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  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  attending this year. If you haven't yet registered (via your MyMIT account ... these blogs all year, this is one event you won't want to miss! All of the ... - don't miss it. And then... the ultimate end to CPW... ZBT's Battle of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  when. You can count on me, can't you? I think I eventually come to love all of my professors in a different way. I don't know, call it Stockholm ... ultimate teacher in my estimation. As if this weren't enough, he's also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  might be and when I didn't see a "did you mean..." message, I assumed it ... I fixed it. Thanks a bunch. Moral of the story: I can't spell, but ... pretty much a mess and I haven't folded all my laundry, but I'm making a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  [top college], it'll all be great. I won't have to worry anymore." I ... has this steel is self-evident. But you don't have to have it ... to need it. You're going to test it. Remember this, so that you don't

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your ... want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A ... . Anonymous asked if Stanford was grade-inflated. Well, I don't have any ... the grapevine that it's inflated. I don't think that causes Stanford

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  how some people might find it to be a little slow, but I personally didn't ... Salvation Army, and they didn't ask us to leave or anything, so I figure we ... secret snowflake was not so cool anyway and didn't really deserve a reward

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  , weren't even plowed, but I managed to score a ham/sausage/cheese omelette ... sabbatical next semester to write a book, so won't see him around for a while ... . Wednesday brought the admissions mail mixup, which really wasn't a big deal at

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  even more difficult, but doesn't change the fact that it's still ... until the group comes to a unanimous decision. If one can't be reached ... 're almost there. At the end of the day we count. I can't give you details (so

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  picture (if someone hasn't already said this yet). I beliieeeve the silver ... applications to be considered?" No. Usually we don't see Midyear grades until ... school report and transcript haven't shown up as processed yet. Is this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• 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