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• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  -record. It is meant to level the playing field, so that you will succeed at MIT ... responsibilities. You might get the Freshman 15 (I did…) from eating at all the free ... of activities on campus and realize that while everyone is a nerd at

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

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  teacher who no longer teaches at my school, and, as of today, he had not ... to see senior year grades at all, and if you're applying RA, mid ... , my chemistry teacher wrote my letter without having looked at the MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  , spectators at the Boston Garden reported seeing leprechauns in the rafters ... chairs that plan events like these at huge subsidies. One thing that I ... we were on the subway. At 2 PM in New York. The result was a Lucy and

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

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  a professor at MIT, Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer ... was the obvious choice. At MIT, he felt that the sky was the limit and ... studies at MIT by getting a Masters in Engineering (M. Eng) in Electrical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , particularly at the only college about which I know anything substantial. The ... learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most ... intellectual efforts of any given scientist, lab work fails at least half of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  heading home at the end of August. It's been great getting to know all these ... . Tomorrow all six hundred people at my site have to go to some workshop, so my ... 't have any fun at MIT until I get back next Monday. Just playin'. Enjoy all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... . It's otherwise known as the coolest and most useful project ever, at ... NHGRI and had headed the Human Genome Research project. At the NHGRI

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... entering my junior year at M.I.T., I saw a notice on the student bulletin ... author of the computer book I had read at 15, Edmund Berkeley. I told him

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... maybe I'll just have to walk to LA. I'm sure it will be awesome. At any ... thing I meant to write about a long time ago: At the end of this semester

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  consent) arrived at 9:00 and made pleasant conversation with me about MIT ... . One semester of chemistry is a general institute requirement at MIT, and ... an explanation of atomic number and its implications at the atomic

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

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  screwed up my back/shoulder/neck area at cheerleading camp tonight, and I kind of can't move my head. This makes sitting at my computer slightly difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... Characters, the bar/restaurant at the Kendall Square Marriot via the Infinite Corridor. Now, one of the things they give you at Orientation Check-In is the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  out our advising assignments. There are three advising options at MIT ... . Anyway, I made a stop at Barnes and Noble yesterday and picked up a new Spanish-English dictionary and now I'm fully ready to take some Spanish at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  becomes quite popular at school. Being a deskworker is the single greatest job you can get at MIT; you get paid $9 an hour to play Snood, press the ... chemistry at UIUC. Since they couldn't find a blindfold, they used their MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  the mail. After an awesome day at work (the exclusive camp we were going ... : Physics C- Mech: 5 Physics C- E/M: 5 I...am at a loss for words. I have ... tiny bit of information about using computer services at MIT. Now, if

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  at Loews in Boston Common. All summer, they are having free ... . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin ... employee at Coldstone calling me brave when I asked to try it. I should

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  of admission at top colleges. The emergence of the "national student." There are currently more students from California at MIT than from any ... ; happinessis the way." At this point, Ben and I headed off to get ready for our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  edit my application endlessly (at least until March), the edits I was ... started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice ... to look at this before publishing *cough cough* Jeremy 👀). Without

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising high school seniors ... . Learn more at https://summerscience.org/ Sophomore year was a lonely ... weeks at SSP, my priority was to make as many memories with my new friends

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025