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

  

  open Q&A. We'll take as many questions as we can and do our best to ... , Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Virginia. For a complete list of sessions, click ... MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions

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

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  with him (and they have a perfect right to do so) but rather than ... Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture ... emotional bias with a scientific eye, and to daily question and reaffirm our

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  thought we’d go into a part of MIT that is seldom seen by public eyes. You ... is even a little intimidating for me, and I’ve been a student here for a whole 76 days (but who’s counting?). Today we are venturing into

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  It all started on Monday night. I had a big French III essay due Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since ... beginning of class. I am not a coffee person. I rarely drink coffee. I do not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  'd probably do a career in something math and science. Back in the late '70s or early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into ... 's space flights have included MIT-educated astronauts, who have logged a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  this entry on those questions (a formal Questions Omnibus will follow in a few days). Sendie asked, "Hrm... how many apps do you usually ... fully evaluate and summarize a folder. We're expected to read applications

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  when I do. I got a new pair of shoes, since my old shoes were tearing at ... .5×." History. I did a little digging in old course catalogs. I might end up doing ... instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  pass, please consider just signing up for a swim class. Not only do you ... spent the first portions of classes doing a thing called mindful walks in ... didn’t think I could do it, but wanted to give it a shot anyway. I jumped

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  projects, it's very often because it's a personal project, or I'm doing ... , more often than not, I can write whatever I want and post it without a ... move it to a different file. No one says, this is a very personal blog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over ... with a similar decision next semester, when - theoretically - juniors

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  you have to do is reach the end and rest your legs for a while. For an ... Earlier this semester, I met with Junot Diaz, [annotation note="a ... future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  , compassion, curiosity and a desire to grow -- but no idea what to do with them ... be a blogger. The blogs were almost solely responsible for my ... after I comMITted; four years and eleven months after I applied to be a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  homework over CPW, you’re doing CPW wrong. Not food. You’ll get a card with ... ’ll give you a glitter fairy sticker and a sheet of bubble wrap. I experienced my CPW, two years ago, through a downpour. I was temped at Mac

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  guys usually shoot for a 1:1 gender ratio. Do you have any stats on this ... a final transcript or what?" Anon wrote, "Matt, what materials do an ... ?" No, that's the first time I've heard that. A few I have heard before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  the campus itself and the best way to do that is on foot. Even just a ... Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). Next weekend will be a busy time for us all ... , there won't be very many of them if you are each doing what interests you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  afterwards. ...and honestly, that while is just a bit too little. Anyway, after ... GERMANY!! To entertain you, though, here are a few random finals quotes that I can recall: "Do you remember 8.02? The night before the test we were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  program's history, with previous victories occurring in 1971 and 1972. As a ... -America accolades, the most in the program's history. Schannon was a First ... , theater, and, yes, sports. MIT is a member of NCAA Division I in Crew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  reading about moths and malaria and What To Do If You Meet A Jaguar, I ... you if you ask nicely. All you have to do is set up a very bright light ... Midnight. We switched off the generator and the glaring light died. A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  ="SuperUROP is a program where you do research as an undergraduate for a whole year ... 'm excited, because we're doing a lot of data collection—i.e., reading lots of legal documents—but I'm also nervous, because—wait for it—we're doing a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  ’ll call and bother them until they do. If she can’t find a really good match ... own furniture?’, ‘what is it like having a communal bathroom?’, and ‘do ... A few days ago, I called two of my dearest friends, Asia and Daymé

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020