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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  everything from college admissions, to getting a great job opportunity, to ... you each time you move on, you’re doing great. When you get to the age ... In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  the second! I feel like I’m finally starting to get math." But then, the ... days without having to get S^3 in the loop."This is a little bit like the ... times to get extensions for things like illness, too much stress, and too

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab ... It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  helps you learn to code interactively for free. We didn't get away with ... to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming ... robotic efficiency and precision". Looks incredibly useful! Right next to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT ... . (2) n. An inelegant shortcut to get something done quickly, for example ... -style device which appears unlikely to work but does anyhow. (2) A method by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  to Scheduling, Critical Path Method. I’ve been more and more interested ... main thing I want to get out of this course is concrete project ... coordinate the GEL1s. Check out their website to learn more! Our journey to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  As I’m starting to write this, I’m sitting on an airplane, my rear ... Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At ... way to the Kendall T-station. Let me give you an idea of exactly how

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling ... that much to get in the pool at Hurricane Harbor for five minutes. On ... 'll just get everything moved by 2 and then I'll have time to decorate" to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined ... next 6 months! ^ from the Infinite Corridor to 1 Infinite Loop  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Once upon a time, I developed an Instagramming problem and started to ... retreated, and I woke up to sunshine and a gentle old man painting the Boston ... can change from pleasant to ominous in a matter of minutes. And that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT ... prominent scholar in the country devoted to examining pastimes often deemed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  want to see your latest grades and any updates. It’s okay if you don ... as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... where you can send us your latest grades along with any other relevant

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  's biggest telescopes: Other perks of working at JPL: getting to meet Mohawk ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... directly led to my job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory this summer, too

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  to figure out what was wrong and get my numbers to reasonable values. A ... trying to get the microscope to focus, only to be told that we had the ... Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  need to fax materials at this point. Use traditional methods of ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... 2017, I used a Google Sheet to keep track of my college applications, and a separate Google Doc to compose my essays. Here's an example of how I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  from Kendall/MIT to Porter). Getting off campus and out of the city for ... painfully SLOW. I was reading Matt's latest entry where he talks about the 30 ... still about an hour per app, sometimes more. They tell me not to worry

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  because I set my homepage to Google News. I only did that because I didn ... extraordinarily busy (and short!) week that I will describe to you all in detail ... magazine. Google News is the best.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  seemed to get. I was initially a little hesitant to use Google Forms as ... about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative ... it getting chaotic? How do I make sure that there is variety to the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018