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• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said ... - they've been gone a week), and my stepdad keeps the mailbox key on his ... neurotic college applicant waiting for a decision. (Come on, who can blame

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to ... have the rare ability to set even water on fire. Thankfully, some of the people on my floor are much better cooks than I am, and every now and then

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  are posted on the MIT events calendar), and they usually are are very ... , being founding director of the Broad (more on that later), and "world ... says lunch on Oct 19th just opened up, and we immediately agree to it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  online math community and learning site on the web, bringing together ... perfect was the school shooting that happened the same day on the outskirts ... IEEE. And informally, creating something new and cool on your own is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  was written by my professor), wrote a short paper on emerging diseases ... worries; at the beginning of summer, MIT will send you a booklet on all the ... then rank your choices based on that and what you've seen of them, at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  interviews and information sessions set up on campus. But undergrads don't have ... been there twice before, just because I'm never on the 5th floor of the ... '07 to give a presentation on all the opportunities that a MISTI

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they ... about my family...), but on top of an MIT courseload, I'm not sure how ... 've probably heard in every other commercial on television if you don't know it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  get some things accomplished. (I worked on some projects for Amtrak ... here and there -- the Midwest, the South, and elsewhere on some long ... should report on some of the festivities here at East Campus. The dorm put

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , though it may vary slightly depending on your dorm. This list is based on ... connect to my laptop, which is much easier on my eyes. However, running programs like Matlab and Solidworks is absolutely painful on a laptop, so I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of ... cow I like this Red Sox cow because of the World Series ring on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  horrified look on my face in 2004 when I realized that there were no hot dogs on the 4th of July. The look of horror prompted Adam's mom to ask me ... fireworks. Usually we sit up on a hill in the middle of an 18th

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  , and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the ... entering my junior year at M.I.T., I saw a notice on the student bulletin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  to put bikes in it," Cote recalled. Two weeks after arriving on campus ... sports -- particularly the sport they are working on -- tend to be far more ... ," he said. The company has since signed him on for an ongoing internship

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on ... , with MIT and the class year each appearing on a separate shank. Thus the ... -piece design, with the MIT seal and the class year each appearing on a separate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  ! Based on a comment I got yesterday, there are still people working... and I don't want to spoil the fun. By the by, I found out the average on ... . On thing that's strange about taking this class is being in a class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which ... when people are trying to pick colleges, and I want to expand on that a ... certain number of terms and expected to find housing on their own? Are there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  with what's going on in the UA. And I'm in the Assassins' Guild's ten ... competition. I am on an all-5th East team, "All Circuits Groovy">. I came up with that name after Brian '08, one of my teammates, said that on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... internet wasn't my inability to write amusing new blog entries or chat on AIM

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  finishing touches on my last HASS (read: Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) paper. This 13-page masterpiece (cough) for 21A.260, on cross ... eyepieces when sitting down. Hee. So in my last entry on Friday, I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  ... Thursday 12/1: The day I'd set aside to catch up on email, blogging, work ... another year on our quest to make the world better. (Lunch: Mass Ave food ... , the folder goes back on the pile. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Playing over

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005