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  Green Monsters

  

  Chronic Not the same few colleges: The University of California at Santa ... Championship Series. My friends and I had planned a West Wing season premiere party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ^3 offers all kinds of help for pretty much any kind of problem an MIT ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to ... to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up ... , more than I probably realize. So, while I may not think of my self as a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  ; one of them happens to be learning about the incredible West African ... to still take advantage of the incredible opportunities MIT has to offer, although it does mean that people sometimes look at me funny as I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  the first one: Not the same few colleges: The State University of New ... the nearest major research university to where I grew up, for some of ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  played a half-done rendition of Sweet Home Alabama that I thoroughly ... I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a quest to Random Hall, where the was word of Truffle-making. When I finally

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  humanities, and only one graduate ball represents the coveted MIT diploma. Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all ... engineers, and there are a lot of us! Since February, about 150 mechanical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  personalities of the felines on Fifth West of East Campus.    Puru is a ragdoll ... So they say that the best part of MIT is the people. Is this true ... to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  Name: Amy Perez Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions Hometown: Lubbock, TX High school: Lubbock High School College: Tulane University, Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT community announcing the creation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing ... phenomenon — the ubiquity of computing and the rise of AI. In this new world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  us managed to receive our diplomas after 3.5 straight hours of pouring ... number of reasons (including MIT’s amazing financial aid offer), I arrived ... don’t think “being an alum” will hit me until it’s the first week of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a ... the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on MIT Admissions, I wrote about what I thought was the "secret" of college ... hundreds of people who had since became my classmates and my friends, and now

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... trade in courses in physics and math for wonky classes like "Science of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  , and walk past a large chunk of Boston University. On the plus side ... keep my room at a feisty 80 degrees this winter and start a refuge ... “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... , on Fifth West, which is a wonderful hall filled with cats and friends ... clear cool night, talking about life beneath the stars - a little piece of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  few Universities that will offer a biological engineering degree. I have ... (Principle Investigator) at some University. A PI is the head of a lab at a ... will find there are two groups of people. There is group A that despises

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  write an algorithm finding the number of degrees of separation between ... particularly good job of finding that balance this semester. :D I took on a lot the second half of this year. I’m taking five classes; I’m doing

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , many of us are receiving job and graduate school offers. It’s with a bit ... of recommendation and proceed to your personal statement, where you ... strangers.”) Have no fear; there is light at the end of the tunnel. Second

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009