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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  are). How did I wind up at MIT, you ask? One fateful Saturday morning while attending a community service event at my high school, I broke into ... Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  at home for just a little while and to immerse themselves in pure camp ... raising at least $400. In general, I'm not that great at fundraising because ... delightful manner), and practice skills we'll need at camp. I admire each and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  Applicants who have been watching the online tracking system at My ... to happen: The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15 ... envelope may not go into the tracking system at the same time). In parallel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  , James Lipton, and Bernard Shaw, I present to you my attempt at journalism ... major who has been a campus leader at MIT for the past 4 years. In ... a chance to hear what she had to say about her experiences at MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  #1 and #3 together, we've put at least 10 hours into #2 so far just to ... 'm taking data for my thesis at this very moment. After tomorrow I'm handing ... with my advisor at the beginning of term, he threw down a dusty volume of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  Assistant Director for Minority Recruitment at MIT…..which is in Kendall ... master’s at UMD and now I’m a Terrapin If anything, I can say that this ... and my tie was straight Looked at my office, I was finally there To sit

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center. The Student ... Professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton above, "Making Applesauce At MIT." Others are more abstract works, like the Francesco Clemente at right. Unfortunately

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  students? [answer at the end of the entry] Beginning Sunday until the end of ... here. You might be wondering, what happens at these meetings? What ... Counselors (MIT alumni interviewers, also known as ECs) will greet attendees at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . I am not nearly as advanced as Kathy, so I have no lab work at all ... , and you will acquire literacy to write your own. At MIT, students are ... seems we can only focus on one at a time. *** "So, which has better

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  ) spent this evening at MIT. Though she was born in London and raised in ... , bad one.) The timing of the talk wasn’t great; it started at 7 pm ... MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  at 0530. I might have woken my roommates, but it was early enough that ... and accomplish my goals, both in my navy life and my life at school. I ... activity can make me more productive. The Navy ROTC program at MIT also

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  ¡Buenos días! from Spain! While these festivities are going on at ... on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II ... every day (from 10 AM to 1 PM) and at least one test every day of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  a desk job at the BNSF Railway's national operations center, working ... , by automobile - but at least it's not too long) and into my work ... up via Bluetooth to my GPS. I had to get out of bed and look at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  Chamberlain claimed to have slept with almost 20,000 women. Since he was 56 at ... Perform it at your own senior recital! But tell me first so that I can ... impossible, or at least needlessly complicated. I got a lot of praise from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  favorite author; I even met her a few years ago at a discussion/book signing ... . Anyway, she gave a talk on Thursday night here at MIT in 10-250, which is ... events that all happen to be occuring at the same time, usually not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Intercollegiate Service Organization (BISCO) and we have monthly activities at the ... the way there, we stopped at the North End playground to do some physics ... Constitution. We had an amazing lunch at an Italian restaurant in the North End

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard ... fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at ... to plan. Marybeth Kravets, the college counselor at Deerfield High

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  go until he graduates, and then he hopes to stay at MIT to get his ... month of August off... sort of. I am not so good at the "do nothing" thing ... , we're also planning to go to Water Country at least once with our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006