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  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... helps in the process. Talking with your guidance counselor. We will ... School Report, which does include a letter that they write about you, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I have something to read next week in addition to furiously refreshing ... Belichick. In other admissions news, we just posted some old movies about MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages ... those people who does course 6 in no order whatsoever. Taking course 6 in ... in. Where am I, anyways? Second excuse: I started working for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  up with and entered in the Dell Social Innovation Competition. Earlier ... 's not common, at least in India, to find several NGOs to be working in the same field of interest, in the same area, with the same target population

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  44 Rhodes Scholars, and 7 in the last four years. Below, find Jenn ... , where she majors in biological engineering, music and theater arts. A ... conservatories, she has a perfect record at MIT in advanced courses across

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  A lot of 'lasts' happened this past week: - I turned in my last 5 ... doctor's office in Somerville and decided that it was the last time I was ... involved in me getting to the office. ~ And most importantly ~ - The first

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a carabiner on a nail, displayed on the ledge around my room, hidden in a desk drawer, or (in most cases) shoved into a bag which was subsequently shoved

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  , mirrors break when I look in them, but that is because I am so handsome that ... Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation ... currently pursuing a PhD in analytical biochemistry. Here she is on PBS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  there at the right time. (the people in line before me) Our tickets ... at the Gates scholars, who not only got to meet Bill Gates in a smaller, more personal setting but also got to sit directly in front of the stage

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... , it sounds like with the limited space in our largest auditorium (seats ... my stretched attempt at trying to tie in a completely unrelated, but

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  I don't make schedules or use planners. In fact, I don't even use ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... events in 10 different colors) and I realized that if I cross my eyes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  tarp in the dregs of Chinatown, torrents of rain flushing from the sky ... waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... 've bought cursory custard buns and huddled in a cafeteria-style bakery under a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  "Blowing up the alamo into pieces then hiding out in the mountains", I admire ... Labratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico this summer studying "inhomogeneity in ... 's nerd-speak for inconsistencies in high temperature superconductors. If

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  of a big deal- last I checked, 50% of men are in frats, and a little less than 25% of women are in sororities (April 26 through May 2, in case ... entirely different topic. What's most important, is that right there in the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of ... gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... founded in 1958 and began operations on October 1 of that year. Naturally ... people in MIT's legendary Course 16 program (Aero/Astro Department) would

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34 ... mentioned it before in her blog). Last spring I was the Membership Vice President, or more colloquially, the Mommy. As Mommy, I was in charge of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  Assistant Director for Minority Recruitment at MIT…..which is in Kendall ... rapper) In Piscataway New Jersey born and raised In the backyard is where ... Recruitment. I work in the MIT Office of Admissions and I am a graduate of the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn, meant waking up at 6:30 in the morning. Let me repeat that. Six-thirty in ... compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  ), cues Mission Impossible theme* 12:04 PM: Arrives in Chemistry exam ... end. It seemed like only yesterday when I stood in front of Lobby 7 with ... doesn't seem that far away from yesterday. Now, I just want to fill in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008