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• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to ... away from MIT by road. My family has limited funds and no car, so I was ... juniors. So I coughed up some cash and shuttled between nine different

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  who have already packed. They get to do this: I am not one of those ... applying to MIT or admitted students who are still unsure/scared, I may be ... year was awesome and I loved it. You will too. Don't worry. Feel better

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  [by Patrick '09] I am another Biochemist coming from MIT to Cambridge. I am not nearly as advanced as Kathy, so I have no lab work at all. Instead, I take a lecture course, hashing out the basics. Differences

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  During first semester I published a nice little entry about my ... How else would I know about all the awesome hacking that happens at MIT? Uncle John's Bathroom Reader This is where I get all of my random

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let ... excitement when I saw a poster advertising her upcoming MIT visit, which was sponsored by the MIT Literary Society. I literally jhumped for joy (ouch, yea

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in Illinois, I wouldn't have *matriculated. Though the MIT campus within itself ... outside MIT. The "M," if you will. After graduating, I kind of felt like

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  (I have a lot more unfinished posts on their way - as well as answers ... here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first ... - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that Laura blogged this almost two years ago! Where have I been?] The I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on ... express that something is rare or unlikely to happen. But I work at MIT, you see - which means that on a daily basis I'm not surrounded by most

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  One week down! One of you asked about what I'm doing down here -- I ... train routes and service. I'm working with some great people, and you know ... 're doing. So far, I've been gaining a wide overview of how BNSF runs their

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  I said I'd do it, no? Many of these websites won't have information ... . YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... living in a dorm on campus. I was in this program for two summers (I took

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  When I grow up, I want to be Suzan-Lori Parks. Only, you know, not ... favorite author; I even met her a few years ago at a discussion/book signing ... are held in 10-250 - I have both my 5.112 and my 18.02 classes in there

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , my interviewer was pretty surprised at the range of colleges that I was ... ... In hindsight, my decision-making process was flawed, though I know I ended up right where I belonged. I'll never forget peopleТƒфs surprise

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

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Nick asked: "I was wondering how you got your job at the NIH National ... complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my research at the NIH. So, I dug around the NIH website (http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... your lingering concerns? Etc. Anonymous asked, "How do I go about requesting an extension for May 1? I have not received my financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  There are two or three backlogged entries that I want/need to write. Unfortunately, with term starting up again, I've been preoccupied with classes. I'm doing a bad job at this regular updating thing. I promise that within the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  Since I just finished a 5.60 problem set, my brain is approximately the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... idea was that??) (Note: to look up the link for 5.60, I had to go to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... student would: we improvied. By which I mean we measured a shelf, rounded it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I don't know why that deserved an exclamation point. Probably because I ... holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  Today marks the tenth day of my ill-conceived diet, and all I want ... strictly true. Today should be day 11 of my diet, but on day 2 I feasted on ... glorious pre-turning-20 days, I never worried about my weight, except if it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005