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  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  that the current structure of required/core classes leaves much to be desired, but it can be quite helpful for freshmen to take a variety of ... -year class plan of the department in which you plan to major. I'm being

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  (several hundred of them late this week; more will be mailed next week, be ... username that you won't be embarrassed sharing with your professors. In ... function as a second email address for you; this list name can be longer than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  .27 (Principles of Human Disease), so if I have to feel like crap, at least I can be ... illnesses tend to be localized (infected wound, UTI) while viral illnesses ... course you consider double majoring in be closely related with your first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Awkward Moment A little anecdote.

  

  prophylactics. After being handed said item, I quickly hid it in my pocket. My

  • by Bryan
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while ... should tell you where I'll be during CPW: CPW registration headquarters ... (where some of you will be staying for CPW). He showed this (in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  scrutiny and examination before being admitted. PERIOD. Hats off to those ... much pain you must be in right now. You too need to allow yourself a ... be written, so let it be done! Best of luck to everyone.

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  much coffee, you should be proud of them. (Let's keep this between us. As ... from your reaction. Remember this when they come home excited about being admitted to Existentialists University. The frown on your face may be related

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  Guess what! I passed my EMT practical exam! Yay! Now all I have to do is study real hard for the written test...yikes. And then maybe I'll actually get to be a real, certified EMT. Plus, I got an A on the paper I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  minors in Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, must be for having not one ... down, fats and sugar, you would expect it to be in high levels in obese ... still unknown, but could be crucial for further understanding the hormone

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  - it will indeed be in mid-March, but Mail Day depends on a variety of

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

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  language didn't get updated as it was supposed to. Hopefully this will be

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  that you pursue things that interest and challenge you. These can be ... , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics ... have is to be confidently relaxed. I hope that you have gone both through

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  a sports car because I'd jump to the end of a problem instead of being ... generations of former freshmen, since I'd waited two years to finally be the same age as everyone else. I figured I'd be going through something along

  • 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 ... -variable calculus should be necessary. Work hard! This took me like eleven minutes to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  quickly and accurately as possible. Please be patient. It's the same story ... three minutes (shouldn't you be in class?), we're trying our best to get everything updated. We're having what might turn out to be a record year so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like without the commitment, but then if I like it, would the MEng be a wasted

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a ... term how different my ultimate choice will be, but let's just say that when I applied, I thought I wanted to be a computer science major

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year Everyone! See you in 2006.

  

  I'm outa here until Monday, January 2 and I won't be able to respond to email or blog comments until that time, so I just wanted to wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a safe & fun New Year's! (I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  MIT just announced that Ben Bernanke '79 is going to be the graduation speaker for Commencement 2006. Bernanke has recently been nominated by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005