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• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  worries; at the beginning of summer, MIT will send you a booklet on all the ... fits you. (That's a pretty sweet thing that's unique to MIT - at the end ... then rank your choices based on that and what you've seen of them, at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  study at MIT, what must be it be like for all these freshmen who grew up ... building that you'll probably go into for a class at MIT is called by number ... Cambridge, you're better off consulting a map or getting laughed at by Central

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  usually use. So don't look at the rest of the entry if you're on a dialup ... first marathon of line-waiting occurred at the Uffizi Gallery in Italy. We ... really bad at I Spy. After my first turn, Ling spied with her little eye

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  wasn't true at your high school, but in all ten classes I took there was ... to look at the one-track mind I'd developed and wonder if it'd be ... resolved to take it one day at a time. And I know it's silly, but watching

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  , various SIPB classes, and 2.670. I've been at MIT for three years. Some ... hall mural (at least not yet - I still have another year). Never built ... research in a foreign country. No: Never published a paper (at least not yet

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  to Berlin at... well, if it wasn't 5 AM, it was sure close to it. Of ... don't try to sit in the seats at Haagen Dazs, or this one lady who works ... that Verizon is the way to go. But I wasn't really looking at this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  at the outset, but it makes tons of sense once you understand the ... there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the ... building 8. At this point, you can take a jag left, then right, and find

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  by campus tours twice daily, at 10am and 2pm, every weekday throughout ... . At the conclusion of the tour, student tour guides lead a tour of ... Exploration Equation" which suggests some interesting places to visit at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  program running at a time so we don't kill the server again." Meanwhile ... handful of indy hackers made their run at the Straw Poll, the ballot box was ... . ("We're at a disadvantage, because we've got finals now and presumably no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with ... in Pasadena. I felt dumb, but I hung out at Rax's house for a few hours ... pretty wet. I looked at a nearby shop. The address in the window said "1810

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The ... drinks at the launch party, leap into the cars and head for Dover. Once we ... of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  , Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined ... meant, and I have a Monday class at 9:30 in the morning, which is early by MIT standards. Two things happened at almost exactly the same time to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  Kenna, Globe Correspondent | April 10, 2006 Undergraduate Mark Cote at MIT ... researcher at the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, has an impressive list of ... didn't know if there was a wind tunnel at MIT, but if there was, I wanted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... can begin. Of course, all 483 or whatever events that people have at ... like dead turkeys, underwater flame drills, and booby-trapped reactors at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... , restaurants, and salons (read: girly girl paradise). I bought a cute skirt at Anthropologie and some candy for Adam at Sugar Heaven, his favorite candy store

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  your first academic love." As for teaching science at the precollege level, salaries and working conditions are even more dismal. Students at ... , is a senior majoring in chemistry at Princeton, but when recruiters

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  was particularly boisterous at this weeks game, and I'm sure that our ... tremendously violent sport even at the MIT level; even from our vantage point ... , the cultural houses at MIT used to be in Burton-Conner, and Conner 2 was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to ... successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While ... president of which club next year... and my friends and I are looking at our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... at UCLA's interview weekend, I was lucky to have a faculty member tell ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  "Robotron", poke at their robot. We are helped in the lab by good staff ... Brian and me how to solder, but he is much better at it. Here he is, hard at work soldering. Our robot is round, but not everyone is using

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006