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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  as an admissions officer is, what do MIT people do after graduating? It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  spoil it). If you do stay through the credits, do me a favor -- watch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  where do students interact with their professors outside of class?? Are ... that... I'm worried =( Do teachers even know your name? Yeah.. it's kind ... help. Mike has one question: I have one question: How do people normally

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  still doing fine. How did I go about this? Homework. Everything I learned that semester came from doing homework assignments. I would read the ... started taking me longer to do, and I found myself playing catchup into the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  's disease, nor do we expect that math and science are the only thing you ... dreams about reading applications. So, yeah, let me know how you are doing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only ... won’t do me any harm.’ ‘Ah, but I’ll differentiate you with respect to y

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  'm currently doing a 30-day photo challenge where I take at least one good photo

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you ... the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals ... into something I love (CMS) and am trying to push myself to do things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  quivering mess the first time we had to do that, and not because the water was ... to cross a body of water without doing any work at all. There's no ... mean to say is that it's probably possible to do every p-set here at

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  rice every night and do not dine out much; I’ve never had Indian food in ... ’ve never had froyo or do not like it. But my concern is: although froyo is ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  took me all day. It wasn't that I didn't want to do it. Organic ... . Lament over not having any time to do problem set. 7:35 PM: Teaching ... teaching approaches and what not to do while attempting to inhale dinner and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... need to make sure that the people they admit are able to do the work ... 's not what activities you do (or how many activities you do), but what

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... . We all love a rags-to-riches story, and so do all the writers who ... response was “I wish my head was big enough to do this”. It didn’t take long

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I ... guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you ... ’ve already made. If not, pick one, do it faster than me, and don’t look back

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... on the stage, a girl changes into a dress and back into a t-shirt. I do ... recently and ask how they are doing. It is cold outside, but the people are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  building something awesome. Some people do it through UROPs. Some people do it through clubs. Some people do it through hackathons. Hackathons are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  Who’s Been Doing This All Semester, yours truly! Movies! These are ... is: Spontaneity! I’m a huge fan of doing random things ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  quite the same number of skits, they do encompass many of the same ... have) into perspective and help you define what you want to do in an ever ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  miss their target, because they do not recognize where disappointment ... particular concern (although perhaps some of you do believe that attending MIT ... well as for those of you who do not. I challenge you to bring your plans

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Friday, November 4th 11:59pm. WIN! (Also known as, do you know how to ... process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... conditioning shock me. “We do it because we want you to be happy,” my

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008