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• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  day spa and salon on Newbury Street. The priciness of Newbury Street ... that a) would look perfect on Adam's and my couch, b) were far too ... Sapolsky. (I pre-order science books on Amazon. I am one cool kid.) I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  questions that I'd ask: How diverse is a campus? What is the climate on campus? What support systems exist on campus for minority students ... on your criteria of what's important in a college. This whole process

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  ." Don't get me started on selection bias, but if you crunch some raw ... the MyMIT section on interviews. To get to this page, which has ... then on the left click "INTERVIEWS")

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  the fact that I've been ODing on labwork this week. I was in lab until 7 PM on Friday night (actually because I almost blew something up... but ... many MIT students) am a little bit on the masochistic side... I work like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  lied and told us it was cancelled on account of rain. Then we had ... . Well, guess who apparently plays football on Sundays right across from ... , but I'll gladly post it here in public. Because on this blog, I have no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  So on the MyMIT Admissions site, the 2005-2006 undergraduate ... ] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3 ... out phrases or clauses just to save on words, but I did it and felt like

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  session on Bain & Company, a consulting firm. A lot of MIT graduates from all different majors have gone on to become associate consultants and ... recognized our Brass Rats and went on to tell us how one day we'd be able to

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  mirror off of somebody's car on the way down. Still, he was determined to ... important. As the scarlet V of lipstick on her forehead symbolizes, Ruth was ... can get up to Boston on a Saturday night. Basically, the company gives

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  before this summer, and I always have problems with cooking them evenly on ... on all sides by the time I put in the last one... and since I ... 've heard!) consider themselves to be on a premedical track. Many of them are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  to work on it. So Kim, who is a good painter, asked me if I wanted help ... back in place the next day. We didn't know that if primer dries on the ... . Although my belief is that one should pick a living group based on whether

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  ), Andrez (an awesome hands-on engineer), Nathan (already saving the world ... not, I hope you'll drop me a line here on the blog to say hi. And if you sent me an email after ISEF, I'm still catching up on those... also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the ... , you add me to your list of friends on Thefacebook ;) Your important ... . Back in the fall of 1996 (we had to wait until we were on campus to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... was David Bauer from New York City, who did a project on quantum dots ... struck me on the day after Einstein's birthday, two weeks after an article

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  , including one on some awesome undergraduate research. A snippet: An MIT ... at MIT and lead author on a paper about the result. "SS 433 provides a ... 's trivia: Which US President is pictured on the $1000 bill? (The answer is in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group ... MIT on a moment's notice and still do an okay job. And people laughed at ... -registration). Basically, all I needed was a signature on a form from the Harvard professor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... committee. At some other schools, some admitting is done on the spot -- when ... on Pi Day. I don't know when we'll mail this year yet, but it will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  students participate in them, you knew that every athlete on campus was just ... , Baker House, like most of the dorms and halls on campus, was very involved ... Club of Boston also fields an IM Hockey team. So I have participated on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  totally list that as a talent on your application). Number theory is fun ... this up to one of my housemates, Josh, who was on the winning 2003 ... for going off on a large Mystery Hunt tangent without talking in depth

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... begin by telling you my thoughts on this new portal. Lots of schools have ... get to explore MIT on behalf of all of you. I'm new around here and so

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  me. The Leaves: One of the most memorable experiences about fall on ... on campus).    Fall Flavors: Walk into any coffee shop or cafe ... year, the fall season is usually the perfect time to put them on as the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025