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• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends ... idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  how your degree helps you navigate the "real world" of business, banking ... internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I ... dinner was catered by Vinny Testa's of Boston. We took a cab back

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  receive a Masters degree in some area of engineering combined with an MBA ... distractions, and offers lots of desk space to spread out! Enough studying ... With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  University, who nevertheless said he had yet to read a profile of a young ... reception, I stood as a representative of the first university to get ... On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... of emails since Saturday and a bunch of blog comments, all asking for "just a couple of sentences" about why a specific applicant was not

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... angsty thoughts about life/the universe/everything posts) and reuse them in

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long ... , and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... buildings don't seem as elegant as some of the other universities I visited ... based on reputation alone. So, this AMA was about life, the universe, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  second degree on time. A pretty good understanding of E&M and cellular ... how my second degree affects my chances of admission. Would I do it ... experiences with untold numbers of people. Maybe I can even give them some

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 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 ... from the living room. "SAM!" she yelled. "The Cornucopia of Doom is on!" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For those of you interested in keeping a running tally, we're up to 15

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  history of the universe. This would horrify undergrad Anna, who was afraid ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  course 20 degree, so I am technically a 19 but kind of a 20…….” Seems like ... , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day ... senior events that are planned for the class of 2019. My main concerns

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged ... spend a significant portion of the next 72 hours taking full advantage of my current streak of lab luck. After my blog last week, both Chris and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that's about it. This concept of leaves falling off trees? Yeah. Completely ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL ... practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... than watching 1/4th of a movie, I started thinking as I looked out the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20 ... ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  want a masters degree in your subject pretty much by the end of sophomore ... taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... schoolwork, I've had crazy amounts of free time recently. Not that I've really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006