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• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  .. my mistake. I suck. Thanks to those who pointed it out to me) muscles ... this girl, and why does SHE think she can tell me to relax??" Uh, because ... dance show, which left me incredibly exhausted. But I'm back, and I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  What does August mean to you? For me it used to mean that school was ... means to me right now, and it's kind of weird, because I'm not used to ... of 2010 (which makes me a sophomore), and I'm Course VI (i

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  I was going to save this post for whenever my summer job had given me ... course, but do you really want me to elaborate? Anyway, working with the kids (all of whom moved in on Sunday) has left me no time for the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  and the fallout kept me pretty busy for the following couple of weeks (happily, the dust has settled quite a bit since then). Mid-May found me on ... my college reunion (I won't say which number, but you can stalk me on

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  yourself to new ideas. For me, personally, in the summer leading up to the ... hardest transitions for me were when I came to MIT, it would be the ... , etc. My brothers weren't coming to college with me. For the first time

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  believe me, this time I'm really gonna move it!). My pictures aren't quite ... that didn't stop me from eating like 47 free peking duck spring rolls. I ... visit me in Harrisburg over winter break, which is the second time that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any possibility that there might be some cons to the pros - to me, MIT was perfect ... friends at Stanford write me long, tormented emails about their food

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  was interviewing me sent me free room service including red and yellow ... , Spaghetti Warehouse. Me and my brothers. The little one on the far left is just my neighbor. Me and my mom. Return to hotel. LUXURY NUMBER TWO: A

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  to name me Ishmael, but somebody managed to talk her out of that one ... student organizations that have given me these incomparable dining ... an assortment of pastries. There was a sign there urging me to give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying ... do when I want a break? While academics were of utmost importance to me ... living options were important to me as well. I did not want to live on a

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  she'd just take me at my word because I was an admissions professional ... ! Silly of me to think that she would attend Cornell just because she was ... lunch) and her keeping me from getting work done; I secretly enjoyed her

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  the regulars have insisted on calling me Nance Nance Revolution (NNR ... great students who humbled me with their presence during Campus Preview ... minority students. I'd also like to thank my co-workers for allowing me to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  clearly failed. So, help me educate those who are unfortunate enough to not ... turns to the other and says, 'Wow, is it me or is it hot in hereпњљ' The ... point... but nothing stopped Mitra, Sam, me, and over a hundred other

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  weeks to visit UCLA's ACCESS biology program... and they haven't given me ... rate, they need to get to me soon -- I just checked the Boston-LA flight ... -intensive classes! No more Institute Labs! (Allow me also to take a teaching moment

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  something, but lately Webmail has been running incredibly slowly for me, so I ... summarily delete it. Not so. One hour later, Shyam '07 came up to me in the student center and jokingly informed me that he, along with the rest of 10

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  cellular, molecular, and developmental biology, so no ecology classes for me ... also reminds me of the time I tried to track my caffeine intake vs. sleep ... be possible for me to have four free hours per day. This is a pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  , I just find it to be a little bitter, which may make me a supertaster ... day for me. Not only that, they did it two days early. I was so excited ... to let me know. Or I could just smash the other one and buy some more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  weeks after I was born. I had a nanny who looked after me, even when my ... house so that she could be with me more. Would I have been positively ... their full time job. However, it upsets me to think that women my age

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  for me. A marathon has 26 miles. Half a year has 26 weeks. Coincidence ... salesman asked me if he could help. He had me walk barefoot for about a ... basically wanted me to run an entire workout in each pair of shoes. First, I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  (Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature). Let me just say that I really ... .716" is way too much for me. How do you even say that out loud? Isn't it ... /Terrascope Acceptance, but none of these apply to me, so you'll have to look

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005