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  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  penurious radiators, I can't help but rhapsodize my midsummer memories of ... roofdeck . . . anyway, I digress. **Way to steal my polysyllabic descriptors ... -gasmically grateful that I gave you one of my granola bars from Trader Joe's? Anyway, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  for so many votes, but in the end it all worked out (I hope!). My prize ... ! $100! One of my charms is that I have absolutely no responsibility when ... it said it could, then it may be the answer to my problems. I wasn

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  new students last September, but while my former school friends enjoyed ... joined Finnie and the drinks industry in wailing disapproval. In my ... disappointed to celebrate my 18th birthday last September with cake and soda. But

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

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  is ostensibly a CPW entry, I guess I should talk about my CPW. Overall, my CPW was pretty tame. Keep in mind this is saying tame for CPW - this ... ). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  This is my friend Kat '10, and she's one of my very favorite people. My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to ... Hunt winner blogger (my money's on Evan for next year, though). She of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  My cousin was involved in the Free Tibet campaign when he attended ... , even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s ... walk down the street without seeing someone my age wearing a Che Guevara

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  “crusty’ seniors, my classmates and I are at a point where we have to make a ... decisions will make a profound impact on the rest of our lives. My classmates ... of trepidation that I say that the next 9-10 years of my life are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  finish line wins as usual. More on that in my next entry. I promised last entry to comment on academics at Cambridge versus MIT. Note that my account is only applicable to my own department (materials science and

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  undergrad, your social culture, in my observation, depends largely on two ... typical date between students at my high school or middle school was like, I ... representations of teen life. So my concept of what a first date between two young

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour ... my evening learning about No Child Left Behind (for a public policy ... chatting with my next-door neighbor (a senior) about his second-round job

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  pre-blog entry paragraph dripping with bitter disdain. So, my apologies ... EST To: [email protected] I FIXED MY HARD-DRIVE!!!11one -Patrick ... just "I'm Irish because my grand^50 great aunt stopped over there once

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my ... supporting my conclusion, and she told me that Joyce Carol Oates called that ... , Anthony. But back to my other story. The dreadlocked Kendall '07 lives in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... the credit, will I feel out of my league if I do, etc. All this is ... .01 is going to make my life difficult when I start taking classes in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  My weekend It's been a somewhat busy two not-school days. Yesterday ... conditioners for the new apartment. Now ask me how much I've studied for my ... of my friends from home are graduating college with about a zillion

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  still haven't started my third pset that's due tomorrow." Faux-sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to ... project I've got due at the end of the week. My group hasn't even met yet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  Thursday night was, well, interesting. I was working on my lab for 6 ... . My TA had suggested that we budget nine hours for it. Ha. Hahaha. She ... taking this class when I'm not even course 6, feeling my attempt to prove

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  evaluated in context. "In my country (Kenya) students who sat for the ... send it to you?" Absolutely! "Are admission interviews available in my ... in your MyMIT account) then it is likely that we don't have an

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a ... . Obviously my response is directed to parents, but I thought it was important enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  people - and our correspondence has been the highlight of my experience ... physically. I threw a party on the Saturday following CPW, which most of my ... whole coincidence just seemed fitting. * * * My boss (Lorelle) is

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005