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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... entering my junior year at M.I.T., I saw a notice on the student bulletin ... author of the computer book I had read at 15, Edmund Berkeley. I told him

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... maybe I'll just have to walk to LA. I'm sure it will be awesome. At any ... thing I meant to write about a long time ago: At the end of this semester

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  , following which we will drive around the Columbus area and look at Christmas lights (and point and laugh at blowup Christmas lawn ornaments). It's good ... 'd rather just pick up a minor. At the time, I was only interested in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced ... reminder of the dorm-wide pumpkin carving study break this Wednesday at 8 ... -o-lanterns at the Life is good Pumpkin Festival! In addition to jack

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  consent) arrived at 9:00 and made pleasant conversation with me about MIT ... . One semester of chemistry is a general institute requirement at MIT, and ... an explanation of atomic number and its implications at the atomic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  screwed up my back/shoulder/neck area at cheerleading camp tonight, and I kind of can't move my head. This makes sitting at my computer slightly difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... Characters, the bar/restaurant at the Kendall Square Marriot via the Infinite Corridor. Now, one of the things they give you at Orientation Check-In is the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  out our advising assignments. There are three advising options at MIT ... . Anyway, I made a stop at Barnes and Noble yesterday and picked up a new Spanish-English dictionary and now I'm fully ready to take some Spanish at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  becomes quite popular at school. Being a deskworker is the single greatest job you can get at MIT; you get paid $9 an hour to play Snood, press the ... chemistry at UIUC. Since they couldn't find a blindfold, they used their MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  the mail. After an awesome day at work (the exclusive camp we were going ... : Physics C- Mech: 5 Physics C- E/M: 5 I...am at a loss for words. I have ... tiny bit of information about using computer services at MIT. Now, if

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  at Loews in Boston Common. All summer, they are having free ... . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin ... employee at Coldstone calling me brave when I asked to try it. I should

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  of admission at top colleges. The emergence of the "national student." There are currently more students from California at MIT than from any ... ; happinessis the way." At this point, Ben and I headed off to get ready for our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  edit my application endlessly (at least until March), the edits I was ... started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice ... to look at this before publishing *cough cough* Jeremy 👀). Without

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising high school seniors ... . Learn more at https://summerscience.org/ Sophomore year was a lonely ... weeks at SSP, my priority was to make as many memories with my new friends

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  hear about the tungsten cube more than most other things.  i looked at ... before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at ... and began to erase the chalkboards. at the same time, i am also

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  some extra raps for inspiration, particularly looking at female rappers ... times. [embed]https://open.spotify.com/album/1BZoqf8Zje5nGdwZhOjAt ... comics. We looked at: Action Comics #1, the debut of Superman Lois

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  Johns Hopkins and pursuing animal prosthetics and biomedical devices at ... him close by at App State or some UNC. It was biomedical engineering and ... carefully balancing my social life at MIT. It was meant to be four years of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  , MIT makes it quite easy to cross-register for up to two classes at ... letters), administrators at Harvard and MIT will approve it, and then voila ... .  also, you tend to find people at Harvard who have chosen to dedicate a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  living at home during quarantine to when I went to live alone abroad for my remote freshman fall. I got pretty good at it, at least compared to the ... friends is actually starting a fine dining pop up series at MIT this fall

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  left: a UROP at the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies various ... permanent or constant in my time here at MIT except for blogging. Even my ... techniques they have been refining since freshman year. When I look at my code

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022