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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  design is cool. I used to be pretty good at it, but then I stopped learning ... destroyed the entire page!!!"), but I find it really rewarding at the same ... 's pretty cool to look at a page I created and take pride in its

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  this term, wrote an opera based on The Great Gatsby that was premiered at ... think that thus far, 5.13 has been my absolute favorite class at MIT. I ... are great at decorating their floors and ceilings (that's Fort Awesomer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... hour later. That's how tired people at MIT are. Thirteen hours later, having not left campus for home at all, I triumphantly completed this thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I ... that biology is different at the high school and undergraduate levels, particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  they need to admit. At this point, colleges will begin admitting students from the waitlist. Students who accept this offer will "unenroll" at the first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  at the same time hopeful that the students we couldn't find room for at ... to Engineering & Science (free) summer program at MIT. And again, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  't worry about it. Shaye: Really? Wouldn't Bryan be mad at us? Yuan ... we met at Harper's Ferry? Shaye: Oh yeah, we'd gone there to audition ... at MIT. A cappella, symphony orchestra, concert choir, WMBR student

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  students in attendance! Background: There are five sororities at MIT, four of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is ... !) At 9, we opened up our doors to everyone. I saw a bunch of friends, old

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Am wrote: "I was admitted early and definitely plan on going. At what ... should aim to keep your grades at or near the level they were when you were ... of these answers - we are not considering the Writing score at this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  IAP without learning a little bit, at least. Let's hop in the Techno ... 'd spend 4 hours every Saturday at etiquette school trying to learn how to ... "Pomp and Circumstance" on the kazoo. We did arrive at Charm School

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  , it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... , I never really do the Ben and Jerry's thing. I can buy that at the

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  in the sink at all, ever, for any reason (or in any other constantly ... Marching Band at Royal Bengal, a pretty decent $7 Indian Buffet two blocks ... Burton Conner Ski Trip leaving tomorrow for Cannon Mt. at 5:45 AM sharp

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  ), but I can't go home yet because I have 7.31 at 3:00 in the Whitehead ... TA waves at me, says "Bye-bye!", and points to the board, on which is ... test can sometimes be a very good thing at the end of term. Second, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  chest rant-style! Dear Teacher At A Very Prominent School From Which Many ... change at least one sentence so that there is some indication that you ... how much we at MIT appreciate you and how much effort you put into your

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  --stay with me here--AAA, ATS, and CSC, and also featuring KSA, JAM, VSA, and ... can only capture, at most, one ten-thousandth of the grace that Gloria ... at winning a fortune cookie. Certain fortune cookies were stuffed with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  're pretty informal. No shows at halftime -- at least not yet. Laura commented ... are not good enough, it's just that there aren't that many dorm rooms at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  , in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I ... Verde's (grocery store in the student center) and bought a banana. At this point, I ... invited me to lunch at the Kendall Food Court. We got lunch with Stephen

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... would fit at MIT - something the paper application alone can never match ... experiences and memories about his/her time at MIT. The interview really is a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  , because I'm sort of taking 60 units and working at my UROP 16 hours a week ... today. To top things off, I went in at 7 AM today, and will probably go in at 7 AM again tomorrow. I guess the real issue here is that I (like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  two weeks. You know, until I arrived at MIT, I didn't think I had a ... at least 2-3 times a week (by now, of course, I have a group of people ... general? We're a bit underrepresented at MIT, especially if you count the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005