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  The reading season begins

  

  ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  the rest of the admissions team. Not my favorite part of the job (I'm not the biggest fan of paper cuts) but it's rewarding in that it provides a bit of closure to an important part of the admissions cycle. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  Sort of. Do you remember the nursery rhyme about the London Bridge ... chainsaw magnate Robert McCulloch submitted the winning bid of $2 ... artist of the statue had never seen a lion before, so he used his pet dog

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  the Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605. Though their plot was ... the history of England, largely thanks to the catchy verses that were written to vilify them. To this very day, much of the United Kingdom

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  million feelings unseen. Of those, here are some: (1) Pride - The last time ... , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin ... can only bridge a bit of the distance! Many of the kids we've taught are

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.

  

  the better part of the fall. I apologize for this, and thanks to all of ... think make good matches to the undergraduate culture of MIT - academic ... Those of you who are savvy surfers of this site will note that our

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  academic year is completed, and as such, it's also the time of year that MIT ... contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this means recognizing the winners of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  represents the transition of the newly admitted class from the Admissions ... , once you have your MIT email address, you can be a part of the MIT ... a few more people joining the MIT Class of 2013 as we do plan to use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  This evening, as I sit reviewing some of the first early action applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... . This reminds me that we haven't officially announced that all of the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this ... Baker (one of our dorms), was uploaded to the internet. The instant ... admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  talked with Teesa '08 (Course 8: Physics) about Kiss of the Spider Woman ... Exchange. Professor Henderson taught us the proper pronounciation of the ... do you think? = ? This reminded me of the Student Mural Project at

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is earned at the end of sophomore year but premiered early during spring semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  fusion reactor. Then, of course, you build the perfect fusion reactor and ... , the more the very notion of “real work” became confused. In clubs I ... process of research, of venturing into the unknown. In math and physics

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say ... Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... it's considered the definitive biography of Franklin's life. Everyone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about ... surrounded by the trilling of mountain streams. By far the best hike I went on ... of Seattle's many mountains. The trail was absolutely magical

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of ... immensely this spring. More so than past semesters, not only because of the pandemic, but because of the way MIT administration has handled this pandemic

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups for some of the hacks, since the last time I went to the site. Well done, folks! For the curious, there are other sources of information about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... and plagued nightly by the severe lack of central heating, about thirty ... missing the fast pace of studies. Students also grew accustomed to the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three years to attend the graduations of all of the students that I admitted to that fine university. Here is the story of one of the very first students

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... . These are resident-produced videos that showcase the culture of each dorm. They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017