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  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  , someone stopped by to see me, or worse yet...it rained and why on earth ... stood there surrounding by the buildings hearing about the hacks of days gone by. So if you come to campus, I hope you'll take a tour. You won

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] ABOVE: "How We Make Someone Invisible, 1 ... Tavares Strachan. (Photo by Mark Linga) What I like about Tavares's work is ... spacesuit over the viewer's head, surrounded by black walls and preparatory

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  prefrosh that passed by dorm common rooms. Not to mention that CPW was the ... channeled our inner ninja. By this point, some of us had been awake for 45 ... to worry about work. This was by far the most exciting experience I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  ; Cognitive Sciences faculty at MIT. Here's an official biography, followed by an official photograph, followed by the Q&A: Nancy Kanwisher is the ... experiments. By the end of the course they can read a recent journal article

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  the way to Allston (about 40-50 minutes away by bike) to go to a Vegan ... liking it so much by the end, perhaps because I didn't really like the main guy... obnoxious guys usually change by the end of a series but for this

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  intimidated by the to-do list. With that said, I did not apply Early Action to ... , despite being bogged down by the academic intensity, I see more and more ... that may be, MIT or not. --- If you were denied - It’s true, by the very

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook ... continued to blog and had a few other entries by another student, I believe ... the forefront. By junior year, we had created a spiffy website and I had

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  recognize them as the closing act). I never ceased to be amazed by these guys ... ...a nice little taste of some performing arts groups at MIT. :) PANDORA By ... radio, but you can customize your own stations by telling it which songs

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  which will not be nearly as cool when blogged about after the fact. (By ... found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... by her room to say hi so we could finally meet in real life. We haven

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  that by the end of the night I was going to be forced to dance. Some ... conga line that tricked me by disbanding right as I was in the middle of ... ? maybe sad? I'm not sure). By the end I was tired, grabbed another cup of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  travel. Wednesday was 13 hours including traffic by bus, just me and my ... , Saturday night coming back was 10 hours by car, just me and my dad, 1 phantom ... . Also, that night I attended a physics faculty dinner hosted by the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for ... are 8 inches by 10 inches in size. For an illustration of this ... close-up of the camera: Photo taken by Graham Ramsay. And in case you

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  your hands, don't let the rest of the world pass you by. I'm sure it varies by high school location and personality, but Senior Year is not ... Wednesday the 12th, so plan on emailing or commenting your questions to me by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your ... stories by the art they leave behind. Cultural and social reasons aside, I ... .       Photographs by Ken Haggerty

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  . Two days later, I was deferred by MIT—no big deal, wasn't even ... -minded people. I thought I would be surrounded by geeks and nerds all the time, but I was really surprised by how normal most people are. Of course

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  's impossible to rank the events by awesome, I've ranked them chronologically: 11 ... "Intro to World Music". The class is taught by Professor Tang, who is an ... plenty of other cool companies there though, as illustrated by the tons of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  have a few one act plays to my name by the end of the semester. Also, the ... the end of that course number means. You've probably heard by now that ... interests that come into play in the field of sustainable development by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  hour by plane from Boston (granted, the plane ticket's kind of expensive) and around eight hours by bus. It's such a relaxing city that contrasts ... national television. Afterwards, President Ortega surprised us by shaking

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  ROP program created by Ellen & John Essigmann, housemasters of Simmons Hall. For ... , led by Ajarn Jutamaad Satayavivad. (Ajarn is the Thai equivalent of ... the lab’s knowledge of the mechanism by which GSK-3 promotes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  keynote speech after the awards ceremony - which was given by none other ... I think was given by the inestimable Matt McGann, but I'm not really ... pie, which - needless to say - was soon devoured by my ravenous brothers

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008