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Blog / MIT Life
A Story Oh goody!
realized that in order to burn cereal Sara must have been a spectacularly bad ... in Burton-Conner. In Burton-Conner we have kitchens, kitchens for ... her from giant fish fame. She also doesn't cook. In fact, I think she -
Blog / Events
A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)
semester, a different hall bands together to provide some sort of creative ... called the "Bring the Feast" FAC. I was unable to attend the event ... ? The career fair is tomorrow, so we had to do it on Thursday. Did we all -
Blog / Events
Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours
was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a ... it all in one sitting, while documenting it with pictures / videos and posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the -
Blog / Academics & Research
And term starts again…
couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'll entertain you with a list of my ... topics in discrete applied mathematics including sorting algorithms ... programming, game theory. My comments: The description sounded fun. I want to -
Blog / Hacks
Hacks and meta-hacks
of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the Guide to Facilities for Individuals with Disabilities campus map psoted on the wall. You can't really see anything in that picture. But what my -
Blog / MIT Life
What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!
week. The rules are simple, what I post needs to be something that you ... . Amazing Spider-Man 2 I was lucky enough to see this movie on April 12th(I realize this was a few weeks ago but it's still making me happy), thanks to -
Blog / Admissions
What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.
the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In ... /or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after ... to look at it that way), going until 6am Friday. Speaker building -
Blog / MIT Life
Train(wreck) of Thought
've got something pretty cool in store, so don't give up hope just yet. :-) BUT I had to share a particular incident with you today as I was walking ... *")----->O/H---->OH--->Two components in liquid rocket fuel--->EXPLOSIVE action. I can almost -
Blog / Events
I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!
are just beginning. Oddly enough, I'm in lab, but later this afternoon, I will be participating in my first ever VEGETARIAN BARBECUE. It really sounds like an oxymoron to me, but hey, don't knock it til you try -
Blog / Admissions
Upcoming non-MIT deadlines Other forthcoming deadlines.
's deadlines are almost certainly different. So many deadlines! It's easy to ... what's out there. In that spirit, here are some deadline for some programs that MIT applicants are often interested in: Gates Millennium -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.
: schedule] 800+ students & alums came to Kresge Auditorium last night to ... her SATs. In the fictional world of "The OC," colleges might have quotas ... quoted in a recent Bloomberg News article on stress & college -
Blog / Events
Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute
. Pie Kits from Clover To celebrate all the hard work done by the whole ... kit from Clover Food Lab to make cranberry pies. [carousel image1 ... Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 4
Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... way back to the selection room, we ran into Rob (another MIT '09), who ... them in one photo!): After that random encounter, our subcommittee -
Blog / About Decisions
Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.
cousin, and my best friend all made it in, so it was my turn to follow suit ... , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... learned how to write about myself, how to create the froyo flavor that -
Blog / Miscellaneous
MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus
to explain herself [in the form of a 200 character apology tweet ... At MIT, a lot of groups use Slack to stay connected. It's like a big ... put photos of other people in the group whenever you see them in the -
Blog / MIT Life
MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.
media, on giving laptop computers to the poorest children in the most ... ) sent out an email with a link to a retweet by @cmsw_mit of a tweet by @MITListCenter of a link to an article on SPECTRVM which linked to Stephen -
Blog / Hacks
Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.
to discuss the book, email me. And in commemoration of Book 7, there ... Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I figured it would be cool to take -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.
design process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their ... of Technology Class Ring dates back to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham -
Blog / Admissions
Class of 2009 Numbers
In a recent post, I wrote, "Our yield was even higher than we ... admitted 1495 of those students, making this the most selective year ever in ... highest overall yield (the percentage of admitted students who decide to
