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  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  paired with a mentor in the Boston area to do an original scientific ... right!) And if MIT AV forgets to give you a projector to go with the ... dealing with RSI issues and volunteer for other high school summer programs

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... one point during that weekend I'll be talking with my old friends about ... 't what would I do with myself the following year...I'm sure there were

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  ! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments ... into MIT. That's the main statistic you need to be concerned with. Yeah ... continues his multicolored arc, totally unruffled. With AP tests and a college

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  expensive, with good reason: space is limited in the city, and MIT's priority ... or online with a credit card, parking tickets on Memorial Drive are ... still be programming their systems with punchcards, too, because not only

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  career. I am almost done with school, almost ready to go out into the real ... as well, but for now I am enjoying myself in the moment, even with the ... want to intern with next summer. Even though the summer is a long ways

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and ... surprise (forcing us to contact our liaison with Friesens, our publisher, to ... means that the books should be in towards the end of April, with

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  interaction with current students. But so far, none of the blogs match the ... , where they are posted prominently on the admissions homepage, along with ... apple pie topped with bacon and hot caramel sauce, falling down the stairs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you ... -in-law in a wheelchair, having a conversation with an older man down the ... ever since I'd spent 11 hours seated next to an overly large man with a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  actually means by working with these younger students. It's an interesting ... LTI was probably when I caught a real egg with a pair of tongs. I can't catch a ball with two hands, so I felt pretty sweet when I managed to save

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  retreat with SCRUMPTIOUS food. Listen, if MIT Dining could make this kind of ... , I travelled with ESP to Stanford last weekend. (I know this is the MIT ... school in terms of cross-admits with MIT. If you apply to both and get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  be completely free of pets, save fish), along with an accompanying ... school with an unusual roommate: a 3-month-old orange tabby named Amadeus ... up with them my entire life. They're playful and cuddly and they make

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

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  application process will mess with your preconceptions and alter the way you ... prompt, I have to just wait until I randomly come up with the perfect plan or idea and then I run with it. That's why although I filled out almost

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  sometimes plagued with interview questions that some MIT students won't see until their first interview with Goldman-Sachs. As a member of Churchill ... ) recitation with you and a faculty member or graduate student who knows the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , people from mining or factory towns...you'll see all sorts of people with ... with worse preparation start out behind, but there's nothing wrong with ... people who have never seen it before or struggle with it) during your first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  and their friends and it would just propagate along. I ended up with one person who I knew from CPW, one person who went to high school with people I'd gone to elementary school with, and then one semi-random person

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  calculus homework notwithstanding, then crank through it in a night with a ... you go is littered with free food! AP classes also have more exams per ... . (That part's the gravy!) MIT is a hard place - I can say that with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  thing you could do would be to come here, stay with an MIT student, and ... conjunction with AP Computer Science and AP Calculus BC. Other examples: half of ... , I only do that a few times a week). We're social, especially with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  should be no technology issues with my presentation. In my defense I ... daughter Boomer if I thought I could have gotten away with it. Less I digress ... time I was ready. With no dead skunk aroma and a cup of Starbucks Venti

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  standards until you've learned to be satisfied with mediocrity. And so, in ... with my five sharpened pencils, opened the first page, and then I was all, "WHAT-side attack?!" I was rewarded for my feeble efforts with a 59, only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  Burton-Conner with loads of wash. Mitra used to say freshman year that at ... plain awesome with long hair. So, for a year and a half I just didn't get ... , with no other options, I turned to Diane, marching band mom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006