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• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  last question first. No, you're not in trouble if your materials haven ... envelope may not go into the tracking system at the same time). In parallel ... we know that it took lots of hard work by the records office staff to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  that much of your schedule will revolve around free food. Chess club not ... involved. (I kid you not, a friend of mine actually kept a calendar of free ... money goes towards feeding children in Africa. Cool, right? We’re working

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  then it does all the work while we're off not being on the computer. Ok ... is not knowing what things looked like. I kept hearing about "Athena ... ." Not shown is a little blue clock which indicates a scheduled

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  ...cuddling with his laptop. I'm not kidding. Okay, now I'm going to make a huge ... . I'm not even kidding. See, back in the day, the admissions blogs were ... though, as I just mentioned, the old ones worked too. Listen, I never said

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this ... fired...). So it turns out I'm not the only one suffering. It seems like ... printers at MIT), actually used to work. But it's been broken for awhile, and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  , and again, I met a lot of really awesome and talented people - not just students, but professors and guest speakers whose work included writing ... MIT so different? The short answer, I think, is the people. Not only are

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ago about his work with the Grameen Foundation 3. Paul Polak (President ... ." A cute story, no? Surprisingly, Levitt did not re-tell it to Stephen ... much or as little of the $10 to the other student, whom he does not see

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  . I think wikis are brilliant creations- not just Wikipedia itself, but ... One of my favorite books ever is The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by ... 's not what it's about. It's about the oxymoron of the 21st century

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  red and shiny, and it works, and I need one because I live as far away ... in." "I am sliding it in." "Hold it so it looks like a U, not a horseshoe, and slide it in. There's a notch." "It's not sliding in." "You

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the ... time, I'm not taking any Course 2 classes, except I guess Thermodynamics ... computer does not agree with Baker's wireless internet. I brought my laptop

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  No, I was not abducted by aliens. I was abducted by field hockey ... ordering subs, which was not quite as disappointing as advertised. Then ... -Conner Rex events and worked a couple of shifts on the ambulance as well. Now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in ... a cramming fervor around spring (that may or may not have included ... post-exams until school ended (that may or may not have included watching

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  give back to their community," Sandoval said. But Flores said she's not ... always looking at extra work to improve her skills," he said. Flores and ... Flowers last year because they felt not enough emphasis was placed on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  Stuttgart TV tower, was kind of lame and is not worth your 4 вВђ, but did ... that there are race trucks as well as race cars? I did not. But I ... :45 AM. Well, dude, I'm in college; I'm not don't have the money to take

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  ), so I'm not going tomorrow. Which means that 7.27 (human disease) and 9 ... all "oh, I've been fortunate to work on a few diseases and discover some ... will hook you up for med school.) Not entirely related, but a picture of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  -thorasic surgeon like Dr. Burke or Chief of Surgery like Dr. Webber? (do NOT, I repeat, do NOT put yourself though being pre-med if you only want to hang ... .091 (Solid-State Chemistry), though it's not recommended because the 5.11-s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  the world, I guess. But it's not a weird thing to be a female scientist ... engineers at MIT, it's also not a weird thing to be a female engineer here ... can always get better, so let's work toward that end." Some women at

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

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  Madden high-heeled shoes that a) I have never worn, and b) I would not be ... anything that you do not like about MIT? Now, I know perfectly well that MIT is not in fact Utopia, and if I say, "Nope! I love everything about it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  -dollar bills and half dollars, then set out to explore some of the town. Not a ... . I also met with George, a sophomore with whom I'll be working on a Web ... not, many of us have not met each other yet -- MIT may be a veritable

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  snowiness -- it's not showing up well in the thumbnail.) Notice the cheerful ... attendance. In case it is confusing why I should care about this, I work in ... " major at MIT. Many premeds at MIT major in biology (although it's not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005