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  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At ... early (late?) 6:00 at MIT is. As I made the familiar trek past Mac ... belonged at MIT. I think that at some point in every college student

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... -part post. That being said, I’ll assume for now that academics at MIT won ... speech events, which I was actually much better at. I did this for four

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of ... to other schools that are spewing their judgments at you all of this ... that all tend to release within several days of each other. At this point

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  week. (Your mileage may vary: I'm looking at you, 6.115.) The ... cla— Stop. Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the ... for it, but the number of classes you take doesn't determine you at

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  monitoring and adjusting orientation. Life at MIT isn’t so different. You ... ; During my time at MIT so far, I've learned some valuable lessons about ... reasonably successful at most things they've put their minds to. And depending

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  my friend's room at Random Hall reading that fateful email from Ben ... is really not bad at all), just over a quarter done with my third year ... , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   ... prefer to receive it, but letters without it are at no disadvantage. We ... interviews are at no disadvantage.) If you have already interviewed with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  Program at the NRAO site in Charlottesville, Virginia. Your research topic ... to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie ... with him. Basically: we were going to go look at birds, through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a ... -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  ; At MIT, a hunger for chocolate knowledge   Jayson Lynch (center) hands out samples at an MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science tasting ... Kallari - a sustainable chocolate-making cooperative in Ecuador - spoke at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  him at a book fair in November and he told me that he was deeply ... expertise to the challenge. TIM has been taking some courses at Sloan and is ... for responses. See? On Christmas morning, I sat down at my kitchen

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  everybody mad at me. If, while reading this, you find yourself a) Upset b ... -mail Matt McGann and complain I urge you instead to just e-mail me at snively [at] mit [dot] edu and we'll discuss content and I'll go ahead and make

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  -mail at MIT lit up that day and it was hard to walk outside without hearing the word “ring” at least once. This is why I blogged it, because it was what was currently happening at MIT, and I like to blog what's going on

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a ... -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  . Remember, at the end of the day, you're still the one actually writing the ... , here's what you've all been waiting for. Use at your own risk. Your ... committee wants you to be. Admittedly, students at MIT share a lot of common

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  miss Mikey, who has left us to attend grad school at the university down ... correspondence. Here it is: So, mainly at this point I am very excited for MIT, but ... or at least the USAMO or have won some science competition or another

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent ... affiliate, WHP-CBS, was holding auditions at the Harrisburg East Mall, which ... shows that I could make time to watch during my first two years at MIT. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the ... "job" -- yes, a fun one at that, but a job nonetheless. And others don ... ?), and maybe they aren't first or even last in line at the free finals

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... we are at this crazy school on the Charles and what we're not. We are ... braggarts, grade-grubbers, or unearned wealth. You can have a life at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  ungodly hours Wednesday night finishing the 18.02 pset that was due at 1 PM ... did not get much sleep Thursday night. At all. Then I got my 8.02 test back. I lost 15 points on one question because at step number one I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006