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  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  day--I was usually home by 3:15 on Mondays, having finished up most of ... there was some jumping as we spilled it out on the kitchen table. We were ... AOL inbox at 6 PM on April 2 and pressing "reload" over and over again

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  . Why? Because they don't really need to focus on marketing or anything ... focus on Building 10 (better known as the Great Dome and environs). Because if somebody could assemble a police car on the dome, why not a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  to lab tonight at 7:30 to change the media on my COS cells... and if ... you were willing to knock on enough doors and really fight for a ... experience life on the east coast. A lot of kids from my senior class went to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my ... the nice part was that it only had 1200 miles on it, and it still had ... here he was climbing up on ladders building houses. He also shared some

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... worry. We do not assign blame on why we don't have it, we just know that ... fill out the Conducted Interview form on the MyMIT Application Tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  the contestants on the reality TV show Beauty and the Geek 2 (guess ... us at this time to check on the status of your application or to see if ... application pieces not showing up on your tracking. There's a lot of mail to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  regular action process. More on that in the weeks to come. Out of fairness ... inside of Interstate 495 (based on last year's mail patterns), with most students receiving decisions on Monday and Tuesday. For those of you not in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  head-on shot of my desk. It's the place that I store my most important ... . It's a simple concept. If it's important, it's on my desk. Out of ... material for me on my chair. I tell you what, after some papers with loose

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  ate it up. I will be having more turkey on Thursday in Plymouth, MA ... authentic about this... maybe I'll stop by Plymouth Rock on Thanksgiving and ... gorging on ALL THOSE CARBOHYDRATES.

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So ... you would walk down the corridor on the first floor and then go up the ... seemed to elude most of the latecomers who showed up on the third floor at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, at the University of ... responded, 24 spent as much as $10 million on programs for gifted children but ... American excellence." This is a topic we could talk about for hours on end...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  . This semester, we started school on September 7, have days off on ... Beirut, worked on graduate school applications, gone out to dinner at CPK

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  On Friday, my friend Weywey '06 (Course 2: Mechanical Engineering ... the one blue Sharpie in the entire thing. These folders were on sale ... Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of ... -Level Programs on Waste Reduction and Increased Recycling (by Matthew V. Brooks ... have your work published for all to see!!! I'm on the editorial board and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  freshmen were working on problem sets, and I volunteered to help some people on their math homework. (8 pm) I went to sleep at 4 am, and I still ... , try it on for size. Have fun!

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... you, I assume) am spending the day working on applications. Most of the ... competent as people think they are. (MIT's Careers Office held a workshop on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  Up until last Thursday, my only on-air experience was the one time I ... . So last Thursday, one of my friends, Shaye, who has a radio show on WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  , and our friend Mark, who used to live in our suite and now just lives on ... and sunny, and we got started right away on one of the innertube rides ... on the newest water slide, Dragon's Den. And I got to run around with a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  . The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city ... movies on the Esplanade during the summer. The many, many ice cream shops ... right answer to a question on an application. There is only the right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  room reading a book and my nifty-cool-non-default email sound came on ... very familiar topic. After reading on, I discovered that the article was ... our "Liver-on-a-Chip" project. Our research project is partially funded

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005