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  BoA & Restricting

  

  with a Bachelor's and Master's degree from MIT in Urban Studies & ... reggae?)... awesome! Shinhwa's "Brand New" is #1 this week (I know you like ... Master's degree from MIT in Urban Studies & Planning). Commenting on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of ... deadline!), and complete it before Halloween, assuming you're in an area where we have interviewers (if you're living in, for example, Crescent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  … Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled up in a remote New Hampshire cabin with 40-ish people from MIT and ... Management), an intense four-day course for students in the Gordon

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  . In a new environment where everything feels (and is) foreign, it’s nice ... my fingers in a peace sign over her head and giggled declaring “HAPPY ... … wait for it….DARY [/annotation] in my family. Every year, without fail, I

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in ... scientific documents explaining my work.  This class always culminates in a ... event is held in Pappalardo Lab, where the sun shines brightly through the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  “adoption” in my company’s Slack. And I’m pleased to say they’ve all found new ... in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  off to work in New Zealand instead of grinding away on problem sets in ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do this semester, but in practice, it doesn't feel like it? i'm taking 6

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... mathematics. What are the chances that at some point in the last five years somebody in the UK dreamt that a loved one had died, only for that loved one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  The New York Times has had an interesting set of articles over the past couple weeks about vacation time in the U.S. versus Europe. The ... is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  Square to New House (well, more accurately, MacGregor*, but close enough ... 's already the Class of 2013! In honor of what I'm going to do during IAP ... (Todai), the most prestigious university in Japan, through a year of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  promised, celebrated his admission in December by running around the yard ... Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... creating charcoal out of waste material to prevent deforestation in the third

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  fantastic folks at the Davidson Institute and the new Davidson Academy. The ... accomplishment that experts in the field recognize as significant and has the ... wonderful things for education in this country. While I was in Reno, I also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  . Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... they took anyone's picture and name and stuck it in seamlessly. (The ... the ridiculous amounts of free food I got this week. In that particular

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  hacking is exploring the hidden ins and outs of computer systems and networks. Michael said: "Hacking per se doesn't get you in trouble -- being ... policy is that all hacks, even if not in illegal areas, are unauthorized

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of shaping new developments in the world's train networks were starting ... computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  problems. Matt notes: I'm pretty excited about the new major in Biological ... , tools, and applications in bioengineering and a survey of the bioengineering activities in current engineering disciplines at MIT. Gives students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I'm back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Internships were cancelled, in-person opportunities can no longer happen, and ... this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  easily distractible kid in a candy store. Maybe I’ll find a new hobby, a ... everything. I’m in clubs and choirs, running events, and starting (and ... heard in my life. [caption id="attachment_103438" align

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024