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• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  sheets. The most review sheets I ever had for a class was 12, front and ... pathway. I'm not sure what that thing is, exactly, but I sure learned a lot ... had like a googol pies and a cupcake tree and pure Breyer's ice cream

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  , but my milk was in a fridge on Conner 4 (along with my eggs, apple juice ... went so far as to have breakfast there Saturday morning. It's a long story. A really long story. So since C3 is halfway between C2 and C4, so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always ... friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  previous entry that a little over a week ago on 5th East we had one of our ... reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... . She was also this year's virgin. In this picture, she is wearing a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  , particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... . This figure doesn't include recitations -- a recitation is a discussion

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off ... may be a liberal from the OC, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like to ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  calling with questions. In an effort to answer these questions, here is a ... the ACT? A. We honestly have no preference. If you submit both, we ... SAT writing section be considered? A. The SAT writing section is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  Last night the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club sponsored a demonstration by ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... how seamlessly I incorporate these links? I am a blogging genius. Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... States, and is considered among the best. The undergraduate program is a 4 year program resulting in a Bachelor of Science (BS) or a Bachelor of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  who receive a "big envelope" in the mail, it's not because we ... . Tomorrow, I'll answer a final round of questions before Friday's expected mailing. And of course a full update on Friday about the progress of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took Thursday off (it was a holiday for MIT people). But Weds, Fri, Sat, and now ... - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  Sciences, a former admissions officer and current employee of OpenCourseWare) kept a minute-by-minute log of the excitement in Boston from her ... another advantage of living in this great city. And what would a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles ... come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film ... was done, I decided I'd drive through Tacoma and get a sense of the town ... power after popping into a random cafe with wireless, I discovered that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  December, when EA decisions were first released. As a result, some of these ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in ... implements pass/no record for this first semester for a reason and that's so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  (it takes a long time to compile these, even with the brief answers ... ! ------------------------------------- Rafael wrote, "wow, thats a bunch of applications! Btw, how many people are ... . ------------------------------------- Manisha wrote, "Does MIT require a Mid Year School Report from International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  ... which just goes to show what a great job the acoustics engineers ... secrets those mysterious 90%-windowless cubes would hold. (Perhaps a prison for music students who played one too many wrong notes during a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  't put a finger on why. Everything is ever so slightly more tiresome: each ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a ... 1958, a couple members of the MIT fraternity Lambda Alpha Chi were making ... trainer remarked how miserable it was walking across the nearly half-a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and ... were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023