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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... some of you may want to look into, what with summer often involving large

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  So here's the story. Each year I allow myself to faithfully follow ... , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on ... wife for this. I vowed never to watch this show, ever. But my wife's a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today, 300 companies are on campus trying to recruit MIT students to come work for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do any good to pretend like it's not there and allow misinformation to run rampant. The clincher was when a friend sent me a link to a post about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home ... I subject my body to can be justified by the increase in ... painful process known as "moving out." At MIT, we are lucky enough to have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  mom to come Tuesday night and bring me home Wednesday morning. Yeah ... 't need to get ready tomorrow morning. So what final details of my freshman ... webmistress, as Sam likes to say). I'm pretty excited about this, because web

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  adult swim. Parents, Welcome back to the Nance Effect! Hopefully you ... color to an audience of color. With that said, I believe that the vast majority of my writings are applicable to the masses. Everyone is welcome

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I ... knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical ... figure. Not only did we have to figure out who the person was, but also who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... -fi, thriller, satire aficionado but I'm open to any suggestions. Now to the book ... classical engineering as applied to biological and physiological phenomena

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  Most universities aim to attract well-rounded individuals with varied ... ) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity of research opportunities on campus, he was able to cross paths with Dr

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once you get to college. =) Also, Sam asked: "I just wanted to know how MIT handles research with freshman. Do they get to use the same facilities as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  for me while we sampled some AppleBake treats: I'm ashamed to say that ... eating to be done once I woke up, though! Right after hearing the AppleBake results, the Conner 2 freshmen rushed back up to our floor to work on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the Bio ... up in 2003 and is home to about 700 scientists. Ever seen those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because ... promise that we don't require new members to have prior cheerleading ... through our cheers a few times and warming up stunts, we went to the Z

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a ... prevention is always the best cure. "We have to learn that things have to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  Well now, this is a good way to start a blog entry. Megan '08, nine people I don't really know and I went down to Carson Beach today and then ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice, but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... truly matters to you, no matter how nontraditional it may seem + take

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  my summer vacation. DID YOU KNOW? Portland, ME was once home to the world's tallest building. After breakfast, we took a drive down to Old Port, which seemed to be both old and a port (compare to peanut

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005