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  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea ... meet everyone who got in and hear about their stories about how they ... guys all rock in one way or another. Sorry to those of you who couldn

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks ... . But seriously, guys, everything's really up in the air right now. I ... found me my summer internship in Germany last summer. It's kind of too

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  Earlier this week, I attended an event in Washington DC where I got ... consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to ... little like falling in love: one trip to the campus and they "just knew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  most people are quick to say that they're just fine. In fact, if there's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a ... precisely what one should never do in situations like these and ignored it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  , the answer is inevitably “In lab.” My class schedule serves to justify ... systems are actually all around you (and even in you! For example, your ... the concepts presented in lecture. Incidentally, Laura is also taking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  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 ... vision-based autonomous robotics class/competition that is in its seventh

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  preparing in the summer hols. I am doing AP Calculus BC and AP Physics C ... classes. Keep in mind that this is only current for the Class of '10, so the ... Daniel mentioned, a lot of majors knock off a couple of requirements in one

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case ... collaborate. Now, at the new Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., he's trying to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  accomplishment that experts in the field recognize as significant and has the ... wonderful things for education in this country. While I was in Reno, I also ... , Dahlia Eng, Dr. Al Czerwinski, and David Feldman. If you live in Sacramento

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... 'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the

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

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who works as a director for a rather large freight railroad in the West. It ... -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and ... when you were in kindergarten, and the first day of class your mother ... is the only class in which I'm not starting at the very bottom, since I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  . Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... they took anyone's picture and name and stuck it in seamlessly. (The ... the ridiculous amounts of free food I got this week. In that particular

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Technology in the fall. Eletha Flores' dream always was to attend the ... Award in Engineering and Math from the Hispanic Heritage Youth Foundation in its District regional competition. "I always wanted to go to MIT

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

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to ... 45 minutes in length and are conducted by admissions officers (I do one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  Zelda. In the end, about the coolest thing we saw in Bonn was Beethoven ... reenactor like that one episode of Amazing Race 4 in Vienna. I took this ... behind Germany time anyway. But Germany was in the semifinals on July 4th

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of ... want a small fridge in your room. Hold off on getting this until you find ... your permanent room assignment. If you aren't staying in an air

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... generally disdain the reporting about MIT in the Boston Globe, I did like the turn of phrase used in an article last winter -- that MIT undergrads are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I ... in fundamental discoveries on just about any disease you can shake a ... Housman's had his hand in it. And the cool thing is that this distinguished

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006