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• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  ago, but you certainly don't visit them on a regular basis. You live ... lecturer, and the classroom was full at about twenty students. Even on the ... on these daily events as they progress. Hope you had a pleasant winter

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  'm taking it on grades, not pass/fail. Professor: I mean Public Finance) Here ... . THANKS, GUYS. The culprit. --- After dinner, I hopped on the bus and ... 's based on a short story of the same name by E. Annie Proulx. Last January

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  ten-year olds (and even staring at the pretty graphs on his poster), I ... , explain that he worked on a graph theory problem about the coloring of ... starring on Shaye's radio show. Aspiring mathematicians are in luck, as MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in ... on Friday, January 13, 2006. Team registration is now open. Like in the ... ). Our "map" of Normalville kept the team up-to-date on our progress. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  job that are getting placed on the back burner (we're simultaneously ... " - answer email, be attentive to the MIT forum on CC, etc. To me, this is ... to spend an hour on a single app. Sometimes that's just what it takes

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  Bryan '07 (Chair of the Committee on Housing and Orientation). Here we ... . Moving on...this one is back on 5th East, a week or two ago. Kim '04 dyes

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  'm sure sometimes undergrads and grad students work together on them. Right ... , but go check out Melis's UROP blog, which conveniently focuses on ... , most Halloween parties were on Friday and Saturday night, and, well, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... and then conduct further tests on those. The tour guide said that ... the lobby, you see a giant double helix pattern on the ground and four

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  is the best sauce. Then I got the best comment on the 10.213 test I ... lot of similar comments on my hand writing ever since first grade, but ... opporunity to see War of the Worlds for free--a premium discount on the already

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... included discussions on everything from admissions to the point at which ... booked). I'd relied on the past few years' Hartford numbers - less than

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  doused in olive oil and parmesean cheese. On the way home, Adam and I got ... than for students who choose not to interview. Also, get started on ... a postscript to Nehalita -- I hear you on the forcible DOFMH. We had

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• 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