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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a ... -out awesome. At any rate, I volunteer whenever I have the time, and that's how I ... of us arrived at the Dave Powers Room in the Constitution Inn in Boston

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  of my life at this place. I LOVE IT. So why would anyone want to come ... reason to say so. If I think about my daily set of activities at MIT, I ... kind. If you believe that the only education you will receive at MIT is

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  , most econ majors (like most other students at MIT, I believe) choose ... D program at MIT, there are students who studied computer science, physics ... increasingly rare to go directly to business school (at least into an MBA program

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  -record. It is meant to level the playing field, so that you will succeed at MIT ... responsibilities. You might get the Freshman 15 (I did…) from eating at all the free ... of activities on campus and realize that while everyone is a nerd at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  teacher who no longer teaches at my school, and, as of today, he had not ... to see senior year grades at all, and if you're applying RA, mid ... , my chemistry teacher wrote my letter without having looked at the MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  , spectators at the Boston Garden reported seeing leprechauns in the rafters ... chairs that plan events like these at huge subsidies. One thing that I ... we were on the subway. At 2 PM in New York. The result was a Lucy and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  some repeated pumping noise somehow, and I was only just at that moment aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time ... . Except at MIT, it's a waterfall of knowledge. As I said last entry, I won

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  a professor at MIT, Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer ... was the obvious choice. At MIT, he felt that the sky was the limit and ... studies at MIT by getting a Masters in Engineering (M. Eng) in Electrical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , particularly at the only college about which I know anything substantial. The ... learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most ... intellectual efforts of any given scientist, lab work fails at least half of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  heading home at the end of August. It's been great getting to know all these ... . Tomorrow all six hundred people at my site have to go to some workshop, so my ... 't have any fun at MIT until I get back next Monday. Just playin'. Enjoy all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... . It's otherwise known as the coolest and most useful project ever, at ... NHGRI and had headed the Human Genome Research project. At the NHGRI

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... entering my junior year at M.I.T., I saw a notice on the student bulletin ... author of the computer book I had read at 15, Edmund Berkeley. I told him

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... maybe I'll just have to walk to LA. I'm sure it will be awesome. At any ... thing I meant to write about a long time ago: At the end of this semester

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  , following which we will drive around the Columbus area and look at Christmas lights (and point and laugh at blowup Christmas lawn ornaments). It's good ... 'd rather just pick up a minor. At the time, I was only interested in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced ... reminder of the dorm-wide pumpkin carving study break this Wednesday at 8 ... -o-lanterns at the Life is good Pumpkin Festival! In addition to jack

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  consent) arrived at 9:00 and made pleasant conversation with me about MIT ... . One semester of chemistry is a general institute requirement at MIT, and ... an explanation of atomic number and its implications at the atomic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  screwed up my back/shoulder/neck area at cheerleading camp tonight, and I kind of can't move my head. This makes sitting at my computer slightly difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... Characters, the bar/restaurant at the Kendall Square Marriot via the Infinite Corridor. Now, one of the things they give you at Orientation Check-In is the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  out our advising assignments. There are three advising options at MIT ... . Anyway, I made a stop at Barnes and Noble yesterday and picked up a new Spanish-English dictionary and now I'm fully ready to take some Spanish at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005