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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HANDWRITING I HAD EVER SEEN. Each letter was very tall and narrow, and she curled the ends of her letters so that each word ... comments written in the margins and funny quotes from the professor. So, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone who comments on this and the ... : once in the late '80's and early '90's, and returned to doing it just ... response in a few days, that does not necessarily mean the EC is ignoring you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the ... (Courses 6-3 and 21M, of Random Hall): "We all know that MIT is the best there is for science and engineering, but many of the humanities

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  start five minutes past the hour."]late[/annotation]anymore, and I know it ... mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video cam while the chat room explodes with questions. I’m scribbling notes in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some <marquee> tags, but I'm afraid that if I did, my boss would laugh me out of the ... me, I'm excited. Before I could reap the joys of summer, though, I had

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  of the MIT community who have started companies or created products that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on companies and products that are directly relevant to the college search

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Every year there is a contest sponsored by East Campus called the Bad ... 's a hall) of East Campus called the Disco Dance Floor. Matt blogged ... (I am not that lame) because this is about the start-up company that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  myself, "Wow, you're so dumb. How do you even, like, get dressed in the ... to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter ... -so-secret crush on Pine, the mail client that's used on Athena. I used to only use

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  University, 1989, BA Sociology (Home of the Spartans!); University of Delaware, 1999 Masters of Public Administration (Home of The Fightin' Blue Hens AKA The Ass Kickin' Chicken!) Favorite thing about MIT: The Infinite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself ... after I ran myself and select members of the engineering department into the ground. I was going to write a blog about this, but then I took

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my ... notification in the social channel of Microsoft Teams. In my office, the ... scurry to the fourth floor. Usually we are the first ones to arrive. As

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can survive on ramen and coffee before getting scurvy, but the mundane details ... outlines and hand-wavy explanations of the topics I've covered, sort of as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  fancier back-end I could have used (unbeknownst to you all).  The last time ... really should have come back before then--I owed Chris a blog about the time I went to San Diego Comic Con to talk about the Riri Pi Day video

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  “Nobody is going to do it, if we don’t do it.” The room is quiet ... have had with many other international students at MIT, heavy with the challenge of obligation. I invited members of the EESA (Ethiopian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  math, and math with computer science. I do pure math, which will be the ... differences among the different tracks—applied math has a whole different set of ... has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... Instagrammed my food.   (In my defense, the latte art deserved preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  even a 9. That's pretty mind-blowing, though not as mind-blowing as the ... sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the ... ’s second law, the other hand stirring a vat of soon-to-be chocolate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  class once the semester starts. Of course, there will be those pesky ... take the state certification exam in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck ... . Pictures to come soon! The end of IAP also means...the 14th annual Charm

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... committing to MIT or any college for the matter. I had a strong desire to ... pretty informally, the last time I did a sport formally was in 8th grade

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  as to what the other ones were, you can easily find them! When ... because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to ... start the essay. Of course, it's different for everyone. But I found that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019