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  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  course of the day. I'll update this entry whenever there's something to ... stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team ... in the mail. I'm not sure of the exact number of admits, but it is very

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  that refreshing. For some reason, instead of giving proportionally less ... reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it due earlier. I am not a huge fan of this logic, as it ends up feeling

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

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  part of the week. "Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd..." MIT Musical ... where most of the action took place. Surgeon General's Warning: This musical is not for the weak stomached. It involves mild acts of cannibalism

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

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... doors. Here is the first glimpse you get of the Lego Learning Lab: And

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  of astronauts by creating new spacecrafts that generate artificial gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure ... environment by using a centrifuge that consisted of a two meter bed that a test

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  Name:Jenny Rifken Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois High school: Larkin High School College: University of Michigan, 1995, English Language and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is ... keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So ... throughput evaluation of drugs under development by simulating a liver through

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  to see what kind of deals we could find. Trekking down the Infinite ... a room on the second floor of Building Four where they were casting ... stairwell of Building 4, an intrigued Diana looks at the sign advertising the

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al ... Mauritius (Geraldine), and of course to meet many of the parents, too (hi!). The "Meet the Bloggers" party was a lot of fun, not because anything

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite ... of being an admissions officer, and I'm not sure if during that time I ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of ... application portals open, and deadlines fast approaching, I am reminded of the bulk of conversations that I have had about essays, right around this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  This past semester, I haven't been taking much care of myself. Lately ... ="6.009 is Fundamentals of Python. It's usually the second or third ... about 10 hours to complete. If you are on the better end of the CS scale

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  view out of my kitchen window every day, featuring the moon, the Charles ... some sort of [annotation note="i watched lady bird (2017) a few days ... . highly recommend."]cliche coming of age movie.[/annotation] It really is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  of summer Cambridge activities. Now, like everything else, these have ... that they can shout dinosaur facts at me with the help of some CADding ... weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years ... of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk,” and I suspect that I will share some of them in due time.  However, as I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art ... the event, providing each floor of the dorm with staple ingredients such as flour, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, butter, and, of course, apples. This

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... friend that you’ve just met understanding only half of what someone just ... was in your calendar the scent of rain the act of looking for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away He was full of great one-liners and aphorisms, but one that stuck out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking ... The New Yorker.[/annotation] taking pictures of black holes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019