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  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics I’ve explored in the GEL Program, which I thought was pretty exciting. Thanks to those of you…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  IAP has finally started, so that means my grocery bill is much larger than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself for every night in January.…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  This entry from Elizabeth in 2010 has been re-posted in celebration and congratulations to our new provost – Professor Chris Kaiser. You can read more about Prof. Kaiser’s new appointment…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I’m currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of the campus bubble. It’s too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A to Activity in…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  -what-awesome-thing-happened-to-me-lately!” theme of this blog post. Life at MIT is awesome, but on a fundamental ... , and school is a pretty big part of life. But yes, awesome things have

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  Imagine, if you will, the following situation… You join a dense crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by people ushering you inside; the…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn’t arrive back to MIT until the last possible moment, Registration Day (last Tuesday, September 7). I know some people feel the week or two…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  WE INTERRUPT THIS BLOG POST FOR A BRIEF PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT <url=http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  I absolutely hate picking favorites. My grandmother always said never to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway. Because I truly, truly…

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  [by Ken Haggerty ’11] ABOVE: “How We Make Someone Invisible, 1” (2010): India ink on Mylar®. I will admit upfront that I am a bit, if not a byte, more…

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who weren’t old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom’s best friend from college’s sister’s…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  pet). Sure, I don't think CPW was an accurate representation of life at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  life-both good and bad-are the products of factors that you cannot ... losing to Alabama, Tebow played the best game of his life in the Sugar Bowl

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  computer through your daily life. Case in point - walk into any common

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  Hey all! I haven’t been around this site in months, and rather than giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem myself to you applicants and…

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ’10] The Wiesner Student Art Gallery is located on the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent location for current MIT students…

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  with you, but at this transitional, trans-semester stage in my life, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman ’13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Detachment 365, including myself, traveled over to Hanscom Air Force Base…

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  My high school didn’t have the broadest range of athletic options, so I’ve always been excited about finding new rec’ stuff to try out in college. Besides, as in the…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013, today we have a pair of stories about a terrific pair of young women… Chandler ’13 and Taylor ’13 Jonte ’13 Sean…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009