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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  December 3, 2007. France. I'm in France. But I just got done with Italy. And ... into a never-ending search for free wireless access. Today that came in the form of a McDonald's in Marseille, France. Seriously. As Samuel L

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should ... link to your "portfolio" - in other words, your current blog. This will ... if you're an upperclassman). Let us know which dorm you get temped in

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  Test ("SAT 1") or the ACT Plus Writing. In addition, we require two SAT Subject Tests ("SAT 2s"): one in math (Level 1 or Level 2) and one in ... 're best prepared and best suited. If you have taken more than one test in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... onto the floor below without awaking my roommate. I put my contacts in ... is leaving" hustle. "STOP!" yells the TSA officer. Everyone stops in

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of Wikipedia: The film depicts a future in which human beings, known as "Oms" (a ... in shape but ten times larger than humans, with blue skin, fanlike

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... found out online this year, which in my opinion is far less exciting than ... it since we had turned in our apps. (When I was YOUR age, we didn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  interested in playing on a varsity sports team at MIT, please contact the appropriate coach or fill out the recruiting form. If you are interested in our music community or our arts community, consider sending in some of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in ... cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the ... have never before been this prolific in a 9:00 AM lecture. Maybe I should

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... 's birthday, and I honestly had not had that much fun in a very long time. 5 ... interactive puzzle adventure that you do in teams where you go from room to room

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  Kalamazoo College. You may also be interested in the other stories from The ... visiting colleges in the Northeast last year, Andrew N. Lazar had the kind of ... morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV ... laugh) My primary mission is to start working on my new project in lab

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  glass coverslips (yes, we use some high-tech tools in modern cell biology), but I can't go home yet because I have 7.31 at 3:00 in the Whitehead ... rejoice about an incident that happened yesterday. So I had a test today in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several ... really. This is what our room looked like the morning we moved in from our ... other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... " in blatant stereotyping by creating this FAQ. Q. Are all MIT students ... . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... . Since I hadn't taken any lab classes or worked in any labs, I wrote about ... of cute, in an eager beaver sort of way.) The NIH website encouraged

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  , in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her ... before term started. We painted all day, slept in the lounge so that we ... back in place the next day. We didn't know that if primer dries on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  decided to stay here in Boston this summer which according to rumors is ... having a lot of fun, I'll also be interning at a consulting firm in Harvard Square and UROP-ing in the Biotechnology Process Engineering Center. The

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  ambassador. WISE stands for Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering, and it’s MIT’s fly-in program where rising high school seniors learn about ... they were called fly-ins and applied to several. Daymé heard about WISE

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020