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• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... would ever want me at their school? A year later, I still don't really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 ... later taught LEGO robotics to middle schoolers at RoboCamp. After ... designing satellite antennas and communication systems at Orbital Science

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the ... talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... my hands.) At this moment I'm sitting at my kitchen table feeling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  spending hours at a time talking animatedly to myself.) We created an online ... recitation instructors know how many students had listened to (or at least ... there was at least one person listening to my recorded voice. More amazing

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  "Adventures in Logan Airport." First of all, my first name is Keri-Lee. At ... ’s all fine and good, Keri, but what does this have to do with anything at ... boarding pass yesterday. Seat 5D. A window. Nice. At least I’ll have a lovely

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  : Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often ... admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ms. Jones said the ... -authors Marilee Jones, admissions dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  program readily available at my high school. I didn't have any AMC scores to ... school that you can take on yourself; classes offered at local colleges or ... found at my high school - it put me in a place where I was utterly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• 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 / 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