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• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  middle of term can be just like any other week, or they can be ridiculous ... instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds interesting rather than what's easiest. So, of course, since I exhibit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  . It's generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage with a healthy dose of comedy thrown in. So when I saw a headline about a ... .C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes supposedly defended the city of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here ... of your parents. While we appreciate that your parents want to help

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e ... Wednesday and I've had each of them once by now, so I'll give a quick rundown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of clothing, has now taken to paying an entourage of four Japanese girls to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he ... the index finger of his right hand. All 17 of his grandkids knew what ... 's spend this time examining the lesser-discussed problems of these surveys

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  power brokers. For some time now I've been intrigued by all forms of communication and their effect on society, in particular that of minority ... you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the law of sines! This is gonna be a tough puppy, but I think you guys can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  I will continue with the series of photo entries -- they take some time to put together, and I haven't been in front of a computer much. Hope all is well and enjoy these fleeting weeks of summer :-)

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ... typical nerds? A. Definitely not. Many of us are very atypical nerds. Q. No ... how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket ... office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and ... session on Bain & Company, a consulting firm. A lot of MIT graduates from

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story ... internship program since my sophomore year of high school. I had always wanted

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am ... give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party. Here's the ... , Daniel, Mitra, Allison, and Kevin in real life! There will be food (of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  of decisions was ages ago (due to the fact that last week felt so very long). Sometimes quiet is good. A lot of the snow melted this past weekend. I'm seeing the first signs of spring. What better way to welcome

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  Hi folks, Today was the 8th day in a row of selection committee. Everyone is super tired, but we'll all get a bit of a break soon and we ... me for the rest of the night... Seth and Summer are back together

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  record, I can't believe what an incredible group of people you are, both academically and personally. You are the best of the best. I wish we had enough room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  , who was one of MIT's Educational Counselors, or ECs. He had retired to ... MIT just before the onset of World War II, and his MIT, while having the ... 20-20 hindsight of an admissions officer, I suspect that interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write ... things you'd like to know more about (or see photos of, if you're unable to visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004