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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  don't forward my MIT email to Gmail, and I've already taken myself off ... , although I'm not *technically* an Apple fan (I love my Macbook Pro, but I ... Boylston on foot (my bike was stolen - thanks a lot, whoever stole my bike a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes and alkynes in preparation for my upcoming midterms in 5.12 (organic ... terms off my notes; I don't know all them off the top of my head (mainly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... , the answer doesn't matter very much anyway. I got a 39 on my first math ... my pictures. One of them is a dry-sub printer; it sublimates red and

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  now than it is during the actual term. Which is a very good thing, in my ... , playing with cell culture for my UROP, and building stuff at my fraternity ... year's Hunt. Unfortunately, I actually missed the kickoff due to my UROP

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  wanted a small table to put in my room, but Rick decided to go all out, and convinced me to add a compartment to my table, so that you could open the top ... expected it to be, especially when I put it in my room. I tried it out for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  is dedicated to my favorite memories from Fall 2007. Navy ... '09 My girlfriend Kristen '09 and me. Who says you can't find a girl ... with my lovely A-Entry co-chair, Leslie '10 Lynn '11 surprised that

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  the deep and dark place that is my Inbox. Please keep your hands and ... -reproducing mold…) so if I stopped getting my weekly mailing from Braintrust or MIT ... by sending out even more emails… But in the end, checking my email is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my interview before I submit my Part I?" and "What happens if my teacher ... registered for MyMIT, which, if you haven't yet, you should do as soon as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  vaguely remember my first day of classes at MIT back in the Fall of 1996. I do remember my classes and my professors: Physics with Wolfgang ... Steven Pinker. For me, physics was certainly the hardest; not only did my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  out with no expectation of winning, so you can imagine my shock when I ... a Glamour writer ensued, where I shared my dreams, goals ... . I expected to receive a lot of direction regarding my pose, but she

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] My name is Mirat and I am a junior studying ... about my experiences here as a guest author. First off, some perks of life ... 'd end up, especially while all my friends at MIT were preparing for finals

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  'm splitting my time between Service Design/Performance and Technology Services ... roads connecting all of the various offices, but I've spent most of my ... lunch, all on my first day) to ask about something I'm working on, and we

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 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…

  

  , I got into my back-up school!!'") 2. Have long talks with your friends ... family and laughter - mine (as well as the recent discovery that my guy ... the chemistry test I had this Wednesday (my bad). I guess I don't regret

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

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  Today is one of my favorite days of the year: the end of daylight ... costumes. In my freshman year, the “best costume” award was given to a guy ... couldn’t go skating this year because my sorority was putting on a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  one up either.     America's Next Top Model I blame my wife for this. I vowed never to watch this show, ever. But my wife's a ... ; Veronica Mars My wife has been addicted to this show from the very first

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  Friday (October 20). So, if you haven't yet, go on to MyMIT, get your EC ... questions. My MIT interview was with an elderly alum, known to me as Mr ... remember several of my other interviews. My Dartmouth interviewer was so cool

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

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

  

  Today was my last day at work, which was very sad. Well, let's go ... some awesome people and my job can be a lot of fun. Very entertaining and ... on the slide and jump in to save two different kids. So that's my job

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

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc ... , because he's the boss. And he pays my salary. I'm going to finish up a few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  my laptop so that I can actually use it in Europe. Work is challenging ... 've also been tooling some in my free time, working my way through the books ... and the leader of what is now my lab, my resume. He forwarded it on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  birthday problem. This class really helped me out for my finance interviews too. Favorite professor at MIT: Prof. Daniel Kleitman is my favorite ... event a reality. UROPs: I worked with Nate Quitoriano (my TA for 3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006