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  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my ... A few courses in Astrophysics Hope that's helpful! Tracy wrote, "Does MIT ... ...could I send that in along with my teacher and guidance counselor recs? Or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  ="attachment_109829" align="alignnone" width="225"] My hair has been updated in the last ... Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). I started blogging in the summer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  ’m early in my grad school journey. There are a few major differences between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing ... immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  spoilage makes them more engaging, not less there are no oracles in real ... example is learned helplessness: in the original experiment, dogs in the control group were placed in an environment where they were shocked

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that ... from actually loving it enough to achieve mastery. Playing the violin in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  hiccup in English), however, has had me scrambled in thoughts for days now ... ://youtu.be/nLSaCFlXn-g (might want to turn on english subtitles for this) In short, the film ... : Tourette syndrome. A nervous system disorder in nature, Tourette’s causes her

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... one of my physics classes. My friend Ben H. '14 was in a similarly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... 's aunt in Montana (long story; just roll with it). She lives in Hot Springs, which had a population of 544 in the 2010 census. This is about the size

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby ... PEOPLE ARE HERE which is, in fact, just as accurate as having our names up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  I've always thought about doing crew and Taekwondo (TKD) in college ... class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... Championship Cup in picture, we needed to win West Point resoundingly. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  connected in a moment. But first, let me explain...FIRST. FIRST (which stands ... founded by inventor Dean Kamen and MIT professor Woodie Flowers back in 1989 ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  about all the activities/groups that I'm involved in at MIT. However, since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally ... been involved in actually just starting from this semester. I'm the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering ... University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  by Joyce Carol Oates that we read in AP English. When I read it, I thought that it was the most obvious thing in the entire world that the ... having while listening to the radio, but nobody else in the class

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

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... undergrad degree last year in Course 6: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) stayed a fifth year at MIT this school year to earn his masters in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  biggest concern right now is hot to get my recommendations to MIT in time ... they will ever reach MIT nonetheless reach MIT in a reasonable amount of ... affected by one of the hurricanes or by the earthquake in south Asia, I wish

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  at the student center. Emmanuel is also highly active in the African ... of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show ... went on to describe his ongoing project in Ghana. He also shared with me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  't join twenty extra-curriculars because you think you have to in order to have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of ... good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the twenty some years since my dad has been in med school... Do you know any

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  fall. This summer they are mentors in Project STEEM, a program at Texas A ... Landers attended Project STEEM as high school students in 2007. (A ... valedictorian of Yantis High School in Wood County, and Landers, 2009

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009