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  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new bloggers. The response was overwhelming: we received 48 applications. With a 12.5% "blogger admit rate," it was almost as hard to be selected as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  the morning. If you haven't been to college yet, that might seem like a ... to my first class at 10:00, that's a pretty big switch. Just pointing ... the first one there! I suppose there's a lesson in here somewhere: no

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  ) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... . Kent Riley, a research scientist at the Nuclear Reactor Lab working with Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), and obtained a UROP that combines

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 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 ... sleeping in until 11 AM; I then rode my bike to the Student Center and ate a

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

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  I had a great time last week at ISEF. This is what it looked like ... awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the ... to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... section. In March, Les Perelman attended a national college writing conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office, including one on some awesome undergraduate research. A snippet: An MIT ... , more than a billion miles across. Emily Levesque, a junior in physics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4, (flexible mechanical engineering with a concentration in design ... brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  every morning. We also found something quite spectacular. IT'S A CAT CAFE! A CAFE WITH CATS! CAT CAT CAT!!! Kayla and I would just sit with ... were not just in Canada for the cats, so we had a shopping day with a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  check it out – they’re a great opportunity to meet some potential future classmates, as well as MIT students and alumni. Here is a taste of a few of the events this coming week. Check out your MyMIT portal

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  check it out – they’re a great opportunity to meet some potential future ... MIT! Here are a few highlighted events this coming week; see your MyMIT portal for the locations and times of these events, and for a comprehensive

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes ... I wrote a couple years ago (see below). As someone commented on Lydia

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my ... documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  admissions selection process. During that process, we notice a lot of ... 's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... give a lot of people trouble - it's physics, not pyhsics; physiology, not

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my family's basement, which contained my father's office, flooded during a terrible rain storm. My father, an electrical engineer who had swapped a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  amazing acts at the show: - Chorallaries (a cappella, co-ed) - Jacob Sharpe ... , cheerleading) - Logarhythms (a cappella, all-male) - Ridonkulous (dance, hip ... those that don't know, "a cappella" is basically making music with only

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young ... a college admissions officer. Occasionally, this young man had a hard ... life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... ordered. Three hours later, I tripped over my own shoes and fell up a flight ... -inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  hundreds of companies come and court hundreds of students. It's a time when ... their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a ... actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the summer after their freshman year. This program is a Professional Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008