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  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  , or something. I'm not very far from "the real world," as they say, and apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  Last week, I dropped 9.15 from my preregistration schedule for the ... terms, was the class I was looking forward to the most. The problem ... 72 units during my first term entirely on grades - especially the 72

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  The following entry was written by the very cool and talented Minh ... of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  breakfasts--every year, it's tradition that the seniors on Conner 2 make breakfast for the rest of the floor on the first day of finals. Since we can ... portable hollowed-out melon bowls. Basically, it's the greatest breakfast

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... . So keep the cash in your wallet for your MIT sweatshirt. Rule #2: If ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  students total (including the 390 from early action) for an overall admit ... 499 students a place on the waiting list. Decisions (and, for admitted ... , when the decisions come out, I know you will feel a range of emotions. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  As you may have read on the front page of mitadmissions.org, our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we have received ... the following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  the applicants. A similar number of students were denied, while those students in the middle, about three quarters of the applicants, were deferred ... 's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  failure did not determine the rest of my academic career. Fast forward 16 ... experiments: 2nd Grade: Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over? 6th Grade ... deserves a description. Back in AP Chem, me and my friends all sat in the

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

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... , and kept the rain off of me pretty well, although the ravages of time ... , because I got the umbrella three years ago at MIT when Shannon '05 lost my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  . We've spent the last year thinking about you, getting to know you ... admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super-qualified applicants, because we truly believe in you. And, in the process, we grew very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  night I completed the machine tools class, which means I finished making ... = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of the FSAE car. So far for FSAE I've made minor contributions to the frame

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of 2010, I'd like to take an opportunity to thank the many awesome faculty ... professors assist in choosing the class. In previous years, these faculty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  My room's dark, it's late Monday night, and the January respite from ... cleaning, but at least the laundry's done. I had a good experience with French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song "I Should Be Allowed To Think" by They Might Be Giants begins with the lyrics, "I saw the best minds ... Cloves and a Chicken. Basically you sear the chicken, cover it in oil, toss

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in ... the design project seriously, and thought that it'd be just plugging ... , and needless to sasy the project wasn't all about typesetting some

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week ... Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... spring, I took 5.12 (Organic Chemistry I). The night before the exam, I

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of my favorite things about the MIT schedule -- we have approximately one ... /25 (Thanksgiving). The calendar, I think, reflects the fact that MIT students really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  friend of a friend of Sam's Mom Because I am a fool, I also bought the wrong tickets for the Chinatown bus, which we need to have changed mere moments before our departure. That should be stress-free. The moral of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  Ocho, in Miami's Little Havana. The Cuban sampler at Versailles ... the opportunity to meet and dine with the Tampa Bay-area Educational Counselors (ECs) before the Central Meeting. The Tampa ECs and I dining at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005