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  A Visit to eBay

  

  . ------------------------------ Thanks to Tiffany for a great lunch and lovely tour of the eBay complex ... products.   I got lost somewhere between jewelry and sports. To pay homage to the product that made it famous, eBay has a case full of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  outline that might be colored in one day. It is even more wild to consider ... . I'm going to need all the luck I can get. ... have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  back across the bridge to get my haircut, and read half of a woodrow ... i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  in ways that are overliteralized to the point of meaninglessness. For ... methods to get small amounts of data from very large amounts, while my ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30 ... It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 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 / 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 / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  engineer, I went to the Boston Pops last Thursday night. Happy 125th anniversary to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)! This is how lovely Symphony ... Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• 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
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  we first came to MIT in August 2006, and will be once again when we ... noticing you went to MIT undergrad to a lady at a coat check. So getting your ... The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I request a fee waiver?

  We understand that paying college application fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for both domestic and international applicants, and you can request one in the Fee Waiver Request
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  equipment and vibrates to alert the athlete if their head accelerates in a ... lot about how to make a successful campaign, from contacting newspapers ... in the world and being in an environment where people are always

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ’s backyard). I'd like to share how I found myself working for this 1.5 year old ... peek. To summarize, we wrote a business plan detailing how we would start ... begin to assemble a design portfolio for use in job

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house ... 'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on ... ? Check. And a serenade? Check! Thanks to our secret admirers, the ... on. Right: Mari and Gisele watch the serenade. Also related to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting ... . Send email out to dorm: My dear countrymen, in light of the recent ... , it's a time for residents to get together, enjoy free food, live up to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  to get disappointed when reality doesn’t match up with your dreams. you ... started to crawl in and settle into your bones. but something's always held ... -fire email exchanges to make sure everything's in order, and then you're all

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  vital to this process. If you are interested in participating please respond to this e-mail with your name and your year. In the case of too many ... champion our cause, and to make changes in the department based on our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  Green Building in order to double-check the radio equipment as well as ... asked me if there was anything in particular I wanted him to take a photo ... - which you can see in the photo above. (My house is the third brownstone to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... sitting in a lecture and listening. To each his own.) Duke University

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006