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  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  A press release yesterday from MIT announced costs & financial aid for the 2007-2008 school year. Here are some details: MIT has set ... needs the kind of leaders and thinkers who graduate from MIT. By finding

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  So this weekend my 61 of my fraternity brothers and I drove several miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester. They often say that "getting there is half the fun" and I would tend to

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! My friend Jennifer (MIT '01) is an artist/baker extraordinaire. This week I got her annual Thanksgiving comic in my inbox: Dear ... project of the MIT-alumni company Squid Labs), where there's a DIY

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  national honors do. Why? Look at MIT's motto, Mens et Manus -- Mind and Hand. These hands-on projects tie in directly with MIT's core principles. And look around MIT for lots of examples of cool projects, like: Disco

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

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  asked: How much time does a sport at MIT really take up? I'm sure you ... applying to MIT or what? Just curious. The hours between 5 and 7 are reserved ... CPW. Trust me, athletics won't make or break your acceptance to MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  opportunity to do real research through UROP, MIT also has a number of exciting ... : MIT Motorsports / Formula SAE: As the team says, if you are an MIT ... may want to join the MIT Formula SAE team (check out their promo video

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  I’m done with the MCAT! Well, at least for now (we’ll see once I get the score report in two months.) In other news, I got this email from the…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  grown since college, colleges are changing and growing." So, current MIT ... better suited your personality? To be honest, during my interview for MIT ... open. I went on very few tours, though I did tour MIT, and I think I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals! Finals are here!

  

  I'm currently studying for what might turn out to be my last ever final exams at MIT. Monday: 2.006 - Thermal Fluids Engineering II Update ... 'd like to see what an MIT final exam is like, let me know, and I can post a

  • by Bryan
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Thursday

  

  Sorry, things have been hectic lately, plus my knees really hurt. Tomorrow: 10:00-4:00 — Earth Day 10:30-12:00 — 14.64: Labor Economics class 12:00-1:00 — economic lunch with Janet ’06 4:00-5:00…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk about the game: When: 5:30 pm this Friday (4/21) Where: Dining room of

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  indicates the MIT Weather Machine is gearing up for Campus Preview Weekend

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  Two groups are hosting pi celebrations: This **Tuesday, 3/14, at 6pm in room 2-102** the UMA (undergraduate math association) will be holding the following festivities in honor of pi day:…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  we had the opportunity to open our house to the MIT community. The ... students in attendance! Background: There are five sororities at MIT, four ... house used to be a doctor's office and home, until MIT scooped it up a few

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix Some quick updates.

  

  with financial aid tracking built into MyMIT. In the meantime, please feel free to contact my office by email at finaid(at)mit(dot)edu or by

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  to be up super early to go to drill sessions for MIT-EMS. I knew it was ... hack: This poster is a spoof on The Evolving MIT Campus, the name given ... of MIT." The spoof poster claims that the latest phase of the project

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

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  interests and sophomore Jugal Shah is living proof of MIT's success. Jugal is ... subsequently irradiated with a neutron beam at the MIT Nuclear Reactor. Next, the ... , since it still has a few points which could use improvement. The MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do ... it is possible to get an adequate amount of sleep at MIT, as long as ... their best work. You're welcome to do that too. Lots of people at MIT are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin and I drop…

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  On Saturday, it snowed!! On Sunday, the sun was shining. Go figure. And now, onto the non-meteorological information (say it, don’t spray it?). Early this morning, some friends and I…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005