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• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  OMG there aren't enough blanks on my application to talk about the 20 ... . Person A got XXX on my SATs, and Person B got YYY on their SATs. YYY >

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The ... , Mitra! I went on the flying trapeze last year but this year I was just too ... course, I wore my MIT hat everywhere. On just our second night there, when

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  site to learn more about him. My favortite page is the one on which he ... to change the world. That part was just icing on the cake. As he explains on the kids' page: "Think about most of the bad things that have

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  Apparently opening up the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue was only ... on her shoes. The voice feedback ("Your average pace is..."") is ... on a Likert scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is least awesome and 5 is most

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below, I put on my rings, along with those of my friends, Anna, Shaye, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  On Monday, I went to an afternoon tea sponsored by Course 21L ... : Chemical Engineering), who is at MIT on the Cambridge-MIT Undergraduate ... , is reproduced as a high-quality wall-sized print and displayed on the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  on. Right: Mari and Gisele watch the serenade. Also related to Valentine's Day: did you know that those little candy hearts with sayings on ... finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  several components -- the gel, the membrane, the electrodes on the gel box ... little skittish around them. On this particular day, one of the mice had ... out if you spill it on yourself. I spilled some... and decided to see if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  I will promptly get on a bus and go to New York City. The MIT Alumni ... Association has a search engine on its site that lets you search by year, major ... September commented on the "Marathon Sports" entry with a question about

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the ... email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been ... ! Rats, foiled again! I also hope to catch up on blog questions as soon as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  A couple weeks ago, Mitra commented on her CI-M (Communications Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... potential. Thankful enough, everything was on Matlab so everything was

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  he showed up on campus as a freshman, he was very different. Clean ... parties going on that night, and the other two were a lot closer, but I didn ... probably the reason that I ended up on 5th East, which has changed my life in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes ... qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both ... 's and 5's on all tests. I'll pause here to add that I frequently saw

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  lie on a certain vertical straight line. This has been checked for the ... interesting solution would shed light on many of the mysteries surrounding the ... blog entry on course 18. So this week, LSC sponsored a book talk by the

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  goes on, as we add pieces to the collection each year. Selected students pick up their art beginning on Wednesday. Any winnings not collected by Friday are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  was totally wrong about bikes on campus. I've always walked to class and lab, which is really kind of stupid if you live on the far west end ... 's dad insisted on buying me a cute blue bike with a pink stripe yesterday

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  . The resort had a circus school, so I learned to go on the flying trapeze ... yellow and orange sail), I'm hoping one day I'll be good enough to go on ... are on the far right, I'm sort of hidden in the back.) Well, now that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate ... 'm taking the GRE general test on July 19, and the biology subject test in ... , and got a 33rd percentile on the test. The next night, I dreamed that I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... enroll) on record. The numbers won't completely settle for a little ... their help with outreach efforts. We had an 86% yield on international

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... take his class) and his group on the Human Genome Project, perhaps your class will be doing UROPs with Lander on the Human Cancer Genome Project...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005