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• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I'm posting my own tale of being admitted last year. Since this is the second ... what to do about the situation, and I saw only one way out: the crowbar

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  're probably trying to jam it in. Slide it in." "I AM sliding it!" "Do you see ... longer drive in college), and you parked your car, and all you had to do

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  . His "to do" list includes discovering the mechanisms of cancer, decoding ... technology and techniques needed to do that work. But Lander is not one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  testing center by noon, and I was a little lost. Arrive late. Do not pass ... completing 2 essays, the math section, and a verbal section, I am offered to do

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  , so please invite folks in your labs. Finally: If you have time, do ... to do in life, surround yourself with intelligent people and nice

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  recapping to do. This is the most awesome picture I took this summer (the bag ... a mud puddle. I don't know, it seemed like the thing to do at the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  'm doing with my life), so I took AP Chemistry and two years of AP Computer ... 't even sweat it. It never hurts to know how to do a chi-square test (or to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  're paying for food in the first three weeks, you're doing something wrong ... doing with my life. Over a hundred student groups were present at the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  that says "We're doing this to really learn!" to me. Everything was ... background was enough to clear my head. I do know nothing can really prepare

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  you know / Listen, find out as you go / I knew much more then, than I do ... to get advice on UA stuff (I still do this - Ben teases me and says

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  more entries that provided a snapshot of what I was actually doing, but ... you think. "I like what you're doing, keep it up" is a valid answer, as

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a ... nice things that I do," she said. Ramanan wasted no time in submitting a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  Phil asked, "oh btw Melis, would u equally prefer working at MIT doing a urop over the summer as working at NIH? I was thinking about ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  up the coast, but we do get some pretty sweet nor'easters, especially ... in the church himself (he sent somebody else to do it), and that the it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  actually do make some regular hot dogs now, but that's only because of the ... brain and cog sci) and doing research in bioengineering

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... grounded and relevant. On those days when I wonder why I do this for a living

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  's limited to 100 students in a lottery. So, we'll see if I can do it. I ... who still don't have any idea what they want to do with their lives. If

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  an MIT woman. I'll say right up front -- although I do understand why ... as you're smart and good at what you do, nobody cares whether you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of ... pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  fluorine was a good nucleophile or if it was possible to do an SN2 reaction ... hall. Do you see how terrible I look next to the radiant Dr. Tabacco? She

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006