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  Oh look, an update

  

  I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I ... 're in a major for which it's required. Also, because they're computer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of ... people who lists all the colleges they got into in their AIM profile. (As ... . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to demonstrate a strong passion or proficiency in something - playing a sport won

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at ... perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an ... you've all been picturing it in your heads all summer and are just dying

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the ... 't be a wuss and say "But there are fourteen hundred entrieeeees in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  computer in grad school. I suppose I should mention, in case it wasn ... Like Laura, I also read up a storm in the summer. I (re-)read Robert ... Monkeyluv last week, and I am currently in the middle of a book I've been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  and sign up for ten groups, because, hey, you did ten things in high ... because I live in the boondocks and it annoys me to go back to campus after ... any cheer expereince in high school, but I was wondering if it is a pre

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II ... the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Happy Organic Chemistry II Day! I ... of the year and then miss it? So, Mollie did that entry about life in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6-9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week off! Just got back today - 1000+ emails in my inbox - good times

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  descrptions in the course catalogue, with my own impressions underneath. 7 ... information in simple systems, and detection and information coding during ... quantitative than you'd think (in general, neuroscience is more quantitative than

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... by MIT?" IB is generally equivalent to AP in terms of academic rigor

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  in Harrisburg, PA and I thought I'd spend it posting old photos on this ... credit card fraud, and cashed in my winning lottery ticket. Despite having ... purcahsed a lottery ticket in my otherwise typical suburban life. So, on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  of clubs in school to activities that help to relieve human suffering ... ! The amount of passion in your applications. WOW! It does the soul good ... of you are chomping at the bit to jump right in. As the Black Eyed Peas

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  than we do. If you are interested in playing on a varsity sports team at ... form. If you are interested in our music community, consider sending in a music recording. If you are interested in our art community, considering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always ... , fall 2002. Instructor Steven Devlin:"Once, when Gauss was in elementary ... .02, Multivariable Calculus, spring 2003. Professor Michael Sipser: "I have found in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  exactly what you're asking about. In other news, yesterday was Halloween ... to tell. In fact, I'm embarassed just thinking about it. The thing is ... . Matt suggested that I dress up as an iPod, which was cool in a way, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  , frostbite is no fun and neither is being wet all the time. In case you haven ... in January is 36 degrees, the average low is 22 (it's also the coldest ... most precipitation on average occurs in November. - The lowest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of ... to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... in a while. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:21:31 -0400 [03:21:31 PM EDT ... ! Headers: Show All Headers Hey, B-C students! In conjunction with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  main OCW site, which lists the departments in alphabetical order rather ... find Chemistry in the C's rather than the F's -- for five, the chemistry ... purpose. Oh well. I am, by the way, the one in the front row middle of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005