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• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  that, as an admissions committee we do believe strongly in admitting a ... other groups. But please do not misunderstand what "affirmative action

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... the support systems available to her. In doing so she has come to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  me, shall we say.) We haven’t done much acting per se, but we do all ... ’m actually doing something productive and cohesive with my extra electives

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  through high school without doing any work, then I got to my first 8.01 test ... do hundreds of pages of practice problems in preparation for the next

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  . 10:39 PM: Return to Next, where roommate is doing p-sets. 10:40 PM: Consider doing psets. 10:41 PM: Facebook.

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  Bach in class on Monday, and he said we could do something really easy if ... : Concert Choir: Same as it ever was, same as it ever was. We're doing Carmina

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  it like a real American would do (Cheez-Its are even better, but you ... Alpine Bagel (do they even still exist?) or going to some other dorm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ship it all the way across the country. But we do, so I started packing a ... , especially since I haven't been doing any of that (thinking, that is) for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And yet I bring you this bonus blog entry. Do I love you, or do I love you? Questions from last entry will be answered when I get back to Beantown. Well

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus ... demonstration of Civil War medicine. He said that he used to do it with an actual

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  liederhosen, many of whom were even playing oom-pa-pa music on tubas. Do people ... challenging classes that are offered at your school and do as well as you can in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  's like that at most colleges. However, I do know people who sing more ... thirty-four seconds to walk down the Infinite Cooridor when I'm doing the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  him or her is the moment that you have made you voice irrelevant. Do ... you uncle fix the brakes on your car; or let your uncle do your taxes

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  lab. It's nice to know I don't do it for the tangible rewards. :) MIT ... internship, you can make even more than that -- Adam gets paid twice what I do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  supposed to vote on slogans advertising a party thrown by Hillel, but I do ... do it. Later he asked his mother to show him how to use a lighter. She

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  departments do, if student numbers exceeded the available teaching space? Our lecture halls are already the cause of the few lotteries we do have to face

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  Keoghan doing a book signing ten minutes away at the Cambridgeside Galleria ... conversations. Ringer: "What do you usually play? Offense or defense?" Me: "Uh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  as it once seemed. Even if you do already have a cell phone, figure ... is horrendous for Boston students. I think. ...and I do live by the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  they're meant to be doing. There are certain mistakes in the approach to ... least consider doing so. Realize that you don't have to settle for "okay

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  I had a hard time following the plot. This time, the company was doing ... nothing else to do, we capped off the evening by strolling into the nearby

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005