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• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  schools (with some variation due to personal preference), and all the same ... accepted to the MIT biology grad program. Just today, I was talking with a ... possible to come with an almost clean mind about a subject (not much prior

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  On Friday, I attended a Undergraduate Economics Association(UEA)-sponsored lunch with Professor Bengt Holmstrom, the head of the MIT Economics Department. Not too shabby. Professor Holmstrom spoke about different routes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  original experimental study (i.e., not only library or Google research) with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  driven performer (with washboard abs, winsome looks and a Gene Kelly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  , or I won't go on the June degree list!) And so, in my last IAP, with ... ), watching movies in the lounge with my friends... maybe I'll even do some of ... , I'm happy with the choices I've made. Plus, I have a boyfriend who is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  about class rank (her school is considering doing away with it), and I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  traveling in circles. :-) Now that I'm more familiar with the tunnels, the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  your genes." Sitting in Lobby 10 with Ruth '07, contemplating buying an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  So how does a boy from Texas survive the oftentimes harsh winters of Massachusetts? With flip flops of course! Try again. While I must say that flip flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  adequately. They filed all of them in one big blue folder, with no indication ... sentence structure--notice how pretty much every single sentence begins with ... Center, I guess. That's what I do when I have a problem with an essay. Or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  goal now is to graduate with a month's worth of MIT t-shirts, and I think

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  competition, so they went all-out, white-knuckle, Tom-Cruise insane with baking ... -apple chicken salad -apple pecan cheesecake -Jewish apple cake with apples ... . This year, we came up with this: Not to be confused. This actually did

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  decided to go with the good old standby: duct tape. Of course, once I ... tape purse. Most people dealt with lack of pockets by simply leaving ... real meal, but it can be kind of hard with a cramped schedule. As I see

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  little mixer with our awesome rush helpers who helped us throughout rush

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  Playfair, we all headed over to the Student Center for a party with more free

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  ), Annie HallFavorite food: A corned beef sandwich from Katz's deli, with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  revolutionize technology, we must start with the fundamentals and build our way up

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  couldn't get a photo with SpongeBob; I think he is an ageist. Yes, these

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  't get into MIT with a 1430/2150, especially if your math score is sub-700 ... with my EC. I didn't really worry about it. I was going to OSU on a full ... scholarship with a stipend! Woo! My high school offered 8 AP classes, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  movies: Star Wars, classic movies like Gone with the Wind or Breakfast at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005