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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year ... ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... lunch on the beach, and discussed strategy for the upcoming years, as well ... out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/help on the homepage, we kept the blogs and the admissions "touts" but ... , and so we decided to share the same design agency (which ended up being ... on in admissions, and we never set aside the time, or the money, to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before ... [z] enough for MIT". When the website loaded and I skimmed that page ... lane on the Freeway and couldn’t help but check. Almost crashed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next ... school and how the Lord was working on our campuses. I played on the ... astrophysicists – people who can relate to the thoughts and questions that an MIT

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... remain on the same campus or even in the same city, there will always be ... and won't be blogging much on here anymore, I'm always available over e

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in ... space, you can do most anything: I’ve taken naps on the couches, grabbed ... , the Margaret Cheney was smaller and many repairs needed to be managed

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... not so good at and that i can usually get away with neglecting. this is

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  make it have a height, and thus, the cube is born. You can also input ... length segments, on the XY plane, and then use a Box component to extrude ... of easily editable cubes[/caption] The same idea can be applied to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  -690 5% From what you wrote you'd think being in the 700-740 range and being in the 750-800 range doesn't have much impact on your chance of admission, but there's a 50% difference. Now, I and others are on the record

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... completely new, and it felt good to be the nerdy one again. We walked through ... no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  can and should be fun and rewarding.   6. To learn the difference ... worked out the physics of shockwaves and high-energy collisions on a ... said, “it shouldn’t be painful.”  Challenging can mean sadness and tears

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  yourself, and know that you will be successful and can change the world no ... you are (about 2 decades in the making!) and don't focus on the present ... , even when it seems like you can't. There may be hard times along the way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  , bribes, and persuasion, I traveled from my bed (on the third of Burton ... -by on the sidewalk. Others on the floor took the idea and ran with it ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so ... 've thought on-and-off about that sailing trip. how do you sail against the wind ... optionality and buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  . Continuing can be active; continuing is about the linkage between past-you and ... road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  because of the cumulative benefits of diversity on the student body — and ... educate people from every walk of life.” This and other statements on the ... class to be “more diverse” is a complex and contested question. For the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  , literally everyone you can about it. Punt the decision and play board games ... . Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021