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• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  front page of The Tech. Because, really, if you're going to run a marathon, you're probably going to look more like me than YiOu at the end of it ... ******@mit.edu Subject: Wunderbar! Hi Sam, I saw your photo on the paper today. It is great

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  's awesome to go to school with über-geniuses, even if (especially if) you're ... participating in the IMO, Lander went on to Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in math ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow ... or otherwise, if there is anything we can do to help you make your ... For next year's prospective applicants: This week, I'm out on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  on Independence Day every year. He very kindly offered to take myself ... decided to go on a camping trip at the beginning of the week and spent the ... up to trivia[/caption] I'm finishing up this post on the first day of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  to put bikes in it," Cote recalled. Two weeks after arriving on campus ... sports -- particularly the sport they are working on -- tend to be far more ... significance of each new data set to the Specialized team. One of the company

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  executive functioning: a (relative) inability to follow-through on the idea, i ... this publicly, to your benefit, dear reader."]even to myself ... likes to say, your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went. The last time I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  your understanding of dynamic programming and pushes you to confidently ... ="Live On Stage Theatre, a theatre group which runs a new contemporary ... and i popped down to one of the halls at the new england conservatory to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  ’s helped to ground me, I think, and give me perspective on who I am and who I ... , and that’s good. I’m pleased to have been able to fill 2020 with new ... course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... ." Viksit, I can't tell you what your chances are of admission to MIT, because ... College Confidential and the like might lead you to believe otherwise. Your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  battles every single day! Trying to chase your dreams while fighting visible ... ): “...tell your friends to pull up.” This is not just a black peoples’ issue ... everything that’s going on. Many of us have had to unplug from social media and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on Gradescope. New UROP I switched [annotation note="Undergraduate Research ... Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  ’t get to any sites that ended with .mit.edu whereas if you were on your ... network, leaving everyone on the network (including myself) limited to accessing sites on the network and those on the outside unable to access the

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  for American Idol 2, but I don't think he got to appear on television as ... on my blog (readership roughly equal to that of the Washington Times ... buyer's card, good for 20% off your next purchase of up to $200. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my MacBook, but let me tell you that HD video is not kind to CPUs. On the plus side ... to start 3.091 (Introduction to Solid State Chemistry) over on Open

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on ... you're friends with, because you're on campus, and all the undergrads ... went to class with them, worked on problem sets and projects with them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• 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
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  to focus on symbols when the body wanted only to escape to bed. I began to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my ... new life, break down from a petty virus. I could do well on exams

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  appreciate your having been able to wait with us into the early summer. This ... schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... This afternoon, we notified the 64 students remaining on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  to me, and I don't want to forget about them. Last on-campus class: 6 ... Starbucks account would pay for everybody to get the extra stars. On Wednesday ... to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020