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  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  Here are the answers to the questions you've left in the comments of ... , the depth and breadth of ECs varies from school to school in the same ... you get to know the individual contexts of thousands of intl. apps? May

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  , for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit ... pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  looking through pictures of the past year, from fancy formal pictures to pictures of derping around with friends. I re-listened to the songs we PSetted and danced to. I thought of the bajillion people I met at MIT and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  , building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY ... and there's also some doors that lead to Stata or the Green Building ... in 56 as well. Here's a shot of the hallway from the other end. That

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you ... the bare minimum of what’s on my to-do list, and I’m not even trying to ... .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  you to visit the MIT Museum and see his work in person. Here's one of ... I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a ... something that would grace the presence of Arthur Ganson! (http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  some of the slight mishaps I've had to deal with stemming from my brain ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  to watch important football games (read: all of them) during dinner. But come to think of it, the only thing lamer* than my parents' rule ... to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  thought, it was also fascinating to see the reactions of people when they ... during the rough spots of the semester, when every second had to be used at ... same classes (often the timing of our schedules were different, but our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  group of friends who understand me. I'm continuing on with the Design ... Symposium, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the MIT AeroAstro department ... , speaking from the audience during the Q/A session of the astronaut panel on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  a famous photo of me in the news. I don’t want to post it directly ... starting to be on the radar of people I knew. But there’s a pretty clear ... (they/them or she/her), class of 2007 and one of the earliest MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... commonly) are free to put as much or as little money as desired on the card ... even going to a fast food restaurant. The food in the residential halls

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  ; edit: some of you appear to have had multiple copies of the email sent ... A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets ... design stuff. Then I run back to the dorm, finish my psets and study for my ... until 6. After UROP I am entrenched in CPW stuff for the rest of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ...  about what it is like to not be well at the end of a semester, and it is not fun ... to the committee: "I have spent so much of my time at MIT writing, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall to study computer science. Still, becoming one of up to 141 presidential scholars in the country each year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at ... be pretty rough for me. To take the classes I wanted, I sort of had to ... Engineering and Computer Science, since lots of the classes I want to take as a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  , it’s hard to wrap your head around all the sheer size of a lofty goal ... quotes from the lovely captain of the lightweight women’s crew team, Sharon. I’ve compiled the corniest collection of these quotes into power

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  doors to Boston University’s Metcalf Hall. Along with the hundreds of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... a detailed overview of these projects). To give you some of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the ... ) during the last dinner of the week in Unos! Can’t wait to be counselors

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018