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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... waitlist until after the reply date of May 1. I wouldn't be surprised in this ... great choice to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in ... new poem and write a short essay response, which we read aloud in a ... , and between 45 min and an hour to write the response, usually, in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that ... interested enough in literature that they meet in their free time to discuss it

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder "What could possible be in that room?!" Some are pretty easy to figure ... probably means you shouldn't open those doors. But, in case you're a little

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  innovative art making communities in the country. There are over 60 student art ... that the arts take in 2008. The arts at MIT are everywhere and include ... for Visual Arts, artists-in-residence, the Center for Advanced Visual

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  MIT's main lecture hall is in building ten. It's also room 250 ... article came out in The Tech (MIT's newspaper) with the earth ... exciting and unexpected. Sitting in a row were five different types of chairs

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... back in Boston. Too bad - it turns out that Florida is a pretty cool

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor ... opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  buffalo. There are no buffalo in california as I write this entry though I ... asbestos and lead paint and people aren't allowed in it. The pedestrian in this picture is me. Sad little me, always walking everywhere

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  I really should be napping or something right now, since in the last ... , sang for two and a half hours in concert choir, freaked out over The ... they finally found out I've slept with a stuffed animal since I was in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  thought hey, if I can get lost in the middle of campus after 3 years of ... navigate the 77 Mass Ave construction in their cars? So, first of all, every ... just numbers. If there's a letter in front of your building number, that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  for rising juniors interested in helping people. In this entry, I will ... participated in it last summer. If I have forgotten any, please let me know ... Fellowships have a competitive advantage in the selection process sample issues

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  ! Unbelievable! And we could still be in it if we manage to beat Ghana. My ... . Germany is playing against Ecuador in the World Cup at 4 PM, so Dr. Kau ... left (in that respect, it was like most of my MIT problem sets last term

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a ... performance in audio and retrieve to us what you learn about Germany? It's just I am very curious." Kallie: "Ok, since you seem to be rather in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  something this summer (since I have an internship with Bayer in Germany ... to college in Boston, like heading to Wellesley or running the Boston Marathon or checking out the MFA. In fact, the only reason I even planned

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  me offhand her impressions of the graduate student culture in her ... information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  in front of you in 3.091 lecture was up all night rigging up clever ... questions in a separate entry. Read it all here. Number 2: If you haven ... hang in there and remember that it's not the end of the world. And now

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

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping ... hat acquisitions for others in my party. Very nearly one year ago, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  involved in that bus going over that cliff?? How?! And why isn't it next ... , considering that this show is always in danger of cancellation, I bet it ... tests like at MIT?" How did I know, right? I'm just so in tune with what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005