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• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  , since my last post about my time in California for LiveScribe, I've flown ... see MIT for the first time as a real place and not just a picture in a ... understand that you're a student here, that for the next few years this is the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Millennium Scholar Culture shock gives way to passion for learning By Jason Hidalgo June 6, 2009 Just moving to a new apartment can be tough for some ... young Garay wasn't quite ready for the culture shock he would experience

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  As I've said many a time, but will say again for new readers, I live in Burton-Conner. In Burton-Conner we have kitchens, kitchens for ... ." "H- how?" This is a critical time for both Sara and Yuki. This is when

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  which begin with my eternal apologies for their lateness, and the fact ... to-do list." This time, I haven't written for a week an a half ... for a group project. I was none too happy about it, I might add. I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business ... East Campus, proposed the project to Dean for Student Life Chris Colombo ... here.) As for me, I'm flippin' EXCITED! I don't care much for most

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  longed for something I had once enjoyed but could no longer possess. And I ... buddy Ben, you see, has had - for as long as I've known him - a slight ... , without even thinking, that I had found my going-away gift for Ben. Because

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  , but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for ... with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh ... to figure out what to do about that but for now I have broken metal

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even ... -doc and my primary mentor for the summer. After introducing me to a number

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  to head back home for a week ago and see my family (Boston is amazing ... what lab I'll be in: I'll be working in the Koch Institute for ... - and I'm sure he'll explain the finer details as we go along. As for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . Moreover, this set is rather rigidly defined for undergrads; it's an old ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... remember most about Cambridge. As for Biochemistry, I hope students in either

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most ... and alkynes in preparation for my upcoming midterms in 5.12 (organic ... differential systems for 18.03 (differential equations). Yes, I have two midterms

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  for you. Hot dog contests, Toy Fair, snowball fights, the Ig Nobels, and ... about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... focusing on the play, but the work is certainly there. For those of you who

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will show what materials we have processed for you. We should have the ... fax machine today, so they're prepared for the new documents! If we are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  ://dfa.mit.edu/stream/ ************************************************************************************* DONE. Hey guys, thanks a ton for helping. It was an intense push there ... fast as we could and checking the blogs for "answers from the prefrosh ... (that's being awake 57 of the last 60 hours). For those of you who come

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names ... pick through my junk mail. All senior year I got scholarship offers for ... is not that I myself am not the gender I've been assuming for the past

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  been my first choice for most of high school, but for a brief period of ... my old top choice came. I wavered for a moment. I knew at either of the ... convincing, further affirmation that MIT was really the right place for me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  's movie marathon was one such event I had to attend. Slated for viewing for ... butcher a weekly rate for both food and board. And finally: Star Trek 2 ... : If you had to pick your top five sci-fi movies for a marathon, what

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... for traveling. I was recently in Istanbul, somewhere I never thought I'd end up, especially while all my friends at MIT were preparing for finals

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend ... responsible for the first appearance of Smurfs. The Foreign Languages and ... for this small country! Willem De Graeve will discuss the history of

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  started for Isaac when he was born. ''We know we have the first two years ... years. My husband tells Isaac, 'Even if I have to eat beans for the whole ... college degree. Elizabeth Lozada said her family's pride for Isaac outweighs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006