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  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... would just be too long but I’ll try to make a start here. There isn’t any ... . Instead it’s about the complete picture of who you are as a student, as an

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  (Written while on a Boeing 737 somewhere between Seattle, WA and ... Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  case you aren't convinced of the collider's sinister intent, take a look ... , what makes this so special? why is it the end of the world? Well in a ... rationalize gravity on the quantum level, and thus finish the standard model a.k.a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  , Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Virginia. For a complete list of sessions, click ... MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  On a recent blog entry, I got a question from a student I thought was interesting:   hey matt i've got a question. right now i've got a nose ... ring i could always take out but my hair?   That's a good question

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  landscaped NW buildings that no one really ever visits on a whim. Living in EC ... I'm living at Bexley for the summer and working just a short distance ... location was a blessing. Yesterday, it was so hot and today, it is so cold

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  I know, I know, I haven't written in forever and a week. Um, yeah ... a novel and I decided a list would be the best way. I keep lists of ... you say it is, because I am a sane person."So yeah. A list it is. 1. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  today, and possibly all of next week (Playsentations soon? Do we have a ... Blind, Leeroy Jenkins, sunshiny weather, MTV promoting a concert, cell ... saw a huge chalk message (not unlike the hundreds of chalk messages

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory. The answer: a loud and resounding thud. EPIC FAIL!!!! But I'm being

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... Commander Colonel William R. Kunzweiler. We also witnessed a fantastic ... hosted a luncheon for the cadets where we heard an incredible war story

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  wished that somehow all of those games were combined into one? A little less than a week ago everybody on campus was sent an e-mail like this: Dear Undergraduates, Have you ever wanted to make a difference? Have you

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really ... also play a tremendous role in creating, encouraging, and preserving the ... a college professor is, I think, something along the lines of an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 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 ... and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  feud with Stephen Colbert (resolved in a battle royale), a German disco light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In ... , this is a physics problem. And when there's an important physics problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture ... emotional bias with a scientific eye, and to daily question and reaffirm our ... with him (and they have a perfect right to do so) but rather than

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  thought we’d go into a part of MIT that is seldom seen by public eyes. You ... is even a little intimidating for me, and I’ve been a student here for a whole 76 days (but who’s counting?). Today we are venturing into

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart cannot be grown by simply placing stem cells in a Petri dish. However, Ali ... ;bottom-up” approach. Rather than creating a 3-D gel scaffold and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  comments, please leave more of your thoughts from the Parties, or drop me a ... been my first choice for most of high school, but for a brief period of ... top choice, and a couple of days after receiving my acceptance to MIT, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  stay in a hotel with them so that they aren't alone? Or do we need to stay with a host?" And Connie wrote, "This might have been answered somewhere else, but I've heard a lot of different things about parents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  a giant postal tube, but it's still an exciting thing. ARE you excited? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a ... a month. I was barely reading the blogs, just trying to get two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006