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  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  there at the right time. (the people in line before me) Our tickets ... at the Gates scholars, who not only got to meet Bill Gates in a smaller, more personal setting but also got to sit directly in front of the stage

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... , it sounds like with the limited space in our largest auditorium (seats ... my stretched attempt at trying to tie in a completely unrelated, but

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  I don't make schedules or use planners. In fact, I don't even use ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... events in 10 different colors) and I realized that if I cross my eyes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  "Blowing up the alamo into pieces then hiding out in the mountains", I admire ... Labratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico this summer studying "inhomogeneity in ... 's nerd-speak for inconsistencies in high temperature superconductors. If

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  of a big deal- last I checked, 50% of men are in frats, and a little less than 25% of women are in sororities (April 26 through May 2, in case ... entirely different topic. What's most important, is that right there in the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... founded in 1958 and began operations on October 1 of that year. Naturally ... people in MIT's legendary Course 16 program (Aero/Astro Department) would

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34 ... mentioned it before in her blog). Last spring I was the Membership Vice President, or more colloquially, the Mommy. As Mommy, I was in charge of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  Assistant Director for Minority Recruitment at MIT…..which is in Kendall ... rapper) In Piscataway New Jersey born and raised In the backyard is where ... Recruitment. I work in the MIT Office of Admissions and I am a graduate of the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn, meant waking up at 6:30 in the morning. Let me repeat that. Six-thirty in ... compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  ), cues Mission Impossible theme* 12:04 PM: Arrives in Chemistry exam ... end. It seemed like only yesterday when I stood in front of Lobby 7 with ... doesn't seem that far away from yesterday. Now, I just want to fill in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... alone someone who is basically in charge of protecting the health of our ... Gerberding’s experience in medicine and public health and that she was named

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... opportunities in classes and in clubs. I am taking SP.747-Creative Imaging, a ... assignment was to bring in photos and talk about why we liked/disliked them. I

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  ) spent this evening at MIT. Though she was born in London and raised in Rhode Island, Lahiri spent some of her childhood in Boston and ... and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100 ... . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... it doesn't count because my birthday is in December, and I have already

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  in eighth grade my class went to the local high school to see a ... . It was then that I decided I wanted to do theater in high school. So ... a very strong theatrical arts program that anyone could take part in

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  watched the show from first airing you'd notice how she didn't fit in and ... her infractions and all in real life. Okay, no way, Ana Lucia rocked ... in Resident Evil. Oh man she was awesome in Resident Evil. Anyway, yeah

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... everyone - especially those in the MIT community (and that includes you ... as an undergraduate. After four years in Course 2, and twenty years in

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I ... 're in a major for which it's required. Also, because they're computer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of ... people who lists all the colleges they got into in their AIM profile. (As ... . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at ... perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an ... you've all been picturing it in your heads all summer and are just dying

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006