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  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a week, during which she keeps trying to clean my room. Thanks, Mom. I think.) The things anyone may have said to you about classes and dorms and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on the same day. My comment to Mollie: "Wow, you guys are going to share ... aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In honor of that anniversary, I'd like to hear your stories. I know you all ... ? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to make it to these mandatory training meetings which conflicted with field

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

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and ... on back order (in my head, since it got DELETED), but I just wanted to ... week's topic in a virtual conference (you're literally talking to about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to ... ?" "On a picnic. Do you want to come?" "...Where?" "Killian Court. We have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  /East Bay this week. Many thanks to those who attended! The week started with ... year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest ... known as ECs) to help me out at these meetings. After San Jose, I headed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  Old Navy? Psh. I have to argue with parents to put lifejackets on their ... whatnot. So leaving was bittersweet. To commemorate the day, I thought I ... to know what the place actually looks like. Right. So here it is

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

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  exciting. My parents drove up from Harrisburg to watch me. My friends painted their chests to read GO SAM! I ran it with Mitra, my best friend from college and probably my best friend from MIT to this day. We got our picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the hallmarks of our entire trip. Walking around the city trying to find a ... much looking around, and to my surprise, the place was great. A little

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  So the annual no-problem-set-fest known as IAP really comes to an end ... Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I'd spend 4 hours every Saturday at etiquette school trying to learn how to

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  I am done with finals and very excited about that; you may be able to ... back, for 5.07: Biological Chemistry. There's something to be said for essentially being forced to copy out every intermediate in every major metabolic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see ... the recruitment, not the travel. I'm looking forward to the school visits and the big regional info sessions. I'm not looking forward to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  come in to MIT "undeclared," and use the entire freshman year to explore MIT before choosing a major. In order to provide some real, concrete examples, I went to the Facebook and looked at the class schedules of some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  of work to be done. So, you may ask, what are we up to right now ... . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... Cambridge to Honolulu. Now, we're arranging our itineraries, finding rooms in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and ... MIT performance groups give students the opportunity to buy a serenade ... sitting in class my freshman year, listening to a (differential equations

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  . You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This ... essays to be particularly helpful or insightful. I generally do not ... and insight into your particular situation. They're more than welcome to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004