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  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday, or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  ridiculous stereotypes about MIT and MIT students. I'm a little touchy about things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better ... typical nerds? A. Definitely not. Many of us are very atypical nerds. Q. No

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a ... schools and nights preparing last minute lessons. I'll hopefully write a separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  at South Station on Friday night South Station is a transportation hub ... : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free concert. There was some tie-in with Verizon's release of a newer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to take. 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy. It's a 6-unit P/D/F (your options are: pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  Just a reminder...there are a lot of new UROP opportunities for IAP, here's an example of a cool project: "Sociable Robot Applications -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends spent the last month converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into a boat - the ... up a story like this. You can read about the entire saga here

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to ... hockey jersey, I swell with pride. It's a great design for a uniform (I'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student receives a stack of flyers and documents and charts and posters as soon as ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of residents, mostly frosh, she's a new arrival at Simmons. Unlike those

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the ... them leaves quite a bit to be desired. On a tangential note, I've been taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from ... considered liveblogging it - pictures of a near-empty terminal and all - but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  firehose-survivors was Ana Posada. Ana, a Biology major from Lawrenceville, GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an ... , one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... MIT. His to-do list is a mile long.) Anyway, new portlets. Here are the ... the hope is to have a portlet that will display various streaming video

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  hours in class analyzing those poems, and written 5000 words on a few ... , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two ... was a Doogie Howser fan. I used to want to save lives by performing

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  x 22 is, I'll tell you it's the dimensions of a half-sheet cake; I'm just a girl working in a bakery.) I've lived in California all my life ... . I'm no Anthony '09 and it'll take me a little longer to jot down my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... plays Mirabelle, a shy 26 year-old sales clerk at Saks Fifth Avenue, who ... and lonely apartment. One night at the Laundromat, she meets Jeremy, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  . (INVESTIGATOR PIERCE, a portly, middle-aged man with a unibrow for absolutely no reason, is sitting at a desk, rifling through some papers. His partner, DETECTIVE POLK, is speaking indeterminately into a taupe-colored telephone. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006