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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of shoes exhibiting the minimum amount of traction possible, and so it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it ... decent chance of admission, from applying. This would also give confidence

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  knowing how to apply it to an exam question. (Prefrosh, take note of this ... thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams ... Integrative Cancer Research! Oncology has been a major research interest of mine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  of Friday and all of Saturday completely off. Yes, that screws me for today, and possibly all of next week (Playsentations soon? Do we have a ... phone vendors hocking products, lot's of bustle. Saturday evening most of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  of my kitchen stuff (bowls and spoons and so on), she promised to save me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus ... automatically prints what's called a "header page" before all of your stuff. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  Have any of you read “The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT”? If ... moments that reminded me of things that White had talked about, including ... have also come across several of the professors that White mentioned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  stumbles over my roommates' chairs, I was out of the door of my fraternity ... across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or so, I think I speak for us all when I say it was “one of those weeks.” Not that almost every week at MIT isn’t one of those weeks (is that one

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  of physics is trying to figure out which angle is which? I mean, you ... figure out the component of mg in the direction of the inclined plane ... ’s always my least favorite part. Of anything. Ever. Well, this particular 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  with bittersweet. Trust me when I say that I deal with all kinds of ... those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at ... /her life" doesn't work. Of course, if you have the right amount of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... of Women Engineers (SWE), only 19.7% of undergraduates in engineering ... crunching the numbers myself to be sure. At MIT, 35% of engineering majors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  . Today was my first day of work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH ... on that later. But first, a State of the Institvte address. The school year ended with a fizzle. I must admit, I love rolling out of bed on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  by the capital Greek letter omega. The inverse of resistance is ... -down letter omega. Yesterday I had one of those quintessential MIT moments. I ... this summer. There was some great food courtesy of the MIT Faculty Club

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ... 't really done any laundry or things of the sort, so I had to rush. Fortunately, none of the banks I went to seemed to have Euros so I had to take

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the component of force that my will would experience tangent to the wall during

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  , or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of ... application by thinking a bit about the applicant's context. I can see much of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  if it comes from a box or consists only of taco meat and cheddar cheese ... (like that I'm good at this kind of thing or something) or the amount of ... . Lunch: Salami and cheese sandwhiches have been the staple of my lunch

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005