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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sick of grad school interviews. I've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... recent trip has brought me to the San Francisco bay area to interview at UC

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  article is that the US is no longer the superpower when it comes to ... there's tremendous economic pressure to suck you away from what is perhaps ... if you go into science, especially as a woman. You have to worry about

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... since the beginning of the summer. I've done a lot of assays to explore ... to sell my organs piece by piece on the global black market, I'm pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  schools who email with the question: "What now? I don't know what to do." My ... disaster, and it's just too early to tell what the best course of action will ... hearts go out to those students and their families who have been affected

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent ... a speed-dater would agree to a real date. It was a good sign, Madan ... talk. And I'm not the only one. This seems to be one of the key rules to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just kind of relax," said Martha Merrill, dean of admission and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  students passed away. James E. Roberts Sr. was known as "Big Jimmy" to ... Jimmy memories. Two stories come to mind to exemplify what Big Jimmy meant to me. The first was freshman year. I had a crush on a sophomore on my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  assigned me to the grad student whose study he thought I'd be most helpful with. As a result, I got to know her incredibly well instead of him. She ... better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue, 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college of your choice. Also, I'm kinda trying to hype myself up over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  Though it may be difficult to believe, sometimes MIT students like to ... find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of

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

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  without the booklet as it contains, in addition to useful maps of campus and ... all 620 officially-recognized CPW events. That's enough for one to begin every 7 minutes or - more closely resembling reality - for 8 to begin on

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  that you've asked in the comments... Thanks, in part, to the transition to the new site, and my travels around the country for the office, I ... , I apologize! You've asked many questions, I'll do my best to answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  With Ben and Mollie recently answering your questions, I started to feel like a slacker... so without further ado, here are some answers to ... entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  annotation feature it's been hard not to annotate every single thing, so this ... to a video you posted last year about your room.  I can offer you some ... New House a couple of years ago due to an extensive renovation effort

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing ... forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  appliances. This poem is impossible to divorce from its color. I genuinely don’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke ... intellectual vivacity. I figured that I wanted to come out of high school an

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note='their spelling']labour[/annotation] economics”, and jointly to Angrist and Imbens for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... facing towards Pluto to collect data. Once it's finished, it will turn back

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to meet, and infinite resources to discover. Everything seemed possible and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015