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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  pride that we have (p-sets took most of it away). But rest assured that ... know feeling of anticipation right before decisions are released, what it ... rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your nerves right

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... between sleeping and eating - writing this will hopefully break my cycle of ... of roosters and step outside my door to see peacocks, cows, and stray

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Rubik’s cubes 4 decks of cards 1 poker set, with 4 colors of chips ... inventoried all of this swag, which had formerly been occupying nearly 70% of ... under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  My rest & relaxation days ended in the beginning of July. After ... TV, and the company of old friends, I was definitely not looking ... my first taste of the working life. (P.S. One of my favorite moments

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  studio and not come out…till the wee hours of the morning. I think I recall ... that you have a general spatial understanding of where studio is, here ... , lots of music, and great company! This past Tuesday night

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  line at about 10:40 a.m., there were about 20 people ahead of me. Ten minutes later, there were hundreds of people behind me. Apparently, I got ... last row of reserved seating. We did, however, throw a few jealous looks

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

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  . But it may be the MIT students who have it toughest of all: it is finals week for the fall semester. Here's how the bloggers (most of whom have ... for tomorrow - same place, same time. Best moment of the day: 8:00 AM

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• 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 ... Friday! Pretty exciting stuff. Regardless of your political views, I think a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course

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

  My first real internship

  

  Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... cuprates". For those of you with complexions darker than mayonnaise, that ... the word "Superconductor" leaves you with an image of the world's lamest

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

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the ... , well, IAP. Oops. :) So, here's a quick recap of what I've done so far during the first week of MIT's Independent Activities Period. On Monday

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  Bombers and for having the largest concentration of Kosher keeping Jews on one floor anywhere, or just the highest concentration of Jews in general ... . Once. And that pretty much constitutes the entirety of my previous

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  ?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day ... President, or more colloquially, the Mommy. As Mommy, I was in charge of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life. There were moments of frustration and exhaustion, but also a whole lot of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... for the entire academic year one of more than 400 noted pieces of ... choices into a lottery. Over 4 years, 80% of students should "win" at least

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  Perhaps the second most exciting time of the year (after selecting the incoming class) is the selection of the new bloggers. And now, with freshman orientation quickly approaching, that time of year is upon us! As

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  of helping us avoid food coma). I ended up spending quite a bit of time in the downtown Borders (walking away with Ringworld, The Left Hand of ... Mass Ave, practically in view of home...and then I got distracted by the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world's impoverished - whether by war or famine or disease or any of the other myriad ... thinking.   It was in the process of doing so that I discovered my true

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a ... I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a ... something that would grace the presence of Arthur Ganson! (http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... feeling of distance and to give something more than my fundraising letter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of satire." Ling '07 had two of her MIT friends over this weekend and we went ... . Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006