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  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have ... there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I ... to the effect of I know every area code in Massachusetts and that is

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  upsurge in handmade apparel. I can't deny I am included in that group, with ... bed in a case that smells like mildew. Luckily for fashion, not everyone keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  pretty awesome. In fact, MIT has one of the best political science programs ... was held entirely in Spanish, so it was pretty advanced, but I enjoyed ... making nouns and adjectives agree in number and gender. Plus, Italian and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  with AP credits in Biology, Physics, and Calculus. This is by no means the norm. Keep in mind that first semester freshman year is on pass/ no ... because I was lazy, but because I wasn’t interested enough in the subject to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers ... summary of the article- lots of things happened in 2006, but one of the ... . Seriously. I've been writing some form of a blog since I was in the 8th grade

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  Bryan's fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party. And as soon as I walked in the ... much time in Photoshop because I didn't want to be programming in Scheme ... . Luckily, I managed to jot down home of the highlights: How to sleep in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in ... and great, Neha had gotten in! But what about the two of us? What was

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... before 11AM. Go ahead. Start throwing things at me while I rub it in. I ... the part where it’s currently 77 degrees in South Florida, while here it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... Institute (or how it was thirty years ago; in our internet age you might know ... discovery (assisted of course by the double major you'll finish in three years

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  holding a fantastic event TODAY in our Sukkah on the Kresge Oval. We'll be decorating the Sukkah in the most fantastic of ways (think Pimp My Ride meets the MIT Sukkah) and enjoying Pizza (in the Hut). Come by and join us, we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Burton-Conner, if you keep leaving your suite messy ... seven favorite words in the English language. In order, they are: 1 ... live in squalor." My heart beat a little bit faster as everyone else

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... situation anyone in our family encounters. 1. Get psyched. 2. Stay with it. 3 ... people seem to think that the most important thing they'll learn in college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  back tight, lives with her mother in the same apartment where she grew up, in the Bernard Baruch housing projects on the Lower East Side. What ... around her neck - lost herself in books. Her mother was rarely home and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  many people "in real life" for the first time. Please come say hi! Here's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold ... have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9 ... lived in Burton-Conner (home of many current bloggers), and one who lived in Baker... nobody from my home, though. Today I was home and doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  scientific development. Other countries are becoming equally competititive in ... student vs. what they get paid in investment banking, there's no doubt that ... , is a senior majoring in chemistry at Princeton, but when recruiters

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  , metapuzzles, and some data about teams involved in the hunt. One of my absolute ... of the most annoying (and therefore most rewarding) puzzles in the hunt ... most fun: Denial. Keep in mind that this is just a sampling. I slept a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  their application. In light of this, I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe ... own applications. Once upon a time and long ago... ...in mid ... early decision or early action to a lot of really awesome schools. So in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... know this. I confirmed as of this evening (Wednesday) that admits in at ... deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been working as Burton-Conner's summer desk captain. Unlike being a deskworker in ... payoff being that you get free summer housing plus a stipend in exchange

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005