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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  "You're joining a fraternity? What?!?!?!?" I think this is what a ... friends were going to be. All I knew is that I was coming to MIT with one ... own. Nothing crazy is going to happen to your son or daughter, and no

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  Where in the world is Melis? Clues: laundry is free, my room is a ... stairs and cramming into the humid, moist basement of Next House is too ... to sleep soon. Waking up early is killing me!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... MIT students can "drop" a class. MIT is fairly flexible about things, as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  fun it is to work the registration desk at midnight. McGreggor strikes ... ) showed off his graceful dance moves. [video] Steph ('06) is super happy ... pictures until the closing ceremony. This is what you guys looked like from

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  .mit.edu/orientation. You'll find various dates and ARC contact information there. What is ... is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send the deposit? No deposit is required. Just be sure to send in the form

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people we ... with that? It is true that we have not utilized the waitlist in the past three years. It is hard to know beforehand exactly how many students will

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

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  Okay, so it's been inexcusably long since I last wrote here. This is ... . :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... 'm here to do is tell you about life at MIT. Selection's all over and the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time ... " Nance) understand that having Miles around is A GOOD THING! It was all ... new award, it is given to the to the 2 year old who best demonstrates

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  . In case you just tuned in, my job is to turn turkey carcasses into oil ... -grade oils. Anyway, the problem is that in addition to getting oil from the ... of symmetry, seared meat is delicious for the exact reason that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  : I'm taking 14.41 this term Professor: Oh, is that PF? Student: No, I ... is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... as I love Triscuits, but sleep is one of them. Okay I'm losing focus

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to ... TA waves at me, says "Bye-bye!", and points to the board, on which is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... of you give back to the community. It is not hard to tell when someone is just going through the motions or trying to pad their application. I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  Brain and Cognitive Sciences: The disorder is complex, both in its genes ... building is a plan to try to combine brain-scanning with genetics to figure ... define diseases. The hope, he said, is to find patterns in the brain scans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  questions about what major he is (Mathematics (Course 18) and Linguistics ... understand!) A graph is just a set of vertices connected by edges. You can ... rainbow cycles, where a rainbow cycle is a set of edges that form a cycle or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  reading season. The "love" part is that I love reading apps. I love reading ... community. (This last one is a bad idea - with such a low admit rate, it ... myself.) The "hate" part is simply that there aren't enough hours in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  are too expensive. Jeremy is just so immature and blunt that he will ... stalking. They meet for dinner, where conversation is forced and trite, and ... has a future. Mirabelle is forced to choose between Ray and Jeremy, two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  premise of Reawakening is that our hall has its own dark god, Krotus. Krotus is painted in the lounge, and in many other places on the hall, and he ... . She was also this year's virgin. In this picture, she is wearing a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  Since I just finished a 5.60 problem set, my brain is approximately ... something short about the last few entries' comments on my blog. (5.60 is ... Saturday. I am very psyched that Sam is planning to join the marching band

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  When you have a 2.5-year-old and a 3-month-old, anything after 6AM is ... why certain kids get in when others do not. This is a big goal of ours ... campus - Loomis is a beautiful place. Loomis Chaffee has somewhat of a sad

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  Science and Technology Initiatives) Week, this week is worthy enough to be ... is very extensive and would not fit here, so check it out.) Events of ... there is the Career Fair itself. A ton of companies (~250 -- see the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005