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  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... to maybe 20-25% of the students in each year. But it's big enough that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could ... .k.a. "Slugfest") hall in the East Campus dorm. According to the Slugfest wiki

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  This will be short, because I'm about to start another 2.671 (Mechanical Engineering Institute Lab Class) experiment, but I had to share with ... Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit ... over, you've gotten more work than you know what to do with, and a ... day last week. This is non-trivial because I like to, and usually do

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  I have this wonderful thing called free time, I'm ready to start blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... order, which often happens on surveys we're asked to fill out. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  will be sleepless nights. There will be weeks you have to choose which work to do because you have too much and can't do it all. And there will be weeks where you feel like you're not good enough. Just remember to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So 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 / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should know that we will be looking to hire almost exclusively incoming freshmen to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  reacting, we must recognize and learn from two elements that may seem to be ... don't expect our applicants to be perfect, we do require them to be truthful. And we must hold ourselves to that standard. I want to reassure

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  email to Ben Jones: ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:03:56 -0400 ... though, to meet me, that is. You know where I live. Here a special shoutout to my homegirl Jessica. She was my prefrosh hostee for an overnight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alive and In London Updates from the Road

  

  Currently writing to you from the London Apple Store. Spring Break has been a blast so far. Once I find free wireless, I'll upload the real entries.

  • by Bryan
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  to Medical! One drawback to the program, however, is that you don't really get to know other MedLinks very well. After training, you see them ... students can choose to go to any available MedLink for help. When Med

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  was worried I hadn't made enough friends, wouldn't have time to travel to all the places I wanted to see, wasn't taking advantage of being abroad, needed to do more schoolwork, etc. Good thing I was wrong

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  heartbreaking stories. I had originally planned to publish one to three pieces ... , Costa Rica I became a Food Channel fan since I decided to apply to MIT. No kidding, but going to college away from home requires more skills than just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems ... originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last ... . (Now if only I thought that way.) Back to studying. Followed by: Various

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to ... door, Bryan was like "Laura! OMG we have to take a picture now that there ... someone else take the shot. Then he sent it to me and I spent way, way too

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good ... day tubes made it to South Florida, Neha '10 (that's Mr. Neha to you and ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  While You Wait… Like robotics? Like the Rubik's Cube?

  

  Like robotics? Like the Rubik's Cube? Check out this video that someone sent me. Discuss. (Sorry for the short post! Back to selection...)

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  department and opportunities available to its students. :) Well, you may have ... period than if you were to pursue them separately or elsewhere. But it ... entrance to the program the following year (as a senior). So as a senior, you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , buckets upon buckets of pieces of your applications to be opened, sorted ... , for the pieces that come via snail mail, we have to open the envelopes ... has to be entered into the database and tracking system. Next, things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006