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  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  by Donald Guy’s Mom Almost exactly one year ago, on a Junior ... Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... hole); CSAIL presentations on developing new microprocessors and robots

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 739 applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor ... measures i.e. Hot in Herre on the acoustic guitar), to a tea party, to a ... for YEARS, I swear. A note on that back wall: Gillian and I couldn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  studying, I'm sitting on The Angela Monster's bed with May and Liz '11 and ... . (I spent the earlier part of the evening on Burton Two- sometimes ... count the number of days left on the number of pectoral abdominal (SORRY

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian ... few weeks ago on the ways form logistics affect retirement savings Read

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  You'll get another new entry today as I work on my 20 page paper. But ... alarm on weekends. Oh, dear. So, I awoke with a jerk at 8:30 AM yesterday ... at 10 AM on Saturday morning. Unlike my usual Tuesday and Thursday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  plural, I think, but no one asks me), so here are two pictures I took on my way to class this morning. (Click on the picture to see the glorious ... outside Baker House, one of the dorms on Dorm Row. I don't know why there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter ... -so-secret crush on Pine, the mail client that's used on Athena. I used to only use ... . On Monday, we had to submit the primary themes for our theme

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  that dead guy having Veronica's name written on his hand?! Was Veronica ... 's actually the second question on everybody's mind. The first one is "what are ... now. The real reason I'm writing about this is because it's on my mind

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  The Common Application Q and AStudent Performance on the New SATRecommendations ... Gillis looking on. At left, Shalala's adoring audience. Lloyd Thacker ... discussion on ethical admissions, which included admissions deans from UNC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  catching up on email and various projects I'm behind on since returning from ... do any work on my trip (though I do hope to do a work-related visit to ... took a boat ride on some rural canals and visited the Floating Market

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  so normally I'd just say "hi" and continue on my merry way, but the moment she saw me, Erica '07 (on the right) exclaimed, "Sam! You should ... -mache pinata for Phil '05 on the night before he left for his graduate studies in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  Today - or I guess, now yesterday - was a special day on 5th East. Well, many days are special on 5th East, but today was Clayton '08's 19th ... 's Club" on hall, which included guests dressing up. The only problem was

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

  Yay, weekend!

  

  On Friday evening, I was lounging around being bored. There were other people on 5th East doing the same thing, so we sat under the red ... on 5th East. We were soon joined by Lex '00. One of my favorite things

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  balloon rides were offered across the city on Saturday afternoon. And boy, it was hot on Saturday...about 98 degrees. Fortunately, they were ... the MIT campus (makes for a nice walk on most nights). (I think I may

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  this one on April 2nd. Of last year. I was looking through my blog drafts ... got around a 96% on an exam at some point in my freshman year, and that was when I peaked during my MIT career. A grade that high on an exam was

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would ... ="Boston drivers"]the most dangerous thing on planet Earth.[/annotation] A car has ... to class on time. You are a bit chaotic, but you embrace it, and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... so enjoyable. There are two sessions a week, one on Tuesday and one on ... . On Tuesday, students present on a randomly selected song from the album

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  physics class every Tuesday and an algebra class every Wednesday. i. on ... around, or openly be on their phones during class, or talk to their friends ... . on teaching Both the physics teacher and the algebra teacher I observe

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  prefrosh, as so many hosts refer to theirs, arrived on Thursday morning. We ... what happens, the show must go on. You have to maintain composure and ... step out of their slumber and into the courtyard. I put a patty on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022