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• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Yesterday's New York Times had a nice piece about MIT alum Pat Mc ... MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  factor." MIT was one of the schools I applied to because it was "that ... 'd never met anyone from MIT until my MIT interview. Still, I applied. On ... school) trying to get me to go there. I didn't get into MIT." (Phone is no

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I'll do an entry on MIT campus legends, if I can recognize enough of them ... expansive issues like international students and funny/unusual MIT stories

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  important point about MIT. At many universities, policy-makers act under the ... them personally? Anyone who tried to do this at MIT would run into ... grad students who were MIT undergrads Back In The Day, the number of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  department at MIT interests you and why?'" First, I should note that it has no ... - remember that we have no quotas for majors, which is why you apply to MIT ... : "Should I have my November scores rushed to MIT?" And Sarah Bana followed

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining ... terrific universities (including MIT). I never aspired to have a career in ... , motivated, and exciting young people who are applying to places like MIT

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  See, MIT has these nifty basements that interconnect with each other ... along MIT's basement paths and provide your friendly lurkers (i.e., me ... custodian who works for MIT's Department of Facilities. He and a co

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  too. Tonight I didn't have any "p-sets" (MIT slang for "problem sets") to "tool" (MIT slang for "work fastidiously") on, so I played this game ... midway to check out Alicia '06 performing in the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club

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

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  (mellophone, MIT '09), all recently graduated from my high school. It turns out ... Boston was. Well, obviously, the answer to that is "visit MIT," so we took ... three or four random facts I know about MIT. "Due to a zoning ordinance

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  -back-at-the-ex MIT application. One thing I forgot to mention is that it didn't entirely work -- I ran into him a few days after getting my MIT letter ... ! Did you hear that I got into MIT?" (I'm so subtle. It's a gift.) And he

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  norm. Over in Matt's blog, there was a question about why MIT is on the ... had something to add to it: Most people will tell you that MIT has an ... articles ever written about MIT by an outsider (and look for the familiar

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  An MIT '09 emailed me today and asked if MIT had its own radio ... WTBS [now TBS] for his station, and contacted the MIT radio station with ... loophole made possible by the MIT station's recently-obtained non

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  requirement was, in fact, one of the top reasons I didn't comMIT till late April ... change when you come to MIT. Maybe you won’t be that person who went from ... self-misconceptions. Learn to change. It’s essential. MIT is a pressure

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to ... actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer ... * MIT offers this super duper cool opportunity to cross-register at 3

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... queer at MIT and in Senior Haus. We discussed resources on campus, like ... your home here at MIT. Skeptical Festival This one’s kind of a special

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my ... , but three years ago, I wouldn’t think MIT was the “right” college to ... , perhaps I would not have applied to MIT, but rather a college that was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  freshmen are just beginning their MIT journey and everyone is asking "what ... my time off MIT campus and am only 3 units above the credit cutoff to ... 've been in a while. Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not 'MIT' enough to blog

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

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  The first sentence is always the hardest. At MIT, however, it came ... of a mysterious domain. MIT’s Big Dome shrank to a tiny dot a million ... events reassured me that MIT was the place where all was available and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked ... concluding that MIT is clearly better. Anyways, September 2nd, the date of the event, also happened to be Registration Day here at MIT, but since

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  guess I'm a blogger now. Also apparently I'm a real life MIT student now ... the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I ... happen, and it happens very quickly. So I'm here at MIT, taking actual

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014