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  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award at ISEF 2003 =) There was a ... terrific homeschooled students at MIT -- and I'd bet that people could not ... at the Broad Institute!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  At 3:08pm today, we completed the preparation of the decision mailing, and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I ... presenter at a national admissions conference in the fall, where I'll try

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  -Help portion of your financial aid, at least at MIT) while at the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  discovering and applying knowledge for the benefit of society remains at the ... over the Institute. The homework ("problem sets") at MIT is designed to ... MIT community. Initiative. Opportunities abound at MIT, but they must be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  , including the Tremulant concert at TT the Bear's Place (one of the many, many ... in Copley Square, and even a party at my own house. Ultimately, though, I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... at my high school that only varsity athletes could join. I remember ... adept at sniffing out the applications that lack substance. In short, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  hard together, harder than we think at any other time of the year ... 2 fun is like how Big Game "fun" is like the "fun" at this school ... to make the numbers add up right in many different ways at the same

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  of a similar plan being implemented at MIT. Life has often felt surreal ... Denisse again. Then I called my partner at the time. I started worrying ... , looking out of my giant window at Briggs field and Simmons. It felt odd to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . For those counting at home, that means I was admitted to MIT nearly 20 ... , for those REALLY REALLY counting at home, I'm more than twice as old as ... there for similar reasons and generated this beauty. Looking back at it

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  suitable than submitting it at 11:59 pm as I do with my assignments. So here ... of teaching at MIT as well! I’ve been a TA for Single-Variable and ... at the end of Junior Year, but the people are what made me stay

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  but relenting to let me pass. I miss working at Hometown Pizza. I miss ... miss making wishes at 11:11 in English class. I miss the way my friend ... meshed at the end of the year and we’d spend every friday hanging out in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  -reflection at all this summer. Usually, when things go wrong—and things have been ... eventually concluding at the truth, which is why, often, when writing an essay ... the room I had been looking at was one in an otherwise placid dollhouse

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  that would likely never happen, but at the time, it seemed so real, and ... every day crying. It was at this time that my parents and I decided that I ... , like how losing a number of family members and friends at a young age

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... this when my 8.01L pset was due in a couple hours and it was 11:30PM at ... to me knows, but you are as free as you want to be at MIT. You can take

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6:30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  At MIT, one inevitably collects a lot of shirts. Like...a lot. There ... something with them instead of just letting them collect dust at the bottom of ... arranging my shirts in my closet at school, and didn't feel like tearing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  behind the different features. My parents and I were both shocked at my ... hope the Class of 2022 can have a Ring Delivery to celebrate at some ... to school at BU, and I try to visit her at least once a semester. I don

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to ... because of last year's internship at PlayStation, I have still not acquired ... % complete. I think that this semester, I felt like I belonged at MIT the most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  12!"][/annotation] Back at home, we use spoons and forks for ... . Back at home, if I wasn’t wearing my school uniform, I was wearing a ... to a place with an actual winter are scoffing at me right now, but cut

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... it's probably at one point or another some aspiring scientist's dream to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019