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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  (I have a lot more unfinished posts on their way - as well as answers ... here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said ... is awesome!). To be considered for a blogger position, you should email me (benjones at you-know-the-rest) by August 31st, 2007 and: Provide a

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  rain. Gotta love a barbecue. Mmmm, polish sausage and Star Market ... plastic balls on you. And you. And you and you and you. Yeah, that's a lot ... your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at ... students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The event officially began

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go tomorrow. I hear from a friend who knows that team very well that they ... , leading to a lot of frosh from warm climates making exclamations like "OMG

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of Wikipedia: The film depicts a future in which human beings, known as "Oms" (a ... human beings - one Traag week equals a human year. Some Oms are

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  perspective of a current student.. yes, there are girls here..") So I was ... time to prepare a list of questions either. So just in case you'd like to ... this evening, but just in case you didn't get a call from me specifically

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  Class of 2010, here's one more... Central grad's MIT future a family ... , Lozada had to work, and later, she started a family. Today, she will see ... -year-old will board a plane at San Angelo Regional Airport/Mathis Field

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a ... next wave of applicants. "Just because you haven't heard of a college

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  Where in the world is Melis? Clues: laundry is free, my room is a ... on that later. But first, a State of the Institvte address. The school year ended with a fizzle. I must admit, I love rolling out of bed on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  Charles is a very dirty and very old river. As Wikipedia tells us: Despite ... will hold a review (location, time TBA), where we will arm and outfit you ... ! Anyway, so, uh, last Saturday? my floor decided it would be a good idea to

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

  Term time again

  

  'm doing a bad job at this regular updating thing. I promise that within the ... such as amino acids, proteins, and related compounds. Takes chemistry, a subject I'm poor at, and applies it to biology, a subject I'm good at. We

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  you know I recently added a new member to our family. Miles Nathaniel ... , I believe my dad said it best, "Wow, looks like you gave birth to a toddler!" Yes, he's a very big boy. As we settle in with our newest bundle

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  hand and Fire Viper on the right hand--it's way better than a Fireball ... fats, the carbohydrates (A) and amino acids (B) react to form some crazy ... . 3. Trying to order earbuds and a cast iron skillet from Amazon.com. I

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

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  sheets. The most review sheets I ever had for a class was 12, front and ... pathway. I'm not sure what that thing is, exactly, but I sure learned a lot ... had like a googol pies and a cupcake tree and pure Breyer's ice cream

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  , but my milk was in a fridge on Conner 4 (along with my eggs, apple juice ... went so far as to have breakfast there Saturday morning. It's a long story. A really long story. So since C3 is halfway between C2 and C4, so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always ... friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  previous entry that a little over a week ago on 5th East we had one of our ... reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... . She was also this year's virgin. In this picture, she is wearing a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  , particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... . This figure doesn't include recitations -- a recitation is a discussion

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off ... may be a liberal from the OC, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like to ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005