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• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  Even though it's been exactly a year since I found out I had been ... been outside on a cold, cloudy, rainy day when suddenly, almost without ... everything, if only for a moment? That's how clicking that button felt for me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  So we were a little more efficient this year in making decisions (i.e. none of this October business from last year!). I've spent a ton of time ... having to actually vote, which was a really nice conclusion to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Every year there is a contest sponsored by East Campus called the Bad Ideas Contest. Click around on there I don't think it's a secret. Two years ago, there was a really bad idea. It was built by First East (that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  ’s awkward to get a call during dinner from someone you don’t know. But, we ... curriculum. I went to a math and science Magnet program, so I came into MIT ... just a matter of personal preferences, as long as you finish your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a ... the tracks a couple of days later; sure enough, there was this: And

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right ... . Except at MIT, it's a waterfall of knowledge. As I said last entry, I won ... clearly stupid. I just made a few small alterations--I didn't have any curry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  hours in between. It makes for a nice lunch/blog update time.) Today is ... what my fridge looked like: That's right, its sole contents were a bottle of water and a box of seafoam fudge. Mmmm, the tastes of home. (I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  ?" Well, there are only a few vegetarian-only restaurants in the area (such ... Cafe." And Vicki added, "Veggie Planet in Harvard Square is a tiny hole-in-the-wall that a lot of people miss, but it has some great veggie options. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  The blogfathers in the admissions office requested a while back that ... each floor, along with one graduate student (called a "GRT," for graduate ... built or planned, and it's about eighty years old. It's been renovated a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  , authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an ... than Boston, is serviced by a vast network of streetcars and subways ... in all the train stations make up a personal itinerary for you listing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  instrument. 1. Do you have to be a music major to perform in MIT's ensembles ... concentration, and some who choose to declare a music minor or major - but the ... , private instruction. But all students with a serious interest in music

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... end up surfing the internet a little at work. One thing I found today

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a ... . One semester of chemistry is a general institute requirement at MIT, and ... people who have had enough chemistry." Students looking for a more rigorous

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  write once a month or so to tell you what we’re thinking about, working on ... to getting to know you. To tell you a little about myself, I’ve had ... terrific universities (including MIT). I never aspired to have a career in

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  , it's such a cool class!" I was enrolled in 8.02, and I was very ... how 18.01 is a prereq and 18.02 is a co-requsitie for 8.02. Since I ... physics). Just a heads up to the 4 other people in the world who test out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I ... afterwards we all got a chance to meet President Hockfield. (By the way, the T ... floor like a good frosh. Conner 2, where Sam and Mitra live, had written

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until ... because I was in lab until 7 tonight -- yes, on a Friday night -- and that ... generic meal plans like most other schools do, but instead have a sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  Corridor actually ends... in a parking lot Favorite thing about Boston: Bostonians only have a 25 Letter alphabet. No one knows what happened to the ... : Too many to name... Here are a few: Seventh Samurai, Dr. Strangelove

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

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown ... have to cure cancer and save a child from a burning orphanage?"). Anyway

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  how many years older than me?) And of course, who has a 375th birthday and doesn't have a party? I know I'm gonna party when I hit 375 (or ... giving away free Vitamin Water (I've recently become a big fan of Vitamin

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005