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  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  applications for most of the rest of the day, listening to my new music. Tomorrow ... (remember, we're professionals); newer readers might take 30-45 minutes to fully evaluate and summarize a folder. We're expected to read applications

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

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up ... would be like to be a first semester student on campus. From there, we ... sent out an email to a dozen random (and awesome) freshmen that I know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  experience from your friends, and you just want to see what all the excitement ... to refract certain types of light to get not one rainbow - or even ... foil. Rutherford, of course, did it to get a clearer picture of atomic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  open I get to see everyone that passes by, and this is what they see from ... List,” by Jess K. ‘10, about useful things to have in your room ... grow into my answer to problem 2-3a of the new 6.046/18.410 (algorithms

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  . People usually take the minute before the fire department gets there to put ... body to Mars" is "periareion." My dorm, Burton-Conner, is the best. Even ... modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to keep your mind as single-pointedly focused on whatever you're trying to ... lives complaining about things they don't like. So, you're adding power to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  this, but your flight has been cancelled." I didn't want to believe it ... hope. The next morning I managed to get a flight out, and I was off to ... getting our fill of food, we went to the Cincinnati Reds game where they

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the ... lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... are intentionally designed to be solved by one or two people, ideally of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  headed over to room 26-100 to get in line for a sneak preview of the new ... , pro wrestling announcer Jim "J.R." Ross spoke at a colloquium hosted by ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  a college student having to choose your classes. I'll talk more about ... -world datasets, provided by the partner, to implement their own interactive web ... : Relevant to what I want to learn. It's a new class which tends to be a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  migrating back to campus, stopping by a bookstore-cafe and a riverside ... gets to refresh until it's ready for another round of equations. It's also a perfect way to see a city and/or get hopelessly lost

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  talking to your professor when it's you, them, and a few other students who ... . All your classes, however, are more similar to the recitation format ... talk to your TAs and ask them questions because participation is inherent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  's acronymal third letter! At MIT, you get to choose your own T. Most students ... program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  .  And the reward? Getting to work on and take some ownership of the ... hard, and listen to your body. That's how you pull away from the pack ... impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... awkward scenes that leave you squirming in your seat. Awkward situations at MIT arise from accidentally hitting on your TA or forgetting the name of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  a new venture to encourage students to learn about new machines ... allows Sloan MBAs to negotiate a new social contract for the workforce with ... program at MIT are only prepared to build one of those planes by the time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and ... miles to get clean water for her family. Instead, she could spend that ... blind spots, we need to confront the problems and get to know them before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  made online as a prefrosh even before CPW, thanks to the new admissions site that Ben Jones created, where we could all check in and get to know ... for high school students to join -- we had to wait until May to get our

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  of hard work by the records office staff to get it that way. Admissions ... 15). Mail Services sorts the mail and brings it by the bucketload to ... -standard size/material envelopes (DHL, FedEx, etc.) get opened by hand. Documents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  yourself that you’re positive this is the semester where you’re going to ... to access your rational, “outside view” shoulder-devil to remember the times you’ve lost your optimism as the semester has unfolded.. to try and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016