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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  what is a home-grown, born and bred, red-blooded American hick. It ... , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a ... short time) which is some 5 miles away. Someone asked me recently how I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  to Medical! One drawback to the program, however, is that you don ... . (For the most part, that is - I was still drugging myself with everything ... didn't actually work in PreCalc, since math is not my friend), then it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up more and more of my life. =) There's only a week left in IAP, which is a ... you get used to how awesome Firefox is, you can never go back to IE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... around anyway. (The way Mystery Hunt works is that the first team to find ... Hunt is over. This year, the Hunt organizers kept their HQ open for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  freshman on pass/no record is flippantly thrown around whenever work is ... thing I would say to this is be careful; it is so, so easy to burn out ... life. But don't let that inhibit you from recognizing this is a big step

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play ... supplement are not), and there is no portfolio review to take art classes or be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ." ...wow. Get ready folks, this is not an either or entry. You get both ... parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a ... not think this is that important, but when you're rocking the twin extra

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to ... being able to make food for myself. The latter is beyond terrifying, as I ... fellow frosh were in the same “MIT IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE AND I WANT TO GO

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... warns that today's overscheduled lifestyle is robbing children of the ... is that we have a tendency to want kids to look alike. We want them to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  only because my TA is Canadian and says "molar mahss") so I'm less ... seemingly obvious hole in the middle. So I know how easy it is to dwell on ... and maturity I gained from that experience is something I'd never have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  want to take them. MIT is similar in that our drop date is in November ... this is going to work out. Here's how the schedule goes right now ... really taken any official hip hop in my life. College is a great time to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  school (which is a phrase that makes me sound like I'm 64 and recounting my ... , though, the real reward is supposed to be incurring a love for the subject ... ranting, though. The point is that last night, a group of us helped our

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

  Meta

  

  This entry is kind of inspired by an entry that Anthony wrote. Yes, I ... feel like I did - it is quite possible that this blog is about the same now as it was at the beginning, and my perception is the result of

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

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

  

  Spackenkill Student is a Youthful Leader April 28, 2006 By Jeremy ... others. In Ramanan's case, the Red Cross is honoring one of its own. She has volunteered with the organization for two years. "Sulinya is one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  A rising high school senior who is currently in a prestigious summer ... as potential MIT '11s gear up to begin the admissions process. Below is ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  software site is a fully-licensed copy of Windows XP Professional -- I ... ://web.mit.edu/olh/zephyr/. You can change the name that is displayed when you send Zephyr messages ... registrar database.) d) MIT is piloting a Jabber IM installation, and you can

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  So the title is pretty obvious, I'm modeling this entry after Sam's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... school) trying to get me to go there. I didn't get into MIT." (Phone is no

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  accessible fashion while emphasizing three major points: 1. Cyclobutene is NOT FLAT. 2. Stereochemistry is the most important thing in the world because of THALIDOMIDE. 3. Fluorine is a TERRIBLE nucleophile. Despite the 59

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no ... least, but it just goes to show you how much there is to do during IAP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  (seriously, 41 kbps? WTF.) for five and a half days. This is probably the ... . True story. It is possible to succeed at MIT even if your high school ... scan on his computer. I guess MIT is an environment where you can learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006