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  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  foremost because she is a woman. No no no no no no no no! I wholeheartedly ... to make is that Susan Hockfield was the best candidate by a landslide ... 'd reserved a low-profile Taurus or somesuch. After hitting it off with the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  , yes, there is a disappointingly low admit rate. Believe me, meeting all ... "be yourself" is not a trick just to lower your guard, uncover your ... decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  is a school he had heard of before coming to this country," Mr. Taylor ... -bound students. "This achievement is a tribute to their pursuit of educational ... . Actor James Woods came close in 1969 but dropped out a semester before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  with a B-! And since freshman year is pass/no record, I was in paradise ... of class a week... so since the deadline for our project is coming up ... exercising much at all... treadmills work wonders, it would be a dream to run

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  hosted a community picnic to celebrate The Howard Dining Hall, which is on ... I like eating. I like eating a lot. By which I mean both that I ... was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is ... is the most senior of the current student bloggers? [answer at the end of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  assignments. The class as a whole is given a theme (last year the theme was ... you didn't notice yet, the theme here is PRESENTATION. 2.009 is a CI ... into a beautiful chick, or to fried chicken, depending on how hard you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at ... students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The event officially began

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  . Like, flying robots. Ocean Engineering is getting ready for a robotics ... . How supportive are MIT faculty in encouraging students' ideas? What research opportunities are available? In preparation for a visit program, I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  it on, considering that my room heater is consuming as much energy ... . QED: My own mother thinks that I have a stupendously boring life. On the contrary, I've had a stupendously excellent weekend while my sheets

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  second test wasn't much better (9/20) but was within a point of average ... productive. 12 hours is a surprisingly useful chunk of time. NEVER do it, it ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  't beat that.) Dirty Hands is, first and foremost, a political drama about ... . Essentially, the play is a framed narrative where Hugo, the idealistic assassin ... , the audience delves deeper and deeper into Hugo's mind (which is not a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  racism was classism. This shit is not just about race. It's about a class ... Center is a six-minute ride from my house. There is a "regular roaming ... This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  been away visiting relatives. This is the first year [annotation note="a ... (passionfruit orange guava). i had to look up what POG stood for. POG is also a ... Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  like someone asking, "So, how's the oxygen situation in Cambridge? Is ... . The fact that MIT is a science and engineering school, and even ... was asked several times at my grad school interviews how the environment

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  " -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish ... *except* what you'd expect from a cat. Dolphin is his favorite, with this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  . She was also this year's virgin. In this picture, she is wearing a pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the ... previous entry that a little over a week ago on 5th East we had one of our

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  committees, different cast of characters. This is a very important process, the ... A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  I discovered shortly after completing this blog entry that, much like a newly-bought laptop, it has already been rendered obsolete. Well, I'm not writing another entry. Ha! So, let's turn this into a learning

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  with a company I am CRAZY about! Stroud Consulting is a relatively new ... recently, we flew through a cloud-bank and I was able to take the crazy picture above. Now, I know that it was really a trick having to do with

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009