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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  think he deserves some sort of trophy, don't you? Before I tell you about ... my college reunion (I won't say which number, but you can stalk me on ... . What an amazing state you have! (And I honestly didn't mind how hard it

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I ... Hampshire. But, Ben and Matt convinced me that I wouldn’t die, and promised ... said that she had a spare key in a lock box but she couldn’t quite

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... Classes of 2012 and 2013 (!). 3:31pm: I can't walk more than 10 feet without ... Germany. 5:56pm: Quick rest in the office. The weather hasn't been quite as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  , we aren't going to satisfy the 10^18 Joules per year that the US needs ... my group would beat my face, if they weren't all really nice girls who live in Next House. Anyway, the moral of the entry is that you shouldn't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to ... critical job for parents is to make sure that young people don't interpret ... that we don't always get to choose which one we take. Finding the right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place But somehow I can't ... don't know as much about these fields. In addition, entrepreneurship is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway ... that our clarinet player, Michael '09, built for us. Since we don't have ... piano! In a marching band. We can't really afford a marimba or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  from the front? Yeah. Don't have it. Maybe when I stop being lazy, or ... closest dorm to the Kendall Square T station on the Red Line.) By the way ... what happens. (What, you wouldn't do it?) If you ever visit MIT, check

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  You can't take any other classes in the Aero/Astro department until ... . Plus, I'm sick of running, I'm not in such a hurry. I don't even know ... that my full attentions will turn to a course 8 degree. Hey hey don't get

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  East Campus hall 5th East (my home), the fraternity tEp, the independent ... . These remote hunters aren't always alums...one of our hunters this (and ... has a ten-day game during IAP. It hasn't started yet; I just got the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  , and New House since I haven't ridden a bike in a few years ... minutes wrestling with the lock), and I don't have gloves yet because I come ... guilty pleasure music.)(You don't actually have to send me postcards, it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... home for MIT’s Family Weekend, I rushed into her arms and squealed. Don’t even say you wouldn’t have done the same, as I was witness to plenty of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  . I don't want to spend this whole entry describing Professor Lander ... school in a city that is a hub of so much intellectual activity. (And I don't ... Lander advised us at lunch, "Whether you know or don't know what you want

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  program readily available at my high school. I didn't have any AMC scores to ... you in, but it won't make you or break you. It's not your responsibility ... 's not your fault if you can't find people who are just as excited about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  course description doesn't exactly convey how the class is "analytically ... the context of a subject that one doesn't traditionally associate with ... . ------------------------------ Many people haven't heard of the CMS major before; "Comparative media

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 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…

  

  that UROP, he says, he “probably wouldn’t be sitting here today ... says that seeing the genomic data - the string of A, T, G, and C’s - was ... example, if the same string of A, T, G, and C’s appears in dogs, rats, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  gender pronouns didn't come out too well, though.) While the article itself ... , more food; and don't forget that last night the entire class of 2010 got ... 's pretty easy to have a great time, since classes haven't started yet. More

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  you were. But there's so much I don't agree with about the AP system ... wasn't true at your high school, but in all ten classes I took there was ... . (Plus, I haven't retained most of it - another one of my gripes about the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  , although she doesn't like riding in the car at all. And now I really have to ... 're going to have to T it up a little bit. The closest store is in Malden ... outbound train and go to the Malden Center T stop. The store is about a mile

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  :45 AM. Well, dude, I'm in college; I'm not don't have the money to take an express train. And I don't have to meet my carpool for work until 7 ... be a little suspicious of all future train travel here. Maybe I won't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006