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  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... -term health of modern astrophysics from having cultivated public support at its ... fans. My friends and I shoved cameras at each other and posed: Neil

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  for another dinner afterwards at one of my favorite restaurants ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan ... ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... of a ceramic plasma coating implement that operates at 10,000 K with a ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  I've realized that at this point I've pretty much conveyed this type of image concerning my life at MIT: While true some of the time, I ... attempts at not getting buried under mountains of work. Sometimes I fail, but

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  class at Harvard, in the Graduate School of Education (all Harvard ... ). At the end of the day, I was glad to call MIT my home (as I prefer MIT ... For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  meantime, I read applications at my house, in the middle of the woods. I used ... at - the little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and ... Sunday. One would think I'd be efficient at it by now, but I'm still

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and eating them like an actual horse 3) It's time for those of you who ... blogger training: The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  reading this post will end up at other colleges next year. If you are one of ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2017 will be available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  't offer only math and science. No, MIT isn't male-dominated ('09 is 47 ... make assumptions about applicants. At the Harvard Admissions Institute ... on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... floor, common area of main floor, thai iced tea i ordered at team lunch ... Learning division). The office was located at the end of Memorial Drive, so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was ... paint at Blick's art store, a sentence which hides a significant amount of deliberation over the like seven kinds of acrylic paint you can buy at Blick's. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT last year. ... for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super ... take a cab, and a jar of vaseline to prevent chafing. That seems like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  even in covid times. Knowing that at the end of the week I'll be able to ... really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... people"]75 degrees,[/annotation] so I took the opportunity to spend the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  practice. Yay! We grab dinner at one of the few restaurants in the area, and ... A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... -January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a ... provide a general time frame of "what's next?" -I offer all of my ... Khan (founder of Khan Academy) made at the 2012 Commencement where he

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  in a pinch. If you'd rather go outside, the snow offers oodles of ... plenty of not-for-credit offerings that usually amount to single sessions ... some of my friends from warmer climes, you may consider scarcely one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  me to a few rounds of “the ninja game,” offered us a drive ... Maggie Lloyd Class of 2012 Alumna MIT-Belgium Program Internship ... internship in another nation would be a perfect post-graduation, pre-rest-of

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  presentations at the end of the week. UPOP isn't perfect - sometimes the sheer ... point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  undergraduate degree program at another institution. Shammi wrote, "dear matt, how ... pool. Some of my friends have been saying I got in because of my citizenship and they got rejected coz of the opposite reason, that's why I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ! ================================================= It could have been any number of early mornings my freshman year at MIT ... graduation. For most of my time at the Institute, I fully believed them, using ... any of my academic classes at MIT prepared me for many the challenges I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011