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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  to have any until 8pm. I mean, it's issue night and he drew working people (the EIC and myself included) away from the issue! 8:00pm: And it ... the two of us and the fact that I'm still looking at the Mc

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  and Media Tod Machover has been getting quite a bit of exposure for his research in music and his involvement with Hyperscore which is a ... research center where faculty and students from MIT work on cool projects

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches ... broken by a series of buzzes and dings as our phones simultaneously ... all sampled the different flavors, and a few people took the half

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  from George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946. ----- So ... . Since then, the application has been revised, and although I still believe ... application looks like (it really doesn't look that different, ha) and I've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  something that you, your school, your parents, and your guidance counselor can ... admissions. And yes, your grades and test scores (especially your grades) are ... people who are academically curious and passionate, people who will bring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  , but that each and every applicant has been given a lifetime's worth of opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  1) that it didn't happen and 2) if it did happen, his intentions were completely innocent and simply limited to showing me how he could use water to open and close his door. Whether you believe him or not, I have to admit

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  , remember what it is that makes your heart sing, and keep doing that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  goes like this: "An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician were on ... sheep, at least one side of which is black." So today I came home and ... la la la I'm going to read Interpreter of Maladies and then The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  and none of us shower ever ME: beware ME: resistance is futile ... and i can't believe this roller coaster and wow ME: omg yeah i know ... : good FROSH: so i'm switching off between meat burgers and veggie burgers

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  little easier. Here goes: Transportation Subway map: http://mbta.com/schedules_and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  University of Maryland, College Park for a master’s degree, Morehouse College ... diploma, and Theodore Schor Middle School for fun (We had a ceremony, but no ... in college admissions at Rowan University in my home state of New

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  comic's readers to choose among MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and ... story... (brush up by checking out Matt's entry #1, entry #2, and entry ... 's Doonesbury: and see more at Doonesburg@Slate. The Tech covered this story in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  diploma with both areas of specialization written on it, and we don't do ... actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang ... between 15 and 20 percent of MIT students graduate with bachelors degrees in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  - 1900 AD), and finally the United States (~1900 AD - present). No one ... universities throughout history and from different parts of the world, as ... universities, later adopted by both the European and US systems. The next three

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Singapore-MIT Alliance?

  from universities, research institutes, and industries in Singapore and ... SMART is MIT's first, and to-date only, research center outside the United States. MIT faculty members have laboratories at SMART, mentor
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  year, we were sitting around and talking about double degreeing at MIT ... top of your General Institute Requirements AND fulfulling the ... ...you’re taking all of these kids from around the country and the world

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Institute and our admissions process, particularly for those far ... about my journey, and I thought I'd share some of them with you all to see ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  ; Theatre Building at California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Camphor ... : October 6, 6:00pm; California State University Chancellor's Office, 401 ... answer three of the most frequently asked questions here and now, so that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005