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  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  Let me tell you, flying home during the summer is much less painful than flying home during the winter. This is actually the first time I've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... which will not be nearly as cool when blogged about after the fact. (By the way, I probably have a dozen blog entries that I've planned and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I've got ... are said/done at MIT in the dorms after midnight. Both are 100% true stories. Shock Monkey I woke up the other morning and, as I do every

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  , especially for my friends living in the fraternities (most MIT fraternities and ... these epic pictures of the riots fresh from Corey '10's camera, outside of ... had our own Burton-Conner-wide celebration last Sunday when the Red Sox

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... blog didn't give off quite the same sarcastic vibe that I usually exude ... least, that’s what I’ve always thought. Due to what the Florida Department

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  application will once again be considered by the committee during regular action. You are at no advantage or disadvantage versus the regular action applications. We will admit the best applications we can during regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming manages credit policies for incoming freshmen, and the ... when you were in kindergarten, and the first day of class your mother

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

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... for worse. Tonight I am highlighting the differences between me as a 17 ... scores 2001: Pretty good, but nothing really outstanding in the applicant

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  ROY HESS The Brownsville Herald May 25, 2006 -- The opportunity that lies ahead for St. Joseph Academy senior Daniel Guillen is one of the ... -year starter on the Bloodhound football team, has consistently ranked No. 3 in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... ). We were on an inbound Red Line train, and the conductor kept adamantly ... now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  of nowhere Bryan: a piano fell out of the sky Diana: HAHA Bryan ... ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like ... moved the street Diana: and when we tried hurling the piano to the new

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  I'm sure that that's true. However, the disparity between those ... valid question. I fully understand the arguement that the female applicant ... thing to note might be the trend in female applicants over the years

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  I participated in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP) this past week. Though the acronym sounds awfully like UROP, the ... MIT students have the technical background and overall smarts required

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  application will once again be considered by the committee during regular action. You are at no advantage or disadvantage versus the regular action applications. We will admit the best applications we can during regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  's actually the second question on everybody's mind. The first one is "what are ... now. The real reason I'm writing about this is because it's on my mind ... 's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  Viji wrote, "Hello, How do I RSVP for the info session? Your links takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... ). You can review the list of meetings at http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  Huckabees Ben: Hero Matt: The Hebrew Hammer Mike: Wet Hot American Summer Sam: "Strangers With Candy", Season 1 Shana: A Mighty Wind Allison's Dad: The Sound of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  Changing World Technologies, you take a turkey, cut off all the meat and stuff that non-vegetarians might eat, then take the carcass, throw it into ... . To summarize, But, oops, Chester, looks like when you heat the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  biology."]GIRs[/annotation] out of the way, so this was the first computer ... returning to my roots. Instead of the traditional bi/triweekly lecture + (bi ... weekly readings and labs. The labs are typically my biggest assignment on

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  complete the first step. Take driver's ed, that's fine -- it's a rite of ... curated playlists, and realize on the highway that there's a little piece of paper stuck to the windshield. Is that a ticket??? Time to panic. Oh my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024