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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... do they really help?" Actually, some tests at MIT go beyond index

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... ), CSC (Chinese Students Club), and ATS (Association of Taiwanese Students). There were tons of activities at this event, and unfortunately I got

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of research: 1. News: Summaries of breakthroughs at MIT and beyond. -Some MIT ... editing, email me at [email protected] or [email protected]. In any case, pick

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... Budget guy, he remarked "the car you reserved isn't ready at the moment ... car for hours at a time on busy city streets, where dings and scratches

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  booths (as they would at a normal college fair) and then GC's come around to network and ask questions. There are keynote speakers at the ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  through the NY Times, which MIT generously provides at no cost, I came across a front page article titled, "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set ... working or only work part-time once they have children, or at least until

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  . 18th, Mira Loma, Sacramento session." Aha, oops. You can RSVP at http ... ). You can review the list of meetings at http://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally ... acquainted with transportation research and study at MIT, and with the ... is the standard introductory physics course offered to freshmen at MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... madly in love with me. Or something like that. At the moment, I'm pretty ... impression that a lot of smart people (and, by extension, a lot of people at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  eaten ice cream at least 5 days of every week. I have an addiction ... during the day for the runaround. I met my friends at 7 pm at Anna ... eat some cake. (Edit: At 10:09 PM on Wednesday the 17th, I ate cake

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... Titans, and countless other things you haven't seen. At the risk of ... game Friday night. Better yet, Waites (UGA) '08 offered to pick me up at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  Boston/MIT-area parties. At Newtonville Books in Newton (a Green Line trip ... . Beginning at 9pm until the "magic" hour, the store will host a "a night of ... package, guests will, "upon arrival, reach into the Sorting Hat at the hotel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  campus tours twice daily, at 10am and 2pm, every weekday (except July 4th ... Court at the Stratton Student Center. No reservations are necessary. The ... . At the conclusion of the tour, student tour guides lead a tour of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The summer begins…

  

  at home with friends and family before heading to MIT. I'll be leaving

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Time Traveling and Teleporting

  

  the next best thing is the webcast, live today at 2pm Eastern Daylight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  at the wedding: software engineer/Kenjitsu instructor/author, Medical ... , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a ... as a local college fair last evening. At the college fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... most likely, you are absolutely qualified to be here. Can I look at your ... previous posts, I was heartbroken at some of the people we couldn't take. All

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  outside world as they are at MIT. I learned the charming way to shake hands. I learned the charming way to waltz. At night, I went to the ... . Killian Court Kresge Auditorium From 77 Mass Ave, looking at 84 Mass

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  been answered at the end of it.)

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  . At the Admissions holiday luncheon, we had a traditional New England ... parentheses). I brought a nice mug I bought at the cool Korean market just north of campus, and ended up with some great wine glasses at the end. Nice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004