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  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of ... get an email, and I'll post another entry so you can have any missing materials sent to us. But at this point, we're only reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  their laptops on a couch after a hackathon. Again, we don't get paid to ... ’ve sent 150+ emails and made 20+ calls related to housing, because I decided not to take company housing for some reason. When I landed last weekend

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  in at a pathetic and embarrassing two (not counting the two days we get ... not, well that's what I'm going to blame it on. At any rate, the past ... streaks to feel my immune system start throwing it's hands up and shut down

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  to get kids interested science by working on fun projects.   Can ... voicecracks and so forth. However, I am happy to say this is quite false. True ... my forehead allow my friends to play connect-the-dots on the go, and my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  There are definitely perks to attending MIT. For example, at MIT I ... an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in retrospect, it might have been better to use vegetable stock because beef stock ... on Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday morning). So to procrastinate on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... , I'm in really good shape to enjoy CPW . . . well . . . I thought I was ... guess it's called a "Quiz," but they just call it that to lure us into a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  noticing you went to MIT undergrad to a lady at a coat check. So getting your ... The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to ... 'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question ... the time I was trying to answer the question, I wasn't thinking outside ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  right from the get-go, but after walking down MIT's Infinite Corridor, I ... -styled notification at the end of the Infinite, I challenged myself to find as many ... , composed of two parallel buildings, can get away with it: Also flagged for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  . Hypothesis: The older I get, the closer I come to rivaling Professor Sadoway ... the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an ... panicked tone, I'm willing to bet that most socially-competent people punch

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  ...er...girl): It's always dangerous, non-productive or you get lied to when you ask a ... more beneficial to the audience. You maximize your time and don't get as ... 1. As you apparently know already, Neil Gaiman came to speak at MIT

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  parts to get assembled. On the day of our assembly, we slugged boxes of ... ="going to therapy"]soul searching.[/annotation] I ate toast with peanut butter ... , and nicked my nails trying to sand things. I'd like to believe that all

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  quite amusing. I will try to explain this without getting too ... clothing doesn't fit me anymore. To get this joke, you have to understand the ... . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  Boston, anyway. What I'm getting at is that the trip down to Dim Sum was ... and Steer Clear Ruth ('07), Matt ('08), and I went down to Chinatown ... (supposedly) the world's third largest shark fin in its lobby. Thanks to Matt Mc

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing ... weeks before this. I wait maybe three minutes. Then I get to the table ... 'll only get to know a tiny fraction, a mere sliver of them. I feel small

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  . Not ‘some way to get rid of him’—but a way to stop trying. Not ‘some ... , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through ... to talk to me but are choosing not to because they assign low priority

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  up the group. But I couldn't let it get to me. I tried to detach my ... to do well. So I needed to get better shooting one-handed. And I threw ... meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020