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  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox ... . What if they've already reached their (nonexistent) quota of black

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops ... the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... , because it is specifically targeted at students within the Department of

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... scared right now. Be excited. Orientation is one of the craziest weeks you'll experience at MIT, seriously. You'll be rushing around, meeting tons of new

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of ... hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of ... the ones), intimidates the part of my brain that has suffered through

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... different halves of the dorm. The numbers refer to the floor number. I live on Conner 2 (second floor, Conner side). Each of the floors has its own very

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  it already?) with lots of information about...things...To be honest, I ... much of it! ...Anyway. I had fellow Senior House resident Milena write an entry for you guys on one of many summer opportunities for you guys

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  We’re all aware of climate change and the impact that it will have on ... Vehicle Team, and the Solar Decathlon (read more in the Spring 2007 issue of ... got national recognition when they won the grand prize of $25,000 in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from ... . It sounds like all kinds of amazing. ^_^ P.S. Devin wants you to update your blog." So at the request of two of the most awesome high

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  nothing short of incredible, so I jumped at the opportunity. Before I knew it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox ... of Student Life Benedict and Dean of Undergraduate Education Hastings

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... minute nap on one of the couches down there (during which time I dreamed about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... early action, 13% more than last year. We admitted 390 students, or 11% of the applicants. A similar number of students were denied, while those

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

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 hours, 4 major cities, and over 4,000 miles of amazingly exhausting travel, there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... , and kept the rain off of me pretty well, although the ravages of time were becoming apparent after three years of use. But anyway, I left it on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common, but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the ... a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  will get made over by the Fab Five as part of their new season in Las Vegas (see photo of Ed "before," with Carson Kressley at right). The ... with reality television. Some others: Another of my dormmates, Ankur

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The name of the "avocado" comes from the Spanish ... whatnot. Let me tell you the story of when I got my admissions decision ... and Sam's Mom told me that it was coming the week of the 22nd. I think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 Laptop. [news story] This is one of the most inspirational projects I've ever seen. It makes me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  It's that time of the year again -- MIT's Undergraduate Research ... research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of research: 1. News: Summaries of breakthroughs at MIT and beyond. -Some MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  On the topic of free benefits for MIT students... Tonight (Wednesday) on campus, there's a free sneak preview of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride ... of the film I Heart Huckabees, and also listed some other sneaks that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  everything done, and we got a great group of freshmen in the entry, as well as a big group of new cheer recruits, but I am just thankful that today is a day completely free from obligations. So today I (like many of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005