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  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first batch came out underdone, but a friend gave me a different method and the ... can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  international students. Hi! We have one week until the Early Action (EA) deadline, November 1. I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline-time questions. There are many answers already here on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  more beautiful and mind-bending. Even without considering the weird ... shivering despite the toasty warm weather, I woke up from a 20-hour nap and ... saved the day yet again and told my classes to push back a few project

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or lack thereof) and learn more about the sisters in my sorority while

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... ’m running out of socks. I spend an hour picking out socks on the Internet. I buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  As it says in my introduction, I used to sing in the MIT Logarhythms (an all-male a cappella group), and still keep up with the group as a "logalum". Recently, they released their first music video, promoting the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  might've had your mind blown. He's the type of Guido that made a ... Mind, but this is most often the Linguistics Department) while still ... purpose. For my UROP, I'm currently working at the Quantitative Research in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  So while Rachel has been Facebooking, Jenny has been getting into poopy situations, and Anna has been dancing the night away in Cambridge, I ... 's a video. Boom. Sorry in advance for the singing. If any of the other

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... her musical days were over. Courtesy of the HASS-D requirement, she ... , since she's always loved musical theater, began to throw around the idea

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is students who are thinking about joining the class of 2015, and/or those admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point ... dramatically after college, junior year became the "just do it" era. This motto has led to some vaguely unfortunate situations, such as taking the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Odds ‘n Ends There's a video. And a SONG. Your lucky day.

  

  blogger, the one who always makes you go "How'd she get hired?" I'M BACK ... , Spring 2010) for the feature I like to call "Obligatory Doodle": Okay, here's the featured content.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

    Friday January 7th marked the beginning of MIT’s 150th ... Cambridge to see and remember all the great things that have come out of our beloved MIT in the past century and a half. There are a ton of activities

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  , The Bravery, Neon Trees, Bloc Party, The Fratellis, etc…) 3. Kaisers. The German emperors. Actually, their awesomeness is debatable. So nevermind. 4. Kaiser. The card game. (Apparently there’s a Canadian card game

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps the first ever. He was admitted. But he said no. Here's the story, from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: One day, about eight years ago, Kevin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  linked to the following letter: Dear Ms. C: I am truly sorry to inform you that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  while running down to the Senior Haus lobby to pick up the Indian food I ... of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life ... from the show on my way upstairs before I fell flat on my face. Let me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010