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  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now, with t-12(ish) hours until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  best to get a noncompliant five-year-old ready for school. Not easy, even ... went to a bookstore in an old white house and looked through old Indigo ... cream too, and called out to two other people in the café just to ask if

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is ... of life in three parts: to be with each other. To work towards a better ... scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  to me. 2) I was serious about getting an internship.   See ... brushed it right back off thinking to myself "Oh, no one get internships ... was expected of me to get it. That made me feel invigorated enough to go

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  you have to do in a week, and you sort of want to die inside. :) For ... , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  getting stopped in the halls. It's awesome, but I'm starting to lose my ... hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... least there's no more sleet. 6:05pm: I get a chance to upload some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit ... wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with ... LImelight. (I challenge any other admissions office to a Karaoke competition

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  -100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... recounted how he had been approached about participating in the debate and how ... , the hundreds of people in attendance were permitted to vote on the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement ... Commencement speakers, with a link to their speech: 2004, Elias Zerhouni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  juncture. I'm hesitant to post this because I don't want to get your hopes up ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for ... blog comments about it in the last month, so I figured it was a hot topic

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to build community, to have fun, to stay in shape. I could not imagine MIT ... 'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case ... just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to ... site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  need to check in for my flight home in six hours. My one-week-old brass ... how quickly these past two years have flown by... Around this time last ... shared a few pictures with you guys in her entry, but I'm adding a few of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  pursue a career in advertising, then you might be able to find someplace ... to feel like some "other" major (I'm in such a major!). That said, the ... hands on work or theoretical studies? You'll want to figure out how MIT

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  applying to. They didn't really have anything in common except for being ... their schools. Or, sit in the cafeteria and listen to people ... Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  excitement and keep music alive at MIT! I hope to see some of you in MITSO next ... violinist in MITSO, it was quite an interesting experience unlike any other ... composed symphony. How often does an opportunity like that come around?! The

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  program (ranked #2 in USNWR). This gets a giant "hurray" from me. ... It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to glass coverslips (yes, we use some high-tech tools in modern cell biology

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

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  heuristic get to you. MIT fraternities are very different from fraternities in ... 've gone through Rush enough to get a bid, you probably already know ... I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011