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• 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

  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

  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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... cellular, molecular, and developmental biology, so no ecology classes for me ... sleep statistics for other variables. Definitely. I tried to look at hours

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... years. 1. The night before my final paper was due for 21L.009. This was ... South Station, sat down in a train bound for Philadelphia, and collapsed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! This entry is a eulogy for my ... projects I've been working on at my UROP for the past two years. So first ... receptors, which suggests that it's important for maintaining the strength of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  Hi, I am Stu Schmill, and I am responsible for organizing MIT ... , I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a mechanical engineer. I went to work for General Motors in Detroit designing

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... everything's closed for the night. What do you do? Put the two together, and ... lifted, and this vacuum attachment moves in for the kill. There are

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  happened and cleared everything up for me, but it made yesterday a little ... early for cross country. (All the freshmen who are here this early are ... else comes in for Orientation next weekend.) I went back to my room and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until ... for dinner; Pritchett Dining is open for dinner on east campus. I ... food, of course, being one of the hardest things for this transplanted

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  , I didn't have any "formal" clothes, especially not for warm weather. I ... discuss our respective plans for the Institvte. So I went to the Garment ... Newbury Street could fit on the palm of my hand. So I puzzled for a while

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference of the New England Association for College ... northeast arrive for the NEACAC conference. In the first session of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005