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• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  certainly cannot substitute for the real experience of being on MIT's campus ... very lucky to find out that my high school sponsors college trips for ... SLUSH. Now I was in the State of Massachusetts for the first time. A inch

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  . The house was without electricity and running water for quite a while ... weekend for the Alumni Leadership Conference, but the storm seemed to have ... line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  for the entire academic year one of more than 400 noted pieces of ... doors for a second chance to participate in this extraordinarily popular ... 's a trigger for inquiry and learning." Despite this free-for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  Trivia: Who was the first student blogger for MIT Admissions? And who ... of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new ... blogger as it was to be selected for MIT this year (11.9%)! Before we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  I've been putting off writing this entry for a week, because I simply ... the long, introspective part for a later entry, once I've had a chance ... Boston, which has been my home for more than a decade, and which will

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  next to the shattered fragments. We also took a few mementos. (For these ... anticipated, MIT being MIT, not having enough time for viola; and, both ... time for it. I'm going to practice over the summer and audition next fall

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  hosted a luncheon for the cadets where we heard an incredible war story ... importance while we were at CHICON. First, we voted for the Charles E. Yeager ... Arnold Air Society for 2008-2009. This resolution passed after heated

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  at my recitation for 5.12 (organic chemistry), where I spent an hour ... that up with another recitation, this time for 18.03 (differential ... . Weinberg - who was my professor for 7.012 last fall - is a brilliant

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  noticed an article about a commercial that Chuck Norris filmed for ... that I may have missed. - When taking the SAT, write "Chuck Norris" for ... : Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  humble opinion. I've spent the past week solving puzzles for Mystery Hunt, playing with cell culture for my UROP, and building stuff at my fraternity ... for me to join the official Simmons Hall team, which has played the Hunt

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  Gann has just arrived! He's dressed very nicely for a telethon, maybe he ... digging around through bunches of paper. Score one for blog comments being ... number two! We'll dig for more names. 11:14 pm Alright, I'm back in my

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  the prestigious Nobel Prizes, honoring individuals for achievements that ... -Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot ... Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, for instigating research &

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  for admissions work, but for years it has been taken over by students ... for years, and you will love the way that grades are flexible and ... will give you cookies without razor blades in them for trivial reasons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  market today that are designed especially for kids. These let kids do neat ... the brush into a local classroom for about five weeks to see how ... look for colours," she says, "they did it spontaneously." "One kid would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  I would love to take credit for the brilliant entry title, but ... 're not coming to Boston for the world-reknowned universities or beautiful city skylines, come for the incredible music scene) and Randall Munroe of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  : You have applied for freshman admission (not transfer or graduate). Your ... unable to display decisions for those who applied in Early Action and ... process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order to check your

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  and statistics class for course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). It ... class (either 9.07 or one of the others) for the major. Honestly, I hate ... 're in a major for which it's required. Also, because they're computer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I'm enjoying ... a shot at winning, and the latter for pure entertainment value ... : Dog, it was just okay for me. You want me to keep it real, right

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  , all dressed up for Christmas. This is my side of the room: and ... pictures for the sake of clarity. Because you see, we have a second ... REUSING some of the pictures I took for the viewbook.) A double in East

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to ... people, I'm surrounded by MIT people. This is a good thing for many, many ... figure out the chances. I am a sad, sad case. For the record: 1. I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007