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  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... . In fact, last year the MIT pistol team won the National Championships ... straight from the bus into the range, which is, unlike ours, housed in a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick ... one. In four years, you will be in a completely different situation. As ... non-profit organization (Teach for America, Peace Corps), work in a lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great ... system. (I introduced this to you sometime in February.) Our effort is ... in these things. RATP headquarters (Maison de la RATP/House of RATP

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since ... malfunction in our darn WINDSHIELD WIPERS. I was stuck in an auto-repair shop in ... , TechCash is awesome, and we had $20.11 in honor of our 2011 class! (Later

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the world ... friends and family, perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a ... or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  at pool edge and contemplate reflection in water. Wondered why awake again, since no class until 12. 10:01 AM: Dive in. Am definitely awake ... class so big that people sit in the aisles.. of 10-250 (note: chairs in 10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... LSC (MIT's student-run 'movie theater' in one of the big lecture halls ... both classes in my senior year of high school and let's just say that my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Laverde's Market, nestled in the MIT student center ... sullen students recognize each other in line at La Verde's. Tiredly, the ... weird transition out of high school, actually. In my high school, among

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  mood has done a total 180 since then, so I feel I'm justified in talking ... school interviewing in biology gives some insight into the admissions ... ?) So if you come to MIT next year or in the next few years, your TA might

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

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  So it's snowed something like 15 inches in Cambridge in the past 14 ... snowed at all. And now all these southern California kids are in Boston ... have been playing out in the snow all day on Briggs Field, which is the

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

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  ! How cool is that? However, not every single UROP in the history of MIT ... had one in the summer of 2004 I had a UROP with a professor in the ... ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the ... -cut Pete '01, who lived in New House. According to him, they were nice people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced around 4:00pm and eating will commence. $500 in prize money will be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  If you commented any questions in the past few weeks or so, I'm going ... had to comment on Schrock, even though I was already scooped in ... ), or, in our case, a living group (Conner 2!). Now, I've played three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  activities and especially in-house rush (when Macgregor freshmen pick entries ... , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... Prize in 1987 for his discoveries regarding how the body generates its

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  since I started this awful, misguided experiment in temporary ... picnic in Boston Common. Last year, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company ... closely in 21L.009 Shakespeare my Freshman year, so I was I excited to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  much Law and Order this summer?) In my various unofficial capacities as ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... psyched about brains. When I was in 8th grade, my mom brought home a copy of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  song about femicide in Mexico.  Here are two things I weighed heavily: Audience: There were points in my recovery where a post like this could have ... alone in my trauma; I don’t want others to feel that way. Though I know

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022