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• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  automatic advantage in admissions by being female. I'm not kidding you. It's true. Kunda Kapaipi asks: Hey. I'm a Zambian(southern Africa) and in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  're sticking to it. ARGH, I'm behind on blogging! I hate that! Do you want to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in earnest to think about where to apply for college. For some of you it means ... socialscenarios. Do you offer the academic program that I'm interested in? What

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 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.

  

  you don't like tofu, teriyaki chicken also rocks. And some days when I'm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  meanings, the negative one is usually inferred when someone uses it. I'm glad ... other two are. I'm old. Sorry. Seal shank Look for a bunch of small

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

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  staying there until Monday evening. Vacation! I'm super-excited. I haven ... -biology majors take 7.013 than 7.012, although I'm not sure why. 7.014 is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  night in spring 2005), and a lot of times in between. I guess I'm a little ... coming to Boston. The concert was *amazing*. That's really all I'm going

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  required me to take a CI-M class, I opted to keep afternoons free for a 20

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  groups. (Right, Phil?) What is the M.Eng. Thesis? The thesis requirement ... experimental work of a technical nature. M.Eng. theses normally involve one or

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  conditioning and dining hall in a dorm? i'm from wisconsin and seeing that most ... you don't bring one, I'm sure somebody will have, and you can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  movies that I love and some that I always swear to rent next time I'm at ... , you'll never know for sure). Look, I'm not saying that the person

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  two summers (I'm originally from Maryland) while I was in high school ... immediately became an editor. Now I'm in charge of the Fall 2006 issue and I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  country?" I'm not sure. If your interview has been waived (you'll see this ... admissions officers might think I'm lying or merely giving them an answer they

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  4.0 scale or whatever is utterly irrelevant. I'm opposed to class rank ... statistics were pretty good, but I'm sure a lot of you have/had better: GPA: 3

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  list AP courses where I'm not actually taking an AP course (since my high ... 183 words. I'm sure I could drop like 10-20 words from each, but that ... School which is the more local school, right down the road. I'm having

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I'm now answering comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in ... be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  cooling hot metal. Sorry to bother you with such a question, but I'm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  ). Though I can't see myself, I'm sure I'm not very good, but I don't care

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  things that are often made. I'm using this entry to warn you against a few ... governning bodies. What I'm trying to say is, when you come to campus, treat

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

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  University, because I'm from the Columbus, Ohio, area and knew I could probably ... coast schools anyway. Good news: I aced the PSAT (80V, 74M, 80W) and got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005