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  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... minute, though, I whipped out my blogger "media" credentials and managed to ... photojournalists with big honkin' telephoto lenses, which totally assauged my worries

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  My courseload this semester might look like that of a confused ... . You know how they say "Do one thing that scares you every day"? My ... -Nehisi Coates, who writes for the Atlantic - which in the past year became my new

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  summer leading up to MY freshman year I haunted these blogs and I expect ... 'm Snively, I graduated in 2011 (MechE) and have just completed my first year ... ? My job. My job is very much not boring and I think you'll agree. I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  I’m finally in my last semester as an MIT undergraduate, and the majority of my time since classes have started has been spent doing something related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  activities before the actual orientation begins. My FPOP was the Freshman Arts ... my cohorts and I were escorted to the FAP lair on the fourth floor of ... ancient, crusty sophomore. When not grooming my enormous silver beard, I

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  amusement of floormate Swetha '13 and with the full support of my roommate Jeanne '13, I pulled out my camera and literally took pictures for about ten minutes: All my pictures turned out like this...it was snowing, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  My name is Chris Peterson. My title - all Serious People have titles ... the digital ooze, my job is to help make the Internet go for the ... wanted to obscure my individual unimportance behind interlocking bulkheads

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive urge to blog about my shoes. Understand, reader, that I had journeyed by ... my shoes at room temperature had properties usually associated with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  Professor Leeb, my 6.131 Professor, notices if we're late. So I tend to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34 ... a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• 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 / 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 / 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 / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  , all dressed up for Christmas. This is my side of the room: and ... spent weeks visualizing my new room and it took only 3 days in early June to turn my vision into reality. This is where

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• 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