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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  -- the difference in total time between air and rail is only a couple of hours when you consider the hours in advance you have to spend at the ... center of the city, right where I want to be. There's so much waiting and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  biggest things I think we want to get caught up in is the number game ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the ... is supposed to be fun; don't let the application get you even before

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  recitations to go to, so I decided, being the music lover that I am, to head over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a ... baby grand and took advantage of the opportunity to have our photos taken

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  initiative is beginning to bear fruit in the form of scholarly research ... The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... art projects (like @tinycarebot), are earnest, lovely things in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  Coupon, PDF] The last item is the one that generates the most excitement ... to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the username into ... The Next Big Mailing (NBM) is on its way out the door. Formally known

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  're available; this is mostly for the Regular Action selection committee ... I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the ... contact you or your school. That being said, it is your responsibility to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:   ... about race in education and the school-to-prison pipeline, called notes ... square.   i volunteered in a door-to-door get-out-the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means ... video game nerds. Order of the Stick D&D comes to life, basically

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started ... because the woman standing right in front of me got to take home the ... ! Those are the disco balls in space." My turn to be totally astonished. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt ... like, two-thirds of the way up the block, and I was pretty dumb in high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  . Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best ... One year ago tomorrow -- August 6, 2004 -- I started the first of six blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  thing to do at the time, in some sense it was the right thing to do at the ... was mostly luck. I was lucky that I got to take the classes that I did in the semesters that I did them. I was lucky to have gotten research

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the winter the grass is covered in hoarfrost (иней in Russian, I learned) that ... for the past four months. Winter in PA is grey trees against a warm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  direct you here. Suffice it to say that Professor Dumbledore is the reason ... my name in the blanks. Instead, we met in person to discuss my ... our understanding of the universe.  One of those winners is an MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and ... had the chance to work with the actual machinery involved in ... to. Keep in mind, there are about 50 people in my section of the class

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  Dynamics in the Tiny Bacterial Cell, in the Fall. - we toured the Broad ... marathon including Gattaca and Aliens in 6-120 Orientation is by far one of the most exciting times of the year. There's just a lot of things

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... they want things to keep getting done, they need to know the people in ... the department in charge of student groups, sole, describes their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  laugh) My primary mission is to start working on my new project in lab ... "Too Much Clue" in some of the fun that weekend. If you're interested in ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  I'm frequently asked about the students that are admitted to MIT. Who are they? What is their story? Beginning today, I'm going to be posting ... mostly come from local newspapers. The stories are pretty inspirational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  -Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment ... third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song ... loved was born with roses in her eyes." 4. Joe '08, for inviting me to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005