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• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  completion my real estate agent swung by to check on the progress.  She was ... again, I was on the hook for a $94k car, and the moving trucks were headed ... awed by its 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and it being all-electric. 2 years later

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  . The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city during autumn. Walking along the Charles River. The great music clubs. Free movies on the Esplanade during the summer. The many, many ice cream shops

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  like the time has officially come for Laura's Entry on Unsolicitied ... points on your SATs simply does not matter. At this point, you've done all ... out the first one for some Q&A.] Last Thursday night, Ruth emailed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  breakfast, mess around for a bit, and embark on my journey to 6-120, my ... work on research for our project or plan and design a couple of things we ... on my code. He obviously noticed that I haven't been asking for his

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  semester) were simply because I was too prideful to ask for help. Oh yeah! I ... update y'all on how my new schedule was going. And the answer to the ... funny? Sometimes when you need help the best thing to do is ask for help

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  booths for each department and free stuff for freshmen (biology department ... Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... over the river and through the woods) to my grandmother's house for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  is to pay to sit for four hours on a bus (more on that to come). I ... )). Instead of paying for MIT parking, though, I keep my car on the street. It ... grateful; on top of that, I found a voucher for $50 in my rain coat pocket

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  Update (11/19/06; 2:08 PM) The cultural reference for that symbol goes ... Triforce was created by three Goddesses to serve as a symbol of their sacred

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  like! I've been on grad school visits for the past 3 weeks, which are ... DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland, Maine. What a coincidence that Matt's entry on thanking parents came on

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

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  from the waitlist in the past few years? Should I even bother staying on ... have some waitlist admits. Whether you stay on the list or not is a ... does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  incoherent pen-markings in every wild direction on their notebooks. You can ... most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October ... , complex language. I was simply exhausted. Just because it's MIT doesn't mean

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT ... following email: "I , and the department are looking for 4-6 volunteers from each class who would like to have lunch on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  okay. i'm super behind on this and that's my bad. but... when you return to/arrive on campus, you should consider getting a bike. it's so ... ="the entrance on Mass Ave. that most students pass through to get to class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  Parent Connectors and Alumni on Friday night at 5:00 pm Sponsored by the ... Undergraduate Research. Insight for Parents by Parents is Saturday morning at 8 ... us “Under the Great Dome" for an informal gathering hosted by the Chair

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  later than I expected because a friend asked for help on 8.02 (Electricity ... get to HQ for some reason. Then we got on the bus at the wrong time ... students roaming around. Those that are really intensely looking for a job

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not ... never provide. Yesterday, instead of lining up at midnight for the Black ... hosted by the local Patagonia (you may have heard of their prominent anti

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  astronomy professor for permission to deliver a 20-minute public talk on ... about your topic, for (1) (2) and (3). Make new notes on your notes ... 't hear anything you said" on their feedback forms, so I guess it's possible

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  -rest-of-my-life opportunity. It was a great idea in my opinion! So there I am, sitting on the ... know to work on a project that covers subjects in chemical engineering that I’ve never studied in depth for a company that has never taken

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  Trivia: By population, which US states are most and least represented ... California, Michigan, and Massachusetts, followed quickly behind by Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Virginia. For a complete list of sessions, click

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  enter the Intel Science Talent Search, but if you really like building ... . These hands-on projects tie in directly with MIT's core principles. And look around MIT for lots of examples of cool projects, like: Disco

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006