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  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  the AP and asked if I can join Intel in my junior year and he replied no ... applying to MIT in the fall and was wondering how many SAT II tests I must ... forgot to bring it in and now school's out. I can get a hold of my guidance

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  's limited to 100 students in a lottery. So, we'll see if I can do it. I ... since you can declare yourself "undesignated." I've done a lot of thinking ... students and faculty in various departments, and I've decided that my best

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  Johnson Rink, was the Fall Career Fair. I missed in-person career fairs ... years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT. Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  engage in safe sex, and even have a library of books that you can educate ... basic plan is included in student tuition. This is something that I didn't know coming in - I thought that because I waived the extended insurance

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  in the quilt. I can always buy another shirt. MIT equation shirt ... to get rid of. Besides, I can wear those to work or game conferences in ... that even in a couple of decades, I can still look at this quilt and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body ... money. But that day, after talking to many of them, I realized how they ... startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  prepsets for this week in class, skimmed over pset1 (which I don't know how ... !!!!!!!!!!!! I PASSED. I can sit in 8.02 without any qualms. 8.02 Woke up cozy and ... 't have that safety net of PNR and I actually, well, have to do decently in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  ?*supplementary material*5)can i send in my poems,stories and ...outlines for novels?...how?where?in ... [Independent Projects] I have been doing during these gap years. Can I send in ... , can i update the admission committee about the results in feb?" We may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online retailer of my choice. In other news, Mitra recently acquired a free i

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  After 8 months, I was finally in. In the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... means I'll have to swing by the shop to make something awesome so I can ... light! I didn't take picture of the whole process, but I can walk you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  and composure and I was so, so impressed by how she handled CodeIt in ... , programming, and video games. I can't wait to see what they do in the future ... that confident in my coding skills back then, but it was something I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... happy that I live in a dorm that can mobilize within 24 hours, to go from ... admit that I was despairing a little. There are almost 300 people in New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... attended orientation/put my luggage in Burton-Conner, the dorm at which I was ... food itself (I admit to eating chocolate-dipped Oreos alone in a corner

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  by one. I don’t buy from those stores, even in Boston.  I run by the ... gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... windows to keep out the heat. I mean — obviously. In Arizona it’s hostile

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head ... . That’s why CPW (and the Admissions blogs, if you can’t visit in person ... major. In 2015, as a crimson- and short-haired freshman with glasses, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia ... company at least once to see if I might be interested in them, or them in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I ... that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  mountain hiking in a blank? how can you capture the brilliance of a sunrise ... , My interview is within 3 weeks, so I want to know how you prepared for ... season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... measurements backing up these results, how could I trust their accuracy, let ... ] (which makes sense if you think about it). In my excitement, I gripped

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023