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• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  nice quotation from the Dali Lama: "There is no way to happiness; happinessis the way." At this point, Ben and I headed off to get ready for our ... "right" things to get into the "right" colleges, they will be happy, in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  , from 11 am to noon. the other class i usually went to on thursdays, 6 ... . i checked the 6.UAT website for course policy on missing class, then i ... to move. i cleared my schedule for the day—not that there was anything

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  ! Danny: I agree, but it’s so hard for me to take the easy way out. Why is ... I’d been getting, I got a cold from the first to third week of October ... definitely changed was the difficulty level -- MIT math is way harder than any

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  ….why did I come here? 1. tO eXplOrE It is often said that “college is the ... manpower (turns out it is A LOT of work to pick, gut, and transport all the ... become the best software engineer ever. After all, academics is first

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  by the river Take a nap on the Google rooftop garden Take a nap on ... With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to ... accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  a funky-looking dorm is that I can always find my way back to it by ... need it. (The one downside to 🅰️levator is that we’re not allowed to ... crashes more often than I’d like to admit, but it still gets the job done

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... temps. within it can vary by 25 degrees." Her answer, "What is the Grand ... because there was only one temple in the area The answer (question) is at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  answered by just saying the first thing that comes to mind. There is time ... For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  body is whining about the mountains of work we have to do; some ... Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a ... 's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  stairs to soak up the rising founts of ambrosia for the ears, by which I ... shelter for Wellesley friends scattered to the cold, Bostonian winds by the ... insanity native to jungles clotted around the siren shores of Winter Break

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  really miss sailing. Sailing, in my opinion, is the best PE Class you can take; I highly recommend it. MIT, btw, is the "birthplace of ... stay out of the way. But on the other hand, I'm pretty excited to chat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the ... was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... would be prepared to open my decision and see the deferral and it would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  above all takes the cake. This is quite possibly the best halloween costume...EVER. And this is quite possibly the best advertisement ever ... Now everyone raise your hands if you used to watch Saturday morning

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  India, and getting lunch with a friend in Tokyo along the way. I got to ... because I made the choice to. One of the freedoms of having a 9-5 is that I ... clear to me as of late is that I’m pretty used to getting what I want in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  't get full at SAT1 and SAT2 on MATH... Is it possible to achieve the ... either by courier mail or online? This is because the problem comes not ... interviews, however, if the nearest EC to the applicant is very far away (as in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ? Maybe. Which is why I’m sort of struggling to explain the concise but ... , 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 / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  about research he said, "The one thing all the sciences have in common is that there are still no answers to the most basic questions. Physics ... the organization of firms, inspired by his work straight out of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  to live." THING I LEARNED: hindi text is encoded using the devanagari ... learning is like money laundering for tech - by maciej ceglowski "We should ... who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  out of bed in the mornings. I love research, which is why I'm going to spend the rest of my life doing it; MIT is a pretty great place to be if ... opportunity-laden time as college. If you're going to take the easy road now

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Island, followed quickly behind by Virginia and Pennsylvania. For a ... is required. The meeting itself will last no longer than 90 minutes ... many questions as we can and do our best to answer every question fully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007