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• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... 'd never met anyone from MIT until my MIT interview. Still, I applied. On ... knocks on Bryan's door.) Mom: "Telephone." Me: "Who is it?" Mom: "MIT

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  from consulting firms and investment banks showed up on campus last fall, she went on several interviews, and she will take a job as a consultant ... , here's what you're going to be working on.' Even if it's a really cool

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  wealth of activities on the IAP calendar with my busy schedule of turning ... night, so I guess it was a jorb well done. A pox on Jeremy and Javier for killing Laura and I (the two inspectors, no less) on their first turn as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  premiere of Beauty and the Geek 2, which Matt's friend Ankur '03 is on. I don ... right away when they get back. ouch. He even brought some reading on Veto Bargaining with him to the BSO. I, on the other hand, got to sit down and read

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  (shown concurrently on our television with a giant strawberry dropping in ... Game," and so on. You can call it whatever you like. Divide your ... phrases on five slips of paper. Fold up these pieces of paper, stick all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  here are the most popular ones: What's the deal with calling on Thursday ... tomorrow (Thursday, 12/15/05) instead of beginning on Friday (as originally ... accessibility of the admissions officers, etc.). We try to connect with you on an

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Department of Defense, so his family lives on Okinawa, and it would have been ... back here. So instead he came to Plymouth with us on his first visit to an American suburb. We took the commuter rail out of South Station on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  at MIT can you walk past Building 32 (yeah, fine, the Stata Center) on ... , basking blondes are no match for pillows in flight. Back on Tetazoo, I ... fanfare on Killian Court attracted some attention. Several tourists and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each write once a month or so to tell you what we’re thinking about, working on, and hear your thoughts on this whole admissions process. I look forward

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  Harvey will care that I bled on the 'S'?" I carved out the letters in "East ... . Our posters had Krotus, the dark lord of 5th East, on them, with ... Rush is not going on, so we had stir-fry cooking, smashing things with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  So, Online Freshman Advising Folders became available on Monday ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... elective credit for my score on the Spanish Language AP, so that was a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  Browsing Matt's blog reminded me that I have a blogiversary on the ... brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as ... conferences so that other schools can start similar programs - I'd say we're on

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  would have quit long ago. Anyway, the rest of this post is on a somewhat ... too far. Oh, just read on to find four things you'd never expect to see ... study on our reactor, so we only need to set up this UV spectrophotometer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... ask if he could please get on the internet and find where the subway ... during the day on weekdays, when I'm almost never in the city. After

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  --the sweetest place on Earth--and having taken the Chocolate World tour ride ... about the incident. This might be entertaining as a throwaway joke on the ... these establishments based solely on how well they dispense Harry Potter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  discussion on ec-discuss is, of course, always of the highest quality, Andrew ... circumference. On which Amittai '01 helpfully elaborated, with... yeah! it ... base anyway and just change the constant. pi on the other hand gets used

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  free-spirited. Daisy is now living the life out on a farm where she can ... neighbor's fence, we considered her partially ours as well. They went on to ... East Campus, Bexley, Random Hall, and Senior House also allow cats on

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  classroom than on the baseball field. I went to MIT, majored in mechanical ... , building cars and playing softball on the weekend with friends. This was 1983 ... friends were working on fluid dynamics, heat transfer, things like that. So

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  's recent post, I decided to set my iTunes on random and see what happened ... understand just how incredible they were. 0x5. Bon Jovi, Livin' on a Prayer ... 't read Korean, but it's track 11 on The Third Eye]. Cherry Filter is one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  admit will we pass them on to Daniel for his office to determine how much ... socioeconomically diverse. 2. There is a quota on the number of international ... few additional notes: * We have no quotas on individual countries, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005