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  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  my stretched attempt at trying to tie in a completely unrelated, but ... coming to an MIT presentation help my admissions chances at all?" This is ... improve what we do on an annual basis, but at no point does information

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  . My title comes from a motivating example they gave us at the beginning of their program. A company representative at a career fair came to MIT ... . Ouch. You know, I looked at the clock when she came in. It was 8:59 and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  potential applicants looked at their families and then looked at each other ... look at the new app (yes, I know, many of you already have) we really ... Educational Counselors name and contact information while you're at it. They are

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and ... sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist ... back and looked at the stars, listening to the cars hiss by underneath

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  ), maybe because you can buy a cool stick that they brand at every station on ... - thanks, Wikipedia: Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 m (12 ... -changing. LEGENDARY. And so we started off at the fifth station, shortly after

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ... valedictorian at Lucy C. Laney High School. He plans to major in electrical and computer engineering at MIT. Terence Dalbert: "I always loved math, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  video, Challenges at the Office, was produced by a alum friend of mine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  -written at all. I was not lying when I told this man what I thought. Take this ... can get." He looks at me as if he is all about the antifeminism, so ... glares at me, probably convinced I'm an ultra-promiscuous feminazi out to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  World AIDS Day 2008 Spread the word.

  

  around campus, including a "film" screening by lbgt@MIT. Tonight at 5

  • by Snively '11
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  ordered for myself online, I really do love getting mail. At this point

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  , and a nice walk back from dinner, we ended up back at the dorm and I

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the ... . We're pretty good at the pirate sports: rowing and fencing are Division ... 're really good at shooting (we've won the national championship in pistol 2 of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm living at Bexley for the summer and working just a short distance ... promised we'd be together forever. And yet, I found myself at a Lysosomal ... introduced as a senior at MIT. Yikes. Of course, all the actual seniors are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... tickets at the door for one show, and I help sell tickets at the other show ... before Wilson got involved. At this point, fighting the war was him "and

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  I was just reading Wired Magazine online and came across this. Specifically, let's look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion. The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  demonstrated at the Anything But Clothes Party 2 years ago. Anyway, I had used a ... , which was at 12:30. Then I noticed the small note below my username ... at music. Also, music is dumb. Intervals are just stupid. I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  , apprehension, and expectation all at the same time. Last weekend, as I waited to ... important things in life is to be at peace with where you are and what you ... no way a judgment of you as a student or as a person," everyone at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  . Something that isn't centered on the United States, even. Anything at all ... ! Don't be as bad at it as I am. -If you do get in, don't get all self ... I suck at life!" guy is when he turns into the "I knew I'd get into

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  -9-9-9." Went to sleep at 9:30 every night because staying up past 10:00 was a ... .01 (economics) pset. (ever want to know what a study room looks like at four in ... almost couldn't turn in my pset because it was overdue (it was due at 12

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  I've realized that at this point I've pretty much conveyed this type of image concerning my life at MIT: While true some of the time, I ... class at 9 AM every morning, struggling to stay awake during lecture after

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008