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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  been my first choice for most of high school, but for a brief period of ... my old top choice came. I wavered for a moment. I knew at either of the ... convincing, further affirmation that MIT was really the right place for me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  's movie marathon was one such event I had to attend. Slated for viewing for ... butcher a weekly rate for both food and board. And finally: Star Trek 2 ... : If you had to pick your top five sci-fi movies for a marathon, what

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... for traveling. I was recently in Istanbul, somewhere I never thought I'd end up, especially while all my friends at MIT were preparing for finals

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  , which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... and Barrel is about a 30-minute walk from my dorm. For those of you who ... for her brilliant husband Jeffrey and all of her flamboyant friends. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  's not just for engineers. Undergraduates in the Dept. of Urban Studies and ... to complete the requirements for both degrees at the end of five years ... might do in Course 1, civil engineering (see the Center for Transportation

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend ... responsible for the first appearance of Smurfs. The Foreign Languages and ... for this small country! Willem De Graeve will discuss the history of

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  's where you come in. The contenders: LOST I've been an addict for two years. Clearly this will be one of the four; no need for discussion ... wife for this. I vowed never to watch this show, ever. But my wife's a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  started for Isaac when he was born. ''We know we have the first two years ... years. My husband tells Isaac, 'Even if I have to eat beans for the whole ... college degree. Elizabeth Lozada said her family's pride for Isaac outweighs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  man reading the words, but then, in retrospect the prize for first place ... never really forgave myself for that day back in 1996, and it's probably a ... choices. Eventually I settled on Mechanical Engineering, and for me that

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  be completed, they're yelling for (at?) you. Ever since I got accepted ... in the same place, I don't stay there for long. I spent half of my last ... Sudoku puzzles, and live for double entendres and free food. I know all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  jerk. Miraculously, it didn't even bleed one drop for the rest of the day ... , having not left campus for home at all, I triumphantly completed this thing ... get to pass 6.002 for one. But you also get music. Sweet music. I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1 ... wanted to donate blood for a demonstration. I thought he was joking and ... amount of blood (2 vials full), while everyone watched in awe (except for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday ... /NJ) four very expensive coffee-flavored quesadillas for dinner in Times ... Ruth and Matt for making the trek to my apartment on Saturday night when

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  longer essay? The Part II is a great place for us to get to hear your voice and understand what is important to you. Then, it's time for your ... thinking about your high school, I have a sense of what opportunities for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that ... my classes for the long haul. (Truth be told, I've never dropped a ... swimmingly; for example, we had a great discussion in 7.31 (Current Topics in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  I certainly learned a lot from Dean Khoury's talk with us. For ... radar. What does this mean for you? For one thing, it means you'll have ... at MIT, a beautiful and cutting edge Laboratory for the Performing Arts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  shark biologist (forgive me for my miseducation but I did not know we had ... to enter the other eye. There are two common systems for doing this ... mainly used for television 3-D effects, and was used in many older 3-D

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  varsity sports teams (tied with some school up the street, I've heard, for ... rate is consistent with the national average for 18 to 22-year-olds -- any analysis which suggests otherwise fails to properly account for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  with a nice steak. Our waiter didn't ask for her ID, and I was a little ... took us all to Jillian's for some fun and food. It's a pretty rare ... even cooler for their car. And even more cooler than that because they

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  old. I'm a carefully sensitive romantic and a sucker for international ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people ... thing. I am not exactly a traditional student, though for a while I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005