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  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  experience was one of the most liberating, invigorating, and awe-inspiring times of my life. That's no exaggeration -- my four days at MIT changed my life more than I'd ever expect. From the myriad of future classmates I

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I ... references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential ... impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to ... coolest of cool tech companies, Google. "In the interview, they asked me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  asked, Is it bad if we can't understand what most of this actually ... lot of the experiments I do involve getting cells to take up foreign DNA or RNA, and I can do that using a variety of methods. 3. Danielle

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  So one of the questions that I am frequently asked my prospective ... topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right ... undergraduate population of approximately four thousand people from all walks of

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. Here are some of yesterday ... some of us not recieved our financial aid packages yet? I know I got all of my information in on time. Why did we not recieve our financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  really out of hand. So, here's what happened: some anonymous person made ... "convenient" that the amount of self-selectivity in the female applicant pool ... that I've even been slightly skeptical of that in the past. Anyway, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sick of grad school interviews. I've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in biology, and eat lots of free food and stay in free hotels and fly using

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  10 days of: Nausea :: Vomiting :: Diarrhea :: High Fever :: Dry cough ... and can address ANY potential route of virus transmission. For poster ... Screening: "The Name of the Disease" with introduction by Filmmakers Abhijit V

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  hosing. So I will post about what I did this week - a sort of "sample week in the life of an MIT student" thing. Psets/Projects -7.03 (Genetics ... ). Yeesh. E&M neurophysics problems and Matlab implementations of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and ... aurora borealis. Of course, I don't have any pictures of these things ... exciting pictures of an apple farm. Saturday morning was OUT OF CONTROL

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even ... Sam imitators and giant turkeys and enter a raffle to win a replica of ... , regardless of what internet speculation sites have said. Really! Ruth's just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT ... of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all-nighter," so I'm figure pretty well on my way there. Of course, I think one of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... videos a few minutes in length about each of the dorms so that the incoming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... screenings of older movies every Thursday night. This week, the free movie is ... . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... in from all corners of the world and sharing the many adventures post ... . I have lived in the 01239 zip code for almost half of my life. MY

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this ... , since my parents are overseas and i'm in boston, so most of these old ... started poking around the house. there were lots of goodies that were a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in ... ="alignright" width="225"] A top-down shot of the rainforest. I'd never held onto my ... highlight of my trip because we did so many awesome activities that day. Our

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023