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• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in ... about the competition I was facing and the level of excellence that would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome 2014s!! :) See you in the fall!

  

  finally made the decision on matriculation! For all of those that replied in the affirmative, congratulations! You're in for one heck of a ride. ^______^V but don't worry, you'll be in with some of the best company you will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an ... , was a meeting held in the home of an alumni volunteer named George Keller '48. He lived in the Bay Area, was chairman of Chevron Oil at the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  is coming up in just over a week, I've spent the past few days cycling ... 've forgotten so much of what I learned in the EMT class I took over IAP, and I haven't had a whole lot of experience on shift. The latter, though, might

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  taking the monster of a test known as the Medical College Admissions Test, or the exam that tests your ability to choose correct responses to 144 multiple choice questions in the realms of biology, chemistry, organic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  Hello everybody! I'm still alive, I promise, just not at the computer. I will, however, be at the computer tonight from 8:00PM EST to 10:00PM ... manning the booths and answering questions that prefrosh have. Think of it

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card, and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your ... even ended up at that little brick school down the road despite posing

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done ... probably for the better because Jess won $1,000 and probably would have bumped me out of the running. This year, however, I applied and after about

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain ... Ability I'm so mature, I know. Anyway, I've got to run, Alicia, the director of MIT-Spain is in Madrid, and all of the interns are meeting for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I ... on to discover the even greater joys life has to offer. Earlier this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends Tonight, It Ends Tonight On this evening / I give the final blow...

  

  .111 pset. One all-nighter. Wish me luck. ;) The semester is really coming to ... (after I'm done with the exam and the two psets I have to do after the exam ... - cuz you can pass out of stuff or not take the FEE (woot!) if you do well

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  My dorm, Burton-Conner, has a great view of the both domes from just outside the front entrance. This was highly convenient this morning because ... strange. What are those pokey things on the small dome? I hastened my way

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  just yelling across the room. Since we can't really get away with that, we have an Operator (inspired by the Matrix). It's the Operator's job ... heads against the wall so hard their brains are going to fall out. In

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely, Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen ... towards the end. I'm not sure if you could sense it from where you were, but

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of the talk was, "Rights and Responsibilities: The University Connection". Among the key issues discussed was the concept of neutrality- what it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  use for the photography class I'll get to take next term because I'm not a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first ... the medical field ever have.) -I decided to work towards the second

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in ... teacher is on the ball and sends in your recommendation in September, we'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of sisterhood and the chanting and singing and oh god, the chanting and singing, I was convinced that joining a sorority was not the way to go. Anyway, my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  Times are a changin’ around the Institvte. This year, sorority recruitment has been moved from the last weekend of IAP to the beginning of the school year. This is a major change because most of the MIT sorority women

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  the Meet the Bloggers party, we write stuff, put it on the Internet, and you guys actually read it. What's up with that?! -fed you. Even in the ... 's entire stock of organic portobello mushrooms. Think of the vegetarians

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007