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  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  -year starter on the Bloodhound football team, has consistently ranked No. 3 in ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in Cambridge, Mass., just outside of Boston. Guillen, who will major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  actually not so fearsome anymore. It's kind of small, broken, and covered in ... architecture because the old architecture has bullet holes in it." This is not ... , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  lots of people at MIT interested in helping you make your college ... one here for you. At the moment, it is actually snowing in the 02139 ... the weekend. Smiles asked in Matt's last entry, "Hey, just wondering

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time. You see, I've been very ... with what's going on in the UA. And I'm in the Assassins' Guild's ten ... periodic lectures in room 35-225. This is a picture from our lecture on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... . The summer after my freshman year, I lived in Washington DC with Rose

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  in Cell. (For anyone who follows science journal impact factors, this ... five proteins that interact with the protein I'm interested in. I've been ... overexpression in COS cells. I'm currently drug-treating neurons which express my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  question...though you kinda took your time but all in all I really appreciate ... question. I believe that some time I received in the mail a postcard asking about varsity athletics. I filled it out and mailed it in on the day of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... TOEFL." You can definitely submit test scores in January for regular

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... West Side Story, released in 1961. I'm a huge West Side Story fan, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain ... euthanized sometime in the next few days. (Insert me pretending that I'm not actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a more thorough fashion than otherwise possible in a traditional advising

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people affected in the Gulf Coast in our minds and in our hearts. It's an emotional ... . Get in touch with us when the time is right for you and we'll be happy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  activities. In other words, Orientation is in full swing! This also means that ... considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... think- all the days are just running together in my head here) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  Back in Massachusetts! And Rush stuff is starting! *excited* There's building in the courtyard. I'll take pictures as soon as I replace the batteries in my camera. Rush - REX officially - is seriously one of the best

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays ... options remaining, I cluelessly applied to colleges. Being the first in my ... school in Cambridge, spending very little time at this school which I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  much as some people have in their first semester. Even my sister, who has ... kernels soaked in cold milk). Day 2 (Sunday) Veggie Galaxy (Brunch) Still ... drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly-In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly-In ... them envision themselves in these spaces. Instead of just telling you how

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic ... also a lot more annoying in the beginning because it felt like I was ... turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025