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• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  becomes, when are you involved with too many activities? At what point do ... Club doesn’t impress MIT at all. They want to see commitment, dedication ... year…) This brings me back to the old adage: At MIT, you have to pick

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  Lobby 7. The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight announced the ... Sin Meters. Finally, at each stage, the teams received a certificate of ... Mystery Hunt puzzles are quite humbling, hence "Lego My Ego." So, at noon in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  France, some stay at home ... and some go to lab. After a brief search on ... graduate student community at MIT, there exist few opportunities for ... science policy awareness within the MIT community at all levels. Web: http

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and ... important. At many schools, students only care about policy as relates to the present. If it doesn't affect them while they're at the school, they don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  's such a nice day. How can I look at a computer screen right now?" And I ... the band. These did prove useful for our director at the Anything But ... 's rugby game. Our eventual goal is to play at least once at every sporting

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

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... discourage people from entering your house. Third degree squalor: At this ... this knowledge I went back and looked at my yet-to-be-unpacked room

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  fantastic folks at the Davidson Institute and the new Davidson Academy. The ... York Yankees. Henry studied Ocean Engineering at MIT and became a ... . Why is it funny that someone could be smart and sexy at the same time? I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  is the only class in which I'm not starting at the very bottom, since I ... Science - neither of which are accepted for credit at MIT. And I'm fairly ... don't have AP classes or exams offered at your schools, but have taken

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their ... 's Hospital of Philadelphia pediatrician. It takes a keen look at the stressors ... at Amazon. Some of your responses: Valentina (Bogota, Columbia): How

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  quite sure why I commented. MIT keeps sending me junkmail so I looked at their site. Do you have any idea what I'm supposed to look at, exactly? It ... answer your questions. At different stages of the process, you will be

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  . However, rather than settle for a second choice, the valedictorian at ... & Mathematics Institute at CAHSEE and the Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science program at MIT. Flores' interest in science and math was piqued when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the ... at the bottom. And suddenly I wondered, why is it white? So I sat back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  and culture. You can read more about our process and the "match" at this entry or on this page at My ... . And when we admit a student, we admit that student to all of MIT, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  get all sorts of things at home before they come, but there are plenty ... them at the COOP -- everything there is grossly overpriced. :-( Do you have a printer at home? While you won't *need* one here, and can

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  Manolo Blahniks at graduation, but I'm really glad we didn't hold each ... part of his address: Your training at MIT equips each of you ... personal and intellectual achievements during your time at MIT, will soon

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

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  data so positively. I guess I got better at presenting my data at the ... have to bring all your stuff at once, I'd advise packing necessary things ... don't think it would be too late at all -- the summer before sophomore

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn.com/education, but it ... financial aid at Connecticut College. We at MIT are among those college ... sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you can send a letter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  any inside info about the choruses and performance classes at MIT? The ... at rehearsal quite as much as I was during high school, I also didn ... extracurricular at MIT is really a bigger commitment than it was in high school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... know of at MIT, at least for undergrads (I'm not sure if there's any on ... weird vocabulary than you can shake a stick at. Most of the lectures deal

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  at MIT. While I'm at it, parents, you should take a bow as well. You ... Thursday night - one for parents and one for students. I was at the parent ... stage at the Battle of the Bands. My colleague and fellow blogger Ben

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006