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• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  MIT and I realized the best supplement would be me. I'm gonna be on ... international Applicant, and therefore am not to fill out the "Mid-Year Grade ... on the online tracking. Is this something I should be worried about, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  -to-back, followed by a third on Thursday. I would say that I’ll blog about the result, but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless ... , but the weather was a little too nice, and I quickly got distracted and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake ... life. Twelve minutes later, suitcase packed and shoes on the right feet ... how conflicted it left me. I can't imagine missing out on the adventure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... unsurprisingly, more than half of the competitors, and all but one of the medals, have come from the "pirate sports" of rowing, sailing, fencing and rifle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  on the writing section?" We'll certainly see your 760 and be ... taking AP Psych, but I did list it in the AP Test section and it will be on ... . ------------------------------------- Glairflair17 wrote: "Would a 580 score on the SAT I math section be

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  :23pm and hammer out one last two-page reflection on the subject of ... final documents on the Stellar page just before 2pm rolls around. Two ... Tube videos about food and movies, browsing random articles on the internet and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  theorizing will be wildly inaccurate and the only way to really understand your ... conversationalists can quickly come up with things to say that are relevant and true ... generally of an abstract nature, and you can get pretty far on math just by

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  from 12-1 in one of the large Tang classrooms, and it ended up being ... symbols on the board, and after copying them down dutifully, Levitt ... one student $10 and names him "the dictator." That student can give as

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  by the Book, which can be found on the second floor of Hayden library. If you're a little sad that you can't actually be on campus to enjoy ... from the MIT Alumni Association's page that caught my eye... The Great

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  "]first-year-posting jitters[/annotation] and the fear of being perceived; I'm hoping to be on my ... remember being in high school reading the blogs about the brass rat, and I ... together over the summer, and it's quickly become one of my favorite

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  days, it can be ten to fifteen minutes of standing at the stop. Generally ... Steglitz, a relatively quiet and residential area on the outskirts of Berlin ... number of international grad students and postdocs, so most of the meetings

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  Wednesdays and Fridays I take a bus to the WGBH (PBS) offices and work on ... are your plans for next year???" and I internally scream "I DON'T KNOW ... up for the Fall Career Fair and are interviewing with companies

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  talking here—I couldn’t not be the neutral, helpful blogger. And I couldn ... bed, and being challenged not as much by psets as by the prospect of a ... amazing resources can fix that. I could get all the extensions and that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  , for context, I can count on one hand the total amount of people that ... fresh eyes and can understand the topics more wholly. There’s much I enjoy ... have been recently playing on repeat in my internal brain jukebox, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  and organizations on campus can apply for locker space, separate ... the files. Easy. Step two, change all the internal links on all of my ... I quick e-mailed the SysAdmins here and they kindly directed me to a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  project and basically be a grad student on training wheels. My Super ... : (Macgregor windows have screens that can't be removed -- rather sensibly, since my window is 15 stories up and falling out is not up there on my list

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  leaves (for some reason, the trees on campus are sad and brown, while the ... . The true spirit of college fall can only be captured in something far ... turnaround to meet the timeline. We quickly encountered delays, however, and by

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... . You can read about the history, which was chronicled by Matt, here, HeRe, and HERE!. Of course, pollhacking is not new, as demonstrated by the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  be interested in the topic.  Famine, Affluence, and Morality by ... note=" or at least can be a quick read. I think I read this at a slower ... are ways I can make a tangible and very consequential difference for the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  I can be the young intern who is distinctly swimming in a bra and ... bakery on the way to work.    I showered quickly, put on one of my ... than they do for $5 in the MIT vending machines"]can,[/annotation] and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022