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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  assigned to Next House (I still run into my host, and I ended up living in ... school, broke up after a few months, realized how much they hated the ... up the MIT vibes, and ask us questions. If something is bugging you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  behind them catches up to them (bumps them). The first boat across the ... 't like a subject or professor, at least you don't have to put up with it ... , and it was fun wandering around. We ended up at an antique store run by

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high ... , mustering up every bit of my courage, I defied Pulitzer Prize-winning composer ... was ecstatic, but I then faced the challenge of rustling up three other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  class where the only instructions were, "Okay, read this paper, come up ... cartridges of 22 M formic acid at all times, that's going to add up to a lot of ... time you're not actively talking on the phone, it's going to heat up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  ... From Mills' perspective his scores don't quite measure-up. Nevertheless ... , he is admitted to the Class of 2011. Let's back up for a moment and ... : Everyone falls down; it's the winners in life who get up really fast and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  causing some exciting discussion and controversy, which always spices up ... the greatest pick up line i have ever heard in my life... AHHH too bad ... consisted entirely of nerdy pick-up lines, beginning with that one. (“Vote for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  start setting up camp, got a little more into the whole pirate mood than ... -quite-ready-for-piracy boat.... ...where we promptly set up camp (so prompt, in fact, that ... got picked up by harbor patrol and taken safely to shore. Luckily

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  job involves cleaning up poop in monkey cages. Desk is actually a pretty ... AWESOME CATEGORIES SITE I would take the time to write up an actual job ... 'd always just hang up on people who asked me to transfer their call. Then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 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…

  

  paper ridiculous. I ended up passionately hating Joyce Carol Oates for ... hike up there. What they also have is a monument marking the highest ... few sights in London. OH WAIT! I also came up with another commercial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  out of the way without your 'bad' grades showing up on your transcript ... textbook like crazy and thought that I could never catch up with the rest of ... yourself in this situation, don't fear! You will catch up, and maybe even do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  cleaner than the Charles, I really miss the 17 miles of running paths set up ... world in my UROP, where I take ground-up turkey carcasses and put them in ... 's got the HPLC back up and running and that we can start collecting data

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question ... slides -- when you shake up a water/protein solution (for example, by ... 've been keeping up with the financial aid information that you've been sent

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  and tell me that I should have contacted him, because I only ended up ... liked to paint tangled masses of naked people getting sucked up to heaven ... to bring them up! Ruth -- Well, I'm limited somewhat by the fact that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  happens when you get old.) It's totally up to you -- there are computers of ... and fast, I suppose, but otherwise it's really up to your personal ... a tendency to mean "close but expensive". There's also one up in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  while I'm up there and the Emerson scholarship still doesn't include MTG ... probably adds up to about one extra class worth of time for you, which isn ... have to get there by 4 PM to pick one up. With a bike, this is no problem

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  , you're being welcomed to campus and everything is looking up. You're on ... let you catch up to them. It sort of depends how invested you were in ... soul were instead in constant line with the passions that got you up in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  difficult. Seriously, I couldn't pass up this place, and I'll tell you why ... to join my high school's paper. So, I showed up to the first meeting of ... but AWESOME. So that brings up another point. Yes, the winters are cold

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  to the computer, bring up this page and walk away. WAIT, WAIT! DON'T GO TOO FAR! They may get freaked out if your IM pops up and your best ... though they won't clean their rooms, stay up too late and drink way too

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  shook my hand and said (I am not even making this up), "I saw in your ... up doing the molecular/cellular track, even though I had very little ... for my email address. It's up there in the blog banner, and anyone is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  get it over with. The gel ran for about two hours, then I set it up to ... , and all the water boiled off. The beaker heated up and cracked, causing ... who ends up at MIT next year, I'll still be around! EDIT: (for people

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006