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• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  in the next month, because once Thanksgiving hits, things start to get ... . Neighbours. He had retired to the town next to mine. I don't remember much from ... deadline to contact your alumni interviewer (Educational Counselor, or EC) is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  space robots. I remember friends teaching me how to handle liquid ... This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  excellence.  You need to care deeply about getting something right and also ... inevitably will have disagreements; you'll need to debate and challenge your ... look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  sent their replies, colleges will determine if they need to go to their waitlist or not, and if so, how many students they need to admit. At this ... this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Concert. Once again, the MIT radio station was able to patch in (and archive ... Every year, MIT brings to campus a national act to headline a big ... tuesday 1987: Squeeze 1986: Ministry / Face to Face 1985: R.E.M. 1984: Cheap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  off steam when I'm frustrated or need a way to vent, or when I'm hanging ... to run rehearsals, the age-old phrases like "I need this to be at my ... there are places I need to improve—I need to look up from my music more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of things that you don't need to sign up for. I went into this IAP with no plans except to have as much fun as possible. Having an empty calendar

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to strike") or "frappe" ("iced"). Float: You need soda [soda = pop = coke

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  . Nice. She asks if I need a few minutes to lie down, but I’m already ... need to appreciate them. I pack a few clothes, since I've rather ... library book that I need to return, and leave to deliver my cards. One of my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  immediately follow it with another test that I would need to study copiously for ... left 3 days to study for two classes, each with finals I needed to ace ... , and this was going to be too much. Absolute best outcome from this was

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  , don’t sweat it too much. Freshmen don't really need to find internships ... you don’t know what business casual means, much less how to find a job ... summer. I wanted to spend time with my family, and I needed to get off

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  night. It was like hitting a huge, much-needed reset button on my life ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... finals week rolled around, I was desperate to be done. I stumbled through 1

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  -looking appearance, and there's generally not as much freedom to make modifications to ... . Not much "normal" there. The people who are attracted to Simmons are ... . East Campus does have parties (um, Steer Roast?), but they tend to be a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  Optimus Prime can be a truck or a robot depending on what he needs to do, a ... as long with people as they need. I have tutorial once per week. All ... drinking that soda. Thanks to Shilpa for telling me that dubious bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  abstractions, which are usually pretty enjoyable to reason about; it’s only much ... college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in our suite lounge. Once Sam finally went to bed around 3:00, I was able

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  floor when we realized that one has to pay a ridiculous entrance fee up ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... ] From: Dan Kirsch To: [Burton Conner Discussion] Subject: Massages tonight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  because I don't really count the liveblog yesterday as an entry so much as a ... hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... , I'm in really good shape to enjoy CPW . . . well . . . I thought I was

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... still about an hour per app, sometimes more. They tell me not to worry ... that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004