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  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  MIT was packed to capacity with students eager to hear six MIT ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support ... Jeremy Wolfe, who used to teach a wildly popular Intro to Psychology class

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all. That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the ... what any of those numbers mean - have to force myself to say the actual

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the ... . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a fire hose. As you may have read, I was selected to be an admissions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... :43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I ... in New York City. Ruthie scored some tickets to The Colbert Report

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my top two choice schools!!! Needless to say, I did a happy dance. Still ... than when I got into MIT for undergrad. I knew I was going to get into

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a "barbarian wedding." There's going to be a great entry about all the fun Mitra and I had in New York last weekend, but I'm not going to write it until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... reimburse us for taking a faculty member out to dinner, since they want to encourage student-faculty interaction.) My friend Varsha '07 and I decided to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission ... here. They tried so hard to present their university as offering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  -absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  lucky enough to receive. You didn't mean for me to parade by myself, did ... their site. Do you have any idea what I'm supposed to look at, exactly? It always struck me as a tad odd that I should be "getting to know" a college

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  BG High Grad Gets Full Ride to MIT Amy Bingham / WBKO A former Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... math, and now it's paying off. He's preparing to leave for Boston on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... . Then your left hand. (It really helps to trust the person holding on to your belt.) Then lean forward. (This is where you really need to trust

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... math people. I'll be seeing you.To answer some recent comments: Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies ... government will sell shirts or hoodies with "MMX" or "MITMMX" on it (props to ... be using the waitlist, and, if so, how many people we'll be looking to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has ... prepared to take back their cannon. Although we're sad to see it go, we were only contracted to move the cannon here for CPW, and we respect the speed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking-to-the-nth, we are ready to mail decision letters tomorrow, and post decisions online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to ... letters and packages to be mailed. I'll keep you posted. Decisions will

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  shuttle to take me to SFO for my red-eye flight to Boston.) I'm really kind ... the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost ... at UCLA's interview weekend, I was lucky to have a faculty member tell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006