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  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  application and receiving your decision is a good time to focus on family ... . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please ... early action deferred), and you are in an American school, please try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  democratization and governance in China. Given that I'm a twig, it never ceases to ... 't be returning to my beloved 254 suite in Burton-Conner, hanging out with ... times a day. I miss MIT dearly, but feel so lucky to've experienced even

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  : how to delegate things. delegate is a fancy word meaning getting someone else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... folders. i've learned many wording tricks to use in emails to get points

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i ... go to, and where the bus stops are, and there are a couple ... pie. a few weeks ago we went to see a musical at the paramount

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  how to design and program a robot. They learned that by jumping in and ... Championships in a few days, I thought I would share a bit of my experience with ... was in Woodie Flowers’ 2.70 design class at MIT – a story for another

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  -intensive requirement for my math major, to get more exposure to proofs and real math in a ... Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise ... from a trip to the Badlands in South Dakota when I was little. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  to pass someone who is driving in your own passing lane (which is ... Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  MIT was the first place you've found a home in, and so you're reluctant ... month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group ... were going to meet along Mass Ave. I arrived at Mass Ave shortly before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  figure out what classes I wanted to take. I was registered in 10 different ... 've been rushing to finish prototypes for a project to be submitted to the ... getting much worse to slightly better and I went to MIT Medical urgent care

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  and annotated using a system called ToBI in conjunction with a software ... 't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of purgatory in which you are your own god. You have choices. You can make IAP as

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few ... 't have the chance to dance together anymore, but we still have a few things ... summer to prepare! Coming in, I had absolutely no idea how weird managing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee ... a beaver? Another interesting story. In 1914, Lester Gardner of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: [carousel image1 ... wanting to be left out, i decided to pack a towel in my backpack and also go ... to MIT. my photo album conveniently lists them in chronological order

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  adversely affect your chance of getting in; don't worry about it. A ... at really getting to know somebody. And you're right that there isn't a ... , but people have been telling me that in order to get in you MUST take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  student in the program is required to write 3 short entries for the blog ... how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case ... on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Institute Requirement. A class that all undergraduates must pass in order to ... in a computer program. (3) v. To use or operate something in a manner ... .i. To be in the process of not doing something.   Smoot - A unit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  , and necessary, to get away for short breaks. But four months is a long ... been in a position to take the semester off, to have supportive family ... longer aspire to drive a Porsche Carrera or live in a multimillion dollar

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  request a transfer to EC? I even trudged across Mass Ave in a torrential ... told me in so many words, "You're a big kid now. You know if you can ... short, and they've gotten a lot longer over time. In any case, this still

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot on the waitlist to 454 people, in the possibility that we needed to go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009