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• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh vegetables don't just grow on trees, people. Ahem.) After dinner, she came to ... and joined the cheerleading squad; it assured her that I hadn't been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  kind of can't move my head. This makes sitting at my computer slightly ... /brain and cognitive sciences major is that I frequently don't have class on ... -- therefore, hour classes can't start until 9 AM. Doesn't that make you happy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Budget guy, he remarked "the car you reserved isn't ready at the moment ... are practically inevitable. And truth be told, somehow I just don't ... 's me," I said to the car. "This just isn't going to work out." I think

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  that window shade! I don't know why a printer cable is dangling from ... few highlights. The note on this door wouldn't normally be amusing ... is a TechCash reader. Most vending machines aren't so handily equipped

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  summer activities are off by a few weeks, don't fall on the right days, etc ... come up, but we won't count it negatively against you. Besides, the ... about yourself. The interview isn't a quiz or a grilling session, it is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  convenient to double-major than for two unrelated fields, but that doesn't mean that for unrelated fields, it can't be done. As you asked about Physics ... requirement is more complicated than that, but we won't get distracted by that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  think I'll let my stomach take over.) First, TechCash. We don't have ... pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... isn't cheap, but neither is any kind of food in Boston (the price of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  a little apology note attached and crossed my fingers that it won't ... difference was between CI-H and CI-HW. Still don't, in fact. So I just filled out the lottery based on the subjects I was interested in and didn't

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  , I didn't have any "formal" clothes, especially not for warm weather. I hadn't worn a skirt or dress since I was junior in high school. I doubt ... t-shirt or turtleneck and didn't come from the Army Barracks store on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  ?" Everyone laughed politely and realized he/she wasn't craving dessert quite so ... someone was up until 4:00 AM playing Warcraft, but I don't want to mention ... . I wanted to explain, "I have two more years to go! I didn't fail the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... had an aneurysm. It's actually sort of surprising that I haven't yet ... -back-at-the-ex MIT application. One thing I forgot to mention is that it didn't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  'm just excited to see how I did on these tests, even though I know I didn't ... clueless about college, so he was like "Well I don't get it, but I'm glad you ... up, so don't listen to me. Once you open up either of these programs

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  '00 replied, Yo mama so fat, pi doesn't even begin to describe her ... . e doesn't get used nearly as much, in my opinion. sure, there are ... many (and i didn't say all) situations. i realize that its self

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  year" between high school and college isn't for everyone -- and that just goofing off isn't worthwhile -- they say many students who take one return ... any reason as long as students don't apply elsewhere. "It's reached the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  seperate beds?" I can't speak for every dorm, but at East Campus, most rooms ... separate beds. I've seen bunk beds in Simmons but don't know if they ... two separate beds, but I don't know what the norm is, or if there is a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  an essay. But I have heard that MIT doesn't like to recieve extra ... (as told by my seniors) and doesn't really come in contact with the ... interviewing in India. I don't know what we will discover, but feel free to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  )" I don't know if any decisions hinge on this question, but I'll give it ... visited." As an international, I don't know how much you follow American ... looking at GPA right?" With two great choices like MIT and Yale, you can't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  looks like it won't be interesting. Most of what I'll be writing about is ... are good introductions: Don't Let Me Down, the puzzle in this year ... course, puzzlehunts aren't just about the puzzles. In my previous post I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  building a career out of her true passions, even though the road hasn’t been ... for Social Media (CMS.613/21W.751) is—I don’t know where else you could ... sixties, and in the sixties you don’t have Twitter. That doesn’t really

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  since it won’t be sent with the admissions application packet?" That won't be a problem, no worries. We, of course, have a procedure for that ... . How do I change my address? Thanks!" Don't worry! You can either email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006