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  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... can illuminate and demystify the most mysterious and frightening of ... Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit for a week of vacation (YES!) - back on January 2. I hope you all have wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the Ivy ... of sustainable finances in the ongoing recession. As many of you know ... President of Yale and an influential economist. While I don't have time to go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  of my friends here in the office is Mikey Yang. Mikey is an MIT alumnus ... ! See if you can find them in the archives!) Mikey, as you can see from ... office, and whether or not it's Friday (any kind of Friday), you can always

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of ... . It has an extensive history (that I won’t go into but you can read ... of lugging boxes of t-shirts and [annotation note="i wasn't talking

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  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 ... projects that I can think of off the top of my head: pruning trees along the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year ... most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I ... presence. It'd be sort of like, I don't know, being a drummer, and going to a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the ... of! Going on vaca Adam and I are going to the Bahamas tomorrow and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  productivity packed in a few hours, I'm so glad I was running out of body wash. 1 ... of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams ... (arguably more important). Now that I'm awake I can hit snooze for an hour. 9:00am

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  , I just got out of class and ran home to get my laptop. So nothing ... "little black book" with lots of contacts in it. We've got to solve the ... "World of Comics." Right now I'd love to tell you the current research

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  Saturday, and I hope that I can give you a good idea of what it’s like to ... , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a ... in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told ... 're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  now i can rank in fun order![/caption] Figure out how many units you ... " /] Firehose is one of the most popular schedule planning tools at MIT. You can ... , where I carefully planned out various double major combinations, none of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  wrote for my HASS on Tuesday. Today is an awesome day. Hopefully I can ... that. Then maybe I can sleep tomorrow... ... Guess what! I passed my EMT practical exam! Yay! Now all I have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a ... , congratulations to the newest members of the Class of 2020. I'll be closing ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most ... pitches. So far as I can tell, people weren’t really forming words, just ... birthday cake was cut in none of these ways. With instruction from our

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  scrutinize....I can go on and on. The most enjoyable thing about HASS then, in ... to HASS-Ds, in providing more depth instead of breadth. You can ... that I can either concentrate in Economics (have to take another class in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  figure we can each only type fast enough to catch half of what he says, so ... speech. He's now giving a brief history lesson of MIT. In 1861 MIT was ... 're interested in. You can start a UROP as a freshman, first semester, by just

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... rare feedback on questions you raised in your video. I was one of the ... ’s project manager smiling (forced, I’m sure) in front of the bogus corner

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid ... I will skip, except to note that one of the proposed designs for the ... aren't Mexico and the theme of places that are Mexico. I just reread the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010