I was trying to find myself but was unsuccessful. Then we went to Shawna’s house and played Guess Who with…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  So on Sunday, I turned 20. I am now OLD. Now since I have a summer birthday, I rarely ever have the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with my friends,…

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  Good evening. This is Ruth Miller, field reporter for Sam’s blog, coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The implication, of course, is euphemistically known…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  Okay, so tonight we were at Allison’s house and I didn’t take any pictures but I’ll steal some later from Allison’s xanga. Stealing is wrong and if you ever stole…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  Summer Motto #456-1A: Rock the free stuff, always. So following that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New England Aquarium to check out…

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so I’m back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus tomorrow evening. While waiting to…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  Yesterday, I went to Six Flags New England with Ling ’07, Erica ’07, Simon ’04, and Nick. Now, you might think that would be fairly expensive for a one day…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I’ll admit it: I’m stubborn. I like to say that I’m “tenacious”, but what I really mean is that I am set in my ways…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I’m now answering comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn’t resist over in Mollie’s neck…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip inspired by a friend’s wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday, but well…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  I survived moving to my fall room! (I realize this is silly. But moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal-retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor,…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  My dear friend Farhan ’05 (Course 9: Brain & Cognitive Sciences) recently won the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship. Read more about it here (MIT News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Pretty much every day, I remind my friends that “if you come up to Boston, I’ll find you a place to stay and show you around and we’ll all have…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Yesterday, I officially completed the 12-week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  Aha! We have a question! Jon asks “Also, I was wondering (uh oh here’s a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  So I know the entire world has been waiting anxiously for the release of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even throwing a blog…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005