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• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  . To kick off my new blog, I thought I'd do some blogging from the road, with some "day in the life"s, similar to others that have been done in previous years (see left-hand column of the "the road" link). So feel free to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just dancing awkwardly under the watchful eye of your teacher chaperones (“Sally ... to MIT you will have the opportunity to go to Senior Ball, which was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  : The Battle Moves to the Trenches” by Cornelia Dean (the Times’s science editor.) The article opens with: “Since the 1970s, women have surged into ... -tier institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  entry where I talk about the horrible trigonometric torture I endured in my 2.001 lecture. You see the double-angle formulas, don’t you? Yuck ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  distinction, he seemed genuinely surprised that I had even heard the news and ... , outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype ... family to France and eventually arrived in the U.S. in 1993. Manolis, his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Takeshi Kaga, the flamboyant chairman from Japan's Iron Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of Les Miserables. If you own the 10th Anniversary Concert DVD, you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  Laura had an interesting entry a little while ago about the Mario ... '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real-world adventures and social-engineering, and they use 'hax' or 'haxxed' to denote the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  The NACAC conference happens each fall. About 4200 admissions people ... for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up ... to network and ask questions. There are keynote speakers at the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  aside until I saw the days I had gone without blogging continue to ... the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of the fall semester. In case you aren't from MIT, just as general

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  deadline of 4 weeks and an MIT undergrad in the midst of classes, clubs ... unpredictable, as things usually tend to do here. Here’s the unfolding of my research, from an organized beginning to a furious blur at the end. Step 1

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  was an excerpt from chemist Primo Levi’s memoir, The Periodic Table. I ... this Saturday. The first break of the school year passed this weekend ... this rare opportunity to go on trips and retreats up in the Northeastern

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  spelling. Luckily for the sake of our collective sanity, however the ... websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the acronym is probably more recognizable than the full name. It’s therefore

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  Alright, here goes.   I’m a Burton Third Bomber. For the uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might ... . Well, that a cappella group is having our last concert of the semester ...  a cappella. Of course, the concert's not limited to just singing, because who

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all things MIT over the course of Campus Preview Weekend, better known simply ... prefrosh, because I don't think it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until ... . Because for the first time in our lives perhaps, there is very little

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you ... . So now that all the interview reports are being filed, it's a good time ... everything that you've already told us in the application. If we did, what

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  Over the past three days, two MIT-related researchers have been awarded the Nobel prize, bringing the grand total to 63 faculty, researchers ... received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19, and I just finished my second year at MIT. Until recently, I was the ... a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017