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  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  Here goes another Omnibus... sorry if I didn't get to your question ... admission office explaining what happened. I expected to get a good score for ... students where posting and I began to get a little worried. People here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  MIT, companies ranging from the likes of Facebook and Google to smaller companies ... screen as the narrator's voice warmly speaks "Welcome back to MIT Planet ... students as well as other students from all over the country flocked to MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and ... and foremost purpose of going to college is to learn, but I'm torn about

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  , became home. It’s still listed as Home in my Google Maps, and it hurts to ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  bridge to Boston. Also, like many dorms on dorm row, you can get a great ... , in the sense that you get to meet a lot of new people every year. Up to ... to get together and socialize, but Maseeh also lacks dorm wide spaces

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  . For me, it was a good decision to get a handle on the purely mechanical ... When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  method is to look where I need to be the next day, map out a rough route ... Malibu, I could get used to you.   Monday, September 8th   ... Every year our office travels all over the country to speak to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Back to Boston Recommended Orientation events

  

  Orientation-getting-to-know-you-ish WHEN: Thursday, August 31, sometime around ... I am flying back to Boston tonight (why do I always book redeyes?) and can't wait to meet all the new '10s. For the past couple of weeks, I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  wanting to engage with class material was gone. Again, big deal. Who gets ... , to “get by”, but far below what it felt like to be swimming in new ... . There’s been getting to know the new friends in my life, both at the dorm

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  guy, and it’s been going okay i guess. i get that it’s meant to be ... any more intense? do you feel like you’re getting closer to act upon ... , when i’m lining up to get food from the dining hall, no, i don’t feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  's exactly what it sounds like. Undergrads get to work with professors, Ph ... that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to ... for those who aren’t sure where to get started. There’s also a good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the humanities, listening to lectures about the humanities, going to recitations

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  gathered to recognize and remember Glorianna Davenport's 30-years of research ... upon using media to understand what people see and experience. She ... collections to construct new stories to share with others. Storytelling

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  .” Months before we get to showtime in April, the opening/closing show team ... of Trello, Google Sheets, and Slack helps us get the work organized ... from backstage, we don’t actually get to watch the show. In fact, with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... . Design is applied art. It is Design Museum Boston’s goal to show ... of the world. On October 6th I went to my second DMB event where The

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  get back into music and so this is a really cool way to do so since I ... . Cons: I have to apply and get into the class in order to take it. It's at ... there are so many cool ones and I'm having difficulty choosing what to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  would like to get in contact with them to ask further questions, please email me and I can try to get you in contact ^_^)     ... everything felt like it was meant to work that way. I tried to get back into

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  and get you on the right track before classes start and things start to ... different tools in the machine shop, we get to create our own Stirling Engine ... get to learn how to draw! I have a lot of artsy people in my family, my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... craziness that is my google calendar when I'm at MIT, I've returned with a new found drive to "look at what's beyond the hamster ball." And so I found

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  herself~ I (loosely) use the bullet journal method as a planner. Similar to ... often buy parts ourselves and get reimbursed later), so, it’s nice to have ... that description was actually a love story. They somehow manage to blend

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017