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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  Pardon me for the grammatically incorrect tonight title (in the ... 't been thinking about blogging, or continuously scratching down ideas for ... the end of the day, they aren't going to do your psets for you, or call

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for ... stories for Rune, MIT's student-written and published literary magazine ... in order to create something fun and new. For example, painting skills

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  year. I then received a stack of about ten single-sided sheets, one for ... the pre-frosh I called were from the Midwest, since I asked for people ... was all fine with me. If for any reason you didn't get a call, you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for ... chipmunk preparing for a very grueling natural disaster. Anyway.) Our service

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  that happen? Most of campus is already cracking down in preparation for ... across the east side of campus for my UROP (more about that later) when I ... . Sorry for the inconvenience! -Paul) Likewise, the traditional "robber

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  with Michael about his vision for the next generation of college campus ... school for a Masters in Comparative Media Studies. Basically, there is no ... a thesis for my program, and the profs - from day 1 - tend to scare

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  Next Saturday, October 20th, is the deadline for Early Action applicants to contact their interviewer (and, if you're applying for regular action, you may want to set that interview up pretty soon as well). For MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  takes advantage of. For example, you can borrow a laptop, read MIT Alumni ... learned from them and used them to confirm that I wasn't ready for graduate ... often help with funding if you do it through the Institute. Prepare for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about ... is also a licensed professional wrestling manager and performs for ... an academic look at topics in popular culture. For example, this term

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  So this is a big week. This, is not only production week for photography class (exhibitions for final projects are next monday), which is ... class, 2) required for physics majors so generally our little budding

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 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…

  

  grandparents, but they're a little too touristy for a future Boston resident to pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... THERE. Like, right out my window. For two-thirds of you, it's just going

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

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica ... than stellar. Also, this curly hair thing? So not working for me. Anyway ... season is starting! I don’t know for sure, but I’d say you can expect to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  ? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the night before. My clothes were laid out for me, my lunch would be packed ... changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  waving parents and sister and dog, you head for the burritos, and you ... for you to eat this burrito without ketchup, and Angela, head ablaze, is ... for you and your burrito. Especially with ketchup. You see a long line

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Gold Medallion 2006 award for ... . However, rather than settle for a second choice, the valedictorian at Charles Herbert Flowers High School started applying for scholarships early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 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?

  

  allowed me to live at home. For this summer, it was more economical and practical to work at the NIH since I'm also studying for the MCATs and I have ... for the summer. The dorms' summer rates for 2006 range from $1

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  then go to them for free and pretend that I'm promoting socialization ... enthralling, but then for the rest of the game the ring of monitors is just used to display advertisements for discount lumber companies in 360 degree

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story ... I received on Dr. Tabacco's second test (my lowest grade at MIT for three semesters), I never stopped loving her, even for one moment. I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A ... the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication in Cell. (For anyone who follows science journal impact factors, this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  ) paper. This 13-page masterpiece (cough) for 21A.260, on cross ... about biomedical ethics. It wasn't a bad concentration, but it's tough for ... all the chairs in the microscope room are too short for me to see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005