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  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the ... ) The chef at ZBT is wonderful, and I enjoy many of her creations -- flan ... of this sunk cost. I held the square very loosely and walked by the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the Ivy ... -years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the purposes of this conference, as the Ivies + Stanford + MIT. The Ivy

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

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  mine more exhausted than when I embarked. So I've spent most of the day ... editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes the introduction to E.L. Doctorow's novel City of God. I quote it for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  've collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of ... a week's worth to follow. At the conclusion of this series, I plan to answer all of the questions you've left in the comments.

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

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to ... certainly cannot substitute for the real experience of being on MIT's campus ... Institute of Technology. The context of my trip: New York City is a few hours

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I ... then lit on fire. the burn time of the prop varies depending on the size and shape of the wick, as well as the speed you’re spinning it at. Here

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech ... immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of ... 't remember many of the specifics. So I emailed Yan '12, who is also President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  the day of the concert - they bring in their own equipment, set it up ... sets of mics, mixers, and speakers so the safe bet was to acquire as much ... different locations would hear different mixes. then i had the idea of setting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  and the rest of the administration have in me," he told the MIT News ... vibrancy and energy with them, and I respect the importance of the role the ... senior associate director of admissions and director of the Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  's associated with it's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. But instead of sitting in ... the Berklee Performance Center, was a swirl of demographics all brought ... request of producer and musical director Shota Nakama, yelled the opening

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  can find a list of the topics that they made fun of (all in jest, of ... What happens when you pack hundreds of students armed with paper ... airplane. Then maybe two. Then sooner or later, people forego folding the

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their ... founding Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aaron Diamond

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  international students.   Today was the second and final day of ... hope you're listening!   Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is well known in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk, the room empty, and my roommates still gone. The glare of my laptop ... bottle. The water tasted strangely of swimming pool. Weird. All that was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new ... almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in. Today, we celebrate the power of democracy and the power of the human

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... weren't bad enough, IBD increases the risk of developing colon cancer and liver disease. Unfortunately, the cause of IBD is unknown, though

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  Description: Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study various macroeconomic ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth ... recitation fun fact: The entire first chapter of our textbook is devoted to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  couldn't help but think of Fenway Park and the Red Sox. Fenway, I think, is ... . A Red Sox game will be one of the highlights of my MIT 5 Year Reunion, coming up in just a few weeks (can you believe it?). The weekend of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing ... few flights of stairs) - you know, the usual. I'd say you've been ... ..., by Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America. The book goes through

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010