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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  problems you see.” Matt Damon would travel far away from Boston get a look at extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... professors like Susan Mercott at D-Lab are focusing on water and sanitation

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4 ... -changing potential. Sam Altman (president of Y Combinator) gave a talk today at MIT ... smaller wins - developing reusable rockets, for example. Why do this at all

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  only left with two choices, neither of which I thought much of at the time. Fast forward nine months into my first week at college. I was ... at MIT, and thus I made it my goal to transfer there by the end of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  got fries while I watched, at a place with a drink named after my black ... .   Here is the inside of the Small Dome, or Lobby 7, just at the start of the Infinite Corridor. We are looking out at Massachusetts Avenue. On

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... the future, at which point the OX mark will disappear to be replaced

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  rejection. So for those of you who feel like a future at MIT is the only ... find these things at MIT, it's also easy to forget to build them. And it's equally possible to find these things, and happiness, at other universities

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  of all materials at this busy time. About Standardized Testing ... have any effect at all on your QuestBridge application. And Everything ... . Give out candy to cute trick-or-treaters at your front door. Watch a

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  have class. But mandatory attendance… 11:00 → I’m at Harvard. The light ... fascinating project. 2:00 → Lunch at Clover. Food is good. Clover French fries ... confusion. I shudder at this phrase. It’s odd to say it, odd to be here. 4

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  at MIT is my friend Julie Legault. Julie is an artist, designer, and ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  anything, for that matter, coming at me at a 45-plus-degree angle.   <-- Me spotted at the local Patagonia store  <-- So I bought real

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  East Campus at all in my short time so far, and had no reason to. The ... abstract art and doors with cats painted on them (no actual cats sadly). At ... comprehend. It might seem tough at first, following the heart rather than the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  ’m desperate to avoid blogging, and I blog whenever I should be studying. At the ... at noon on Friday to realize that I slept through my midterm exam in 18 ... interaction (and maybe better food). And liquid nitrogen ice cream is chilled at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  and don't have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard ... described them to a friend "like stacked rocks." They are delicate and hard at ... -punk adventure I read aloud to my six-year-old sister at bedtime. 8. Oak: The

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... showing him around our dorm. Back at Senior House, he made an interesting ... . Apparently, when she attended college at a certain Ivy institution in New York

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  as a team.” Sometimes, the Frosh despairs at the overwhelming routine ... the river at sunrise. At 6:55 am, six minutes later than predicted, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  milk, and at the moment it strikes the surface of the table, flash the ... arrive at Two.js. Basically, Two.js is an API that allows you to use ... summer working at an oceanographic institution (WHOI, which MIT actually

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  FAQs that QuestBridge applicants often have at this stage: Q: I am ... financial documents? A: Fax them to the MIT Financial Aid Office at 617 ... you have questions about your financial documents, email sfs at mit dot

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  for the most part electrical), the brickwork at the bus stop has a ... the time. I will say: I'm excited for sophomore year at MIT. I ... new room on 2E at East Campus, to be closer to my friends in the Toons

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  current students about what life at MIT is like nowadays. For example ... of the coffeehouse at one point, but his successor wanted to rename the ... of Car Talk (an NPR radio show about cars) spoke at their commencement

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  At 9:50 last night, Lucas ‘14 and I were walking through Building 14 ... he is very strong, so I pointed at him and announced that “he’s very ... . Finally, the window locked. I waved silently at Lucas and our two new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014