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• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  My name is Keri Garel, and nothing else in my bio is true anymore ... bio that are immutable; my birthplace will never not be Jamaica, and my love for pie is still only surpassed by my love for bacon and Arrested

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into ... associated with touching water that had once belonged to the Charles River and ... heroically toward MIT. Simultaneously bewildered and inspired by the aerobic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  're interested in watching Lulu, Kim and I graduate, you can watch the webcast ... get to turn it around, and that's going to be awesome. Maybe in a few days I'll have had enough time to process all of this, and write

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laptop There should be a special place in hell for laptop thieves.

  

  dammit, my laptop and camera got stolen out of my room. Campus police has been thusfar unhelpful as usual in locating the perpetrators. These entries might take a lot longer than I thought. Gotta start over. Good thing

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  robots in 6.01 and writing about riboswitches in 20.111 ...and probably a ... where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a huge decision, and I hope the admissions blogs and events like Campus Preview Weekend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  California and the Mid-Atlantic states. Details can be found here ... sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a little about what makes it unique, and will also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  working hard to prepare and plan for the weekend. If you're planning on coming to CPW and haven't registered yet, remember to log in to your MyMIT account and sign up by April 2nd. For those that haven't decided yet, come

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Waitlisted Students

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice and information here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had ... and all that certainly helped. There are just a few things I learned

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  beeping oh god the beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired and then it ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... Junior-Senior P/D/F, and they can't satisfy any Institute or departmental

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  to off-campus events about the humanities, and generally making sure ... greatly assisted by the MIT HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) course ... and deformed nutshell, is MIT's method of making sure that students take

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Anatomy of a Late Night There are some problems caffeine can't solve. But only a few.

  

  2 liters of Mountain Dew: $2.75 Mint Milanos: $3.39 Artichoke Spinach Hummus: $2.99 Wheat Thins: $2.29 Getting all your work done... priceless And now, I sleep, perchance to dream...

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  varies by high school location and personality, but Senior Year is not ... DO stuff. Whatever it is you like to do, get out there and get it done ... Figs? Is 2 enough? Here comes point #2, and it's gonna hit you hard: It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  taking your calls, receiving your emails, setting up interviews and writing ... mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and ... . There you will see the name of your EC and the best means to contact them

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  the interviewer will evaluate you in the process and what role the ... time had to do with what the ECs look for, what questions they ask and ... individual, and as a citizen of your world. You don’t make up for one part of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  could chemically analyze blood for components/diseases), and us ... , temperature) and translating for doctors (yay Spanish!) These blog entries may ... was no cell phone reception, and electricity was only intermittent at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  pronto) and I found a video of me at the beginning of last year that I ... a great look into the types of conversations that happen here and the ... go eat a ton of bacon and be completely miserable all night, even after

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why no blogs!? I'm busy, ok?

  

  Why no entries lately? Because MIT's Freshman Orientation is in full swing and everybody on campus is crazy busy. With what? Stuff like the East vs. West Water War from yesterday. Photos courtesy of our ever

  • by Snively '11
  • August 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  on all of this and so I'll begin with what's on the forefront of several peoples' minds: Blogging. Whenever I get a brilliant idea and just ... I just click "Entries" and go to the next page. It is fairly cool that

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... 's being in lab all the time for my UROP and working at the Senior Haus front desk. When I'm not busy dropping and shattering flasks full of buffers I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008