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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  doubleshot from LaVerde's, and get ready for their first exam of the fall term ... , pulled an all-nighter studying for it, realized I didn't know my butt from ... high school, I got a 95 on my first 8.01 test after studying for like one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  Pal account to donate for shipping. We can still have awkward conversations ... , especially since I haven't been doing any of that (thinking, that is) for the ... United States for about two weeks, whereas I spent all of this summer in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... 2007 Brass Rat, and Matt has written briefly about the Brass Rats for the ... benevolent than the rough and tough beaver chosen for the 2005 ring. He

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you ... the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a ... was here for good. I loved every second of it, but I was also homesick

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up ... 's why Wikipedia was invented. I think Wikipedia is the ideal task for ... stockpile cases of Coca-Cola in 1985 for fear that her only son would be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... nation before you go there, especially in a language so well known for its ... most beverages will run you about $US 2.50, for one can with no refills

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... there, for your amusement. Consider it an excuse to friend me. The Last ... waitlisted and prepare it for the waitlist committee. And bug committee members

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a ... go to Harvard Med, and I'm not even premed. But never fear (?), for I ... , and I'll be doing my PhD for at least the next five or six years, so we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... I've done this year really matters for my next steps -- graduate schools don't ask for mid-year reports or expect that you'll keep your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  these exams is pretty much look for the right answer. Thus, if you weren ... that was used in EA will be back on the table for RA (with any additional ... added to my folder after my application has been read for regular

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  of Firefly, which I got for Christmas, with my sister - Seen King Kong ... -in-law - Seen (and lived in, for a few days) my dad and stepmother's huge new ... would like to transfer to MIT for their electrical engineering program but

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  Porter Room Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever ... ! Apple Bake has been a fall culinary tradition in Burton-Conner for the ... for an entire weekend, flooded the field, and won most of the prize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... cultures. You see, I have this theory that for MIT dorms, function follows ... . "weird"? Except for Simmons, which is across the athletic field from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  ?" and the song goes on like this for like 23 minutes, because there was a ... splashing for a while and the harp plays festive arpeggios that lead us into ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for ... program that will save 200 lives for sure. In the second version, one ... . The overall admission rate for the class of 2009 was 14.3%. (From here

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  entering, sitting down, then standing up again and screaming for two and a ... for a second. Would you really continue toward that sign? Read on at ... ended up being pretty excited about the concert for two reasons. 1. Fans

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  phone and carrier intended for incoming '09s and even for prospective students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... to start charging $17 per month for any non-MIT calls (I believe this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  anybody, except for this one Russian film version with a lot of broken ... front of the stage, which was necessary for that crucial scene where ... Guildenstern with an inflatable pool toy, swims around for a while, and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... , blah blah. Besides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of ... my senior year as practice for the PSAT on October 17. No test prep, no

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on ... transformed.  The moment was ephemeral. For totality, the difference between 99 ... I couldn’t have prepared myself for the stir of emotions that suddenly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024