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  Share the joy

  

  here writing this entry. Summers are a great time to focus your energies ... -changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college ... program to a high school junior? What was great (or not so great) about it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I ... started getting interview invites from a handful of the places I applied to ... choice, but since I hadn't had time to get my pants [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  anyone local wants to know :) It's a bit embarrassing how much cool stuff ... fun to get to take advantage of it all now. 2. Tent camping It ... (Indigenous People's Day) to go camping - it's late enough in the season that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  'd also like to know how many Indian students on average get admitted into ... to answer them now... Matt's Helper asked, "What did you major in, when ... learn some hindi and of course urdu know how follows itself. its grt to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  helpful to you. We had a great crowd in Miami. The Miami meeting was one ... have never wept in front of a crowd before, but yesterday I did get pretty emotional. To those of you who joined me in the moment of silence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  chance to meet over the weekend when I wasn't slaving in lab, passed out on ... how to totally rock at life. Also, she goes to MIT. Correlation implies ... DID YOU KNOW? There are at least two KISS cover bands in the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  get first! It was a dream come true to compete in a sport I’d been ... growth. Blogging was hard — it was challenging to figure out how to start ... her family to lean on during a pretty difficult time in the pandemic

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... great time. As interns, Ian (the kid who works next to me) and I were lucky enough to get onto a team. We teamed up with the RP lab (Rapid

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... ; when everything is different, you get the chance to become someone ... you live? What do you want to major in? Who do you want to be? There

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  ’s similarly unfair how only 25 people get to take that class each year, how more ... lot of my friends in industries like big tech or finance openly admit to ... fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  gorgeous I really am in real life. As you probably know, it's kind of hard to ... it. Any images we bloggers post here need to be hosted in our Athena lockers. All MIT students get Athena accounts, which allow you to have your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  MIT grad school now, don't expect to get out with a PhD in less than 5 ... who take classes at Harvard use it to get experience in language classes ... possible to get degrees in two courses at MIT in just your undergrad years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... college applications or homework or grades, and I just get to exist. Like last night: my mom was out of town and I needed to get to my math

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  flight to los angeles to [annotation note="dope, right??? i get so many ... was not made for walking >:( i'm used to walking almost everywhere in ... and i think i'm going to have a great summer :) PlayStation is spoiling

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  celebrating innovative technology by bringing in companies to showcase their ... related to human lives and how we might mitigate or combat them with science ... Catherine Huang '10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... a trip to good ol’ South Florida, I checked in and printed out my ... Christmas, so it’s excusable, right? Cut to Line #2: Security. So I stood in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  and, like, get your PhD in doing that. 6. Why bother to photograph and ... cricket? 5. How can we best improve our nation's economy? 6. Why bother to ... becoming great friends with their neighbors early on in their MIT experience

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in ... 've discussed data and how to understand its validity. All of these posts have ... process and, to the extent possible, explain how and why we do the work we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  . Either way, there are inevitable going to be four sleeping people in the ... which books to use, but how to find other equally awesome books, journals ... , introductory paper to the major collosal paper due in December, just like four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  impression I have is that not getting an internship has much more to do with the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of ... during May if I wanted to squeeze in a respectable 8-week internship. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016