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  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  International Math Olympiad team in 1974, and what freshman class does this professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... helpful in our math problem set group. Later, I learned that he was the top

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high-school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks ... . So if I wasn't in my dorm room, exploring Harvard Square, or secretly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  's qualifying rounds in something like 20 years, so people around here were pretty ... games- either in bars with friends or in La Plaza de Colón, where they put ... watched the game in a bar/restaurant place. Our waitress served our taps

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... Michael Epstein, who graduated from MIT with a Masters in Comparative Media ... . If you visited MIT in early September, perhaps you even used one of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It's as if ... me in the dentist's chair. Inevitably after they've numbed one or both ... some stuff in my mouth that I can NO LONGER FEEL. It's at this point that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  enlightening. As I wrote back in February, I'm reading three heavy-duty books in the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of ... , and am fairly confident that I knew what was going on in each book. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  wrestling. Later, we both did varsity wrestling in high school, which is a ... class in the CMS department this term devoted to pro wrestling: CMS.602 Topics in Comparative Media Studies. The class is taught by Sam Ford, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... papers, mixing small volumes of colorless liquids in the lab -- the ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right ... aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time ... . This is the best recipe for soup I have ever tasted in my short life

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  completely bore you with the details of my trip I will compose them in haiku. Drove down Saturday, hung out with my family at Mom's house in Philly On Sunday I held the Philly central meeting in Fort Washington On Monday

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  Things I would highly recommend bringing, in no particular order: 1. Cell ... , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... I won in a competition. I don't take it out of my room that often, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The last movie Tony Randall appeared in was Down With ... fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news ... from Nice, but one of the Bahn stations in München is called Freiheit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  . Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world ... 's what's been going on in my life. Yesterday in 6.002, somebody brought a ... '08 drew attention to the fact that it was, in fact, moving, smelling

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  doing her MEng in the EECS department, but she told me she couldn't answer any questions since she's in the MEng masters program, which is only for ... Ethan '05, who is currently in the MechE program, but he hasn't gotten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  -- since I didn't come in yesterday (I was up in Maine at Adam's ski condo watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7 ... days of work in one day. That is also the bad news... particularly since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... process. I've made some effort to keep up with current events in Admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... was at South Station and hopped on Amtrak, arriving in the bustling metropolis of Saco in a couple of hours. I really wish I'd taken a picture

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  mediocrity in both. In fact, 60% of interviewed students said that they planned ... well-rounded by participating in a variety of activities, from sport ... . Consequently, students enter college with a ton of experience in different fields

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn ... buried way down in the bottom right-hand corner of the site, and we had ... MIT mission statement that was crafted before development even began: In

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005