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Blog / About Decisions
Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…
Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post-decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... set up before we release decisions at noon. If you're looking for a way -
Blog / Academics & Research
Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...
are at the beginning of Easter term so there’s panic over the last ... ;m sitting at home while writing this. Most of the other people on the -
Blog / MIT Life
Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...
exam study days. From my desk at Hayden Library, I watched the snow fall ... is at an absolute standstill. We had an event tonight for the American -
Blog / MIT Life
The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…
story about some people whom he’d met at Free Tibet rallies who ... – oftentimes the victims of rape or incest at the hands of family ... Emerge the old-fashioned way: one trip to Sri Lanka at a time, one lecture -
Blog / MIT Life
Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.
my limit comes at babies. I love kids, I really do. Really really ... -goo-eyed at infants with their little-itty-bitty fingers and toes and their tiny ... know. Keri dropped her double major; my hardcore physics friend at -
Blog / Academics & Research
Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.
After reading Chris' blog entry about Thanksgiving at MIT, I thought I'd write about celebrating an American holiday in Britain. Although ... at the International office! -
Blog / Academics & Research
Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.
And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the ... ? I should also warn people at the beginning that this is a long post. I ... lights division. My friend Chris '09 and I rented a Zipcar for a day at -
Blog / Events
101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.
At orientation, we received a list of "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been ... at Legal Sea Foods. I don't remember this particular occasion, but this -
Blog / Life after MIT
Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.
one, bro, and I caught a f*cking bad one.' "At long last, thanks to his ... romantic hearts, all at the same time. It's an unwinnable three-front war ... esteemed professor is going on tour and will be reading at the Brattle -
Blog / Academics & Research
Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…
offerings at MIT. Among her many experiences, Ana worked in the Sinkey Lab ... 5 chiral centers and takes about 2 weeks to produce at only about a 50 -
Blog / MIT Life
A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.
along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across ... order. Back at East Campus, Cameron Lewis '07, an electrical -
Blog / Academics & Research
More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…
Confusing screens at Chatelet station, Paris The term's almost over ... internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great ... directly sponsored by RATP, Paris' public transit authority, and we met at -
Blog / Events
Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)
We held it at the Boston Sheraton In this picture, the Sheraton is ... nice feeling at the tables, no? (Especially when they illuminate butter -
Blog / Admissions
That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.
the Big Screw, 3pm, Friday A quick look in at the Ted Kennedy lecture ... problems, call us at the CPW Hotline: 617-258-6085. You may want to program -
Blog / About Decisions
Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…
applications and studying for APs/SATs, have finally paid off. At Campus Preview Weekend (CPW), you will have the opportunity to experience what life at MIT ... them for most of the weekend. (Pictures are at the bottom of the entry -
Blog / Admissions
Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.
are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... Creasy at the Johns Hopkins University (a fantastic school, btw) for the -
Blog / Academics & Research
‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…
at me. I didn't do it. Speaking of EC, this evening when I was walking home from studying at the student center, these had been strung from the -
Blog / How to Human
A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…
mention that now? You may be surprised by how many first year students at ... Hollywood fantasy. NEWSFLASH... NO ONE MAKES IT AT MIT/COLLEGE (OR IN LIFE ... also look at a different example. Mills performed well in high school -
Blog / MIT Life
This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!
then in German III today Frau Bittner was like, "Oh, look at this study ... sounds so awesome!" But Frau Bittner just laughed at us in her stern German