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  RA Selection Day 4

  

  . Ben answered the phone and they chatted for a little while... On our ... Today's tie: See for yourself below! An eventful day! Today, my ... Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... love for reading and keep up with it, even if I have to wait for less ... shorter wait time on popular books! Here’s my reading list for this year

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  contact information for your EC is to log in to your my.mit.edu account ... applicants to the ECs in their area. Some ECs interview for just one school so ... can do to help you get in contact with them. Don’t be afraid to ask for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for ... "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... reminded of my problem set for [annotation note="Introduction to Satellite ... feeling of crushing, immense gratitude for the opportunity to learn

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  've started to use this website called calorie count which does all the work for ... Apple oatmeal with my scary vitamin.  I go to work, and then for lunch I ... .  All you have to do is put a banana in a freezer for about a day and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to ... another possible answer is to leave school but to not move on. my friend ... dangerous mentality to have because it encourages you to become fixated on the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  dreaming up MyMIT and the blogs, and to everything else that goes on behind ... , arriving in mailboxes across the nation just in time for everyone to celebrate today's excuse for the industry to make lots of money selling

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  . When she came to visit and saw cows on campus, you can imagine her ... grounded and relevant. On those days when I wonder why I do this for a living ... made the 12-hour round trip from Boston to Ithaca, NY. When I departed

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week ... curious if I still had access to things from my old job. Because you

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  do any work on my trip (though I do hope to do a work-related visit to ... to examine for a long time, and photograph. Hong Kong After ... 's final stop was back to Malaysia, for the wedding of my friend. Above, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  did anything for it to look good on an application (and tried instead to ... process to sign up for online classes (where it relied on approval from our ... on campus, and towards the end of this past semester, she invited us to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute ... desire for such on-campus greening projects now and in the future.” ... making an impact on their community and world, keep your eyes open for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  libraries to understand cancer and disease, studied addiction, made plans for ... Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  city to city across the country, visiting all the companies doing work on ... people doing work on computers and they would talk to me, give me their ... asking me for millions to develop new products, but I don't have the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only other real conversation we had- our first day on campus, trying to figure ... in LMP (Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity) right now, trying to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  assembled and ready to take on one of the most notoriously demanding classes ... research projects we would be working on for the rest of the semester. It ... [/annotation] and testing the headbands to see if the impact on your head changed at all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three ... day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best ... still have to fit time for other activities, going to sleep, and studying

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  any programs for parents, or is this weekend geared to convincing ... 2: Is there a standardized definition for "best match" to MIT? What is ... a talent that you bring to the admissions process. For music, we have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  years before returning to the island it was born on to mate and lay eggs ... wingspans as a sort of sail, and angling the feathers on each wing's end to ... office for the long trek back to Simmons Hall. I walked and talked with

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024