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• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  nineteen, and my friends took me out to dinner at the Border Café, followed by ice cream at Ben & Jerry's, and refused to let me pay. I ... misstep has taught me something valuable about myself. It hasn’t been easy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me ... going to be challenging for me, because we're already dealing with things ... reading. Which reminds me...I have more reading to do...

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  me (benjones at you-know-the-rest) by August 31st, 2007 and: Provide a ... seriously. To all of you who have already emailed me to express interest - please send me a supplemental email answering any of the above questions

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  xkcd! It also probably entails me falling over at one point until I ... aromatic molecules once again. Which reminds me - I officially declared ... answer in next entry, or just email me (iamjkim at mit dot edu). Now, for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  right? Hmmm? If you didn't meet me, then you probably met my mom, since ... my friends. (And to the Internet!) Don't you underestimate me - I did ... 'll give me something to listen to while studying for tomorrow's 5.12 exam!

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  . What you may not know is that Joanne is, like me, a die-hard Lost fan ... link to it in the comments, or by emailing me your file. My email address ... favorites on New Year, so get me your entries by midday on this Sunday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  been a little worried that taking something on P/D/F would discourage me ... would (theoretically) just let me skip the harder problem sets once in a ... hand. And so, this term is now officially 27% more freshman for me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front row asked me what else you could do in labs besides classes and UROP. At ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  about space exploration: "To me exploring space is just a natural ... . To me it, it just seems natural that we've looked around here and we ... out there farther. But that's just where we're going to go next. To me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  choices. Eventually I settled on Mechanical Engineering, and for me that ... . What particularly interests me about bioengineering is in the area of ... . For me, it was a good decision to get a handle on the purely mechanical

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  interesting question, one that took me about four years to figure out how to ... , I spoke to one doctor who gave me a lot of great information and ... who ultimately offered me jobs. In fact, I found my current job using

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  much for me. On the bright side, all of my worldly possessions are now sitting in the storage room, waiting for me to find in the fall. I gave ... to sleep soon. Waking up early is killing me!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  . Actually, a total of 18 of me and my friends ended up making the sojourn ... do so left me wondering the entire trip what was Chinotto. (A lot of ... . CAMPUS PREVIEW WEEKEND TOMORROW! Come find me!

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  , a snapshot of the dinner table (me, my mom, and my three younger brothers) Me: Did you burp? Brother 1: It wasn't me. (To Brother 2) Do you

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  Adam and me up to their family's condo at Sunday River in Maine (because ... , trust me, it was raining harder than it looked). My brother still had a blast, though. (I'll put a picture of me and my bro on later to embarrass

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  much larger and toothier than lab mice, and as such they kind of give me ... TA waves at me, says "Bye-bye!", and points to the board, on which is ... program (ranked #2 in USNWR). This gets a giant "hurray" from me.

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... , because the guy who measured it has his office two doors down from me." 5 ... negative.] Oh. Well, it happens to me." 9.30/9.301/7.98, Neural Plasticity

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  . I don't want you guys to go getting the wrong impression about me ... hour before exercise. This plate of cheese and crackers got me through ... with me here, but I don't really count grilled sandwiches from Alpine in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair ... marching band at my high school, which pretty much made me the anti ... nasty hits from the Mass Maritime guys -- don't get me started on them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e ... . Sorry, Sam's Mom, the Mediterranean complexion you gave me will go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005