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  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I ... is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for ... 've told this to basically everybody I saw today and I feel like I'm just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• 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 / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  used indexes of chief executive compensation show close to a proportional ... the hype to see what is really going on with salaries of CEOs in the ... capitalization of the largest companies. For instance, from 1980 to 2003, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those things. December 1 Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and ... : This video of Cho Gue-Sung getting a little [annotation note="Imagine me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... field is an exaggeration. Right now, I want to get a BME minor. I'm not a ... , and MIT Pro-Choice, and am a chapter coordinator for How to Get Around

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real ... . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  misspelled words I see on applications. And, thanks to GoogleBattle, I'll tell ... thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most ... 's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008