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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... Matt Damon? The actor? I thought MIT Commencement speakers were always famous alumni. How did he become this year's speaker? It sounds

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  Thomas the week before, and Ludacris is in town tonight) Last entry, I ... I'm a bit under the weather today, and I'm still working on the next ... , November 11. I saw Hot Hot Heat on a previous tour swing through Boston, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan ... the only remaining wookie. I must go now and weep gently. May my beard catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  , majored in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, and I graduated in 2006 ... in developmental neurobiology at Children’s Hospital Boston. I’ve been living in Boston since I blundered onto MIT’s campus fresh out of Columbus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... Star Market! And it feeds 5 people! Why would you ever eat in a dining ... I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts ... MIT different from other universities? How might you know whether or not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to ... .001 lecture from hell. I’m not even joking. So you know how the least fun part ... shortcut truly is. (There were actually lines in my notes that reference how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  just chill with us :) My project idea struck when I was wandering in my local contemporary art museum. I love the serenity of art museums, in ... . Starry Night in the style of Mango[/caption] I stared at the solid black

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... nail down. Have I become more independent? How have my values changed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  general feeling of panic. I, myself, only got about 5-6 hours of sleep each day last week. This is non-trivial because I like to, and usually do ... 're probably wondering why I have so much work when there are no tests until

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  inside, I really would not have picked a different major at MIT. I am SO ... Aye, I'm back with more architecture adventures. I feel like all I ever blog about is architecture stuff - but who am I kidding - it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  everyone else's blogs. I would be happy to get feedback from my readers on ... philisophical essays about MIT, I start wondering if maybe my readers would rather just see some pictures of events after all. Though I think that I would

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  for feedback in the last entry. :-) I will be creating some in-depth entries about projects as I decide what exactly to write about! In this second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  International Colleges & Universities, a higher education directory. I have a ... changes every weekday. GAMBIT Game Lab: Games created by MIT students. I ... on our website you're really just not trying. That's more of an opinion

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not ... website right now. On the off chance that you no longer remember your ... . Our office phone number is 617-253-4791. With that said, I'm now leaving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  admitted, in all likelihood. I hope that you will have another great choice ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... waitlist. What should I do now? If you are still interested in MIT, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  material in their classes. Suddenly, you fall into a spiral of “how do i even ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... , and I’m a sophomore in EECS. I also really love teaching. Unsurprisingly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... , we would accept any current teacher for the B Evaluation. I also get ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  the other teams. I put in hundreds of hours writing and test ... together in front of the curtain. I had the best seat in the house to ... -case gains”). Raw Bar was a late-in-the-day idea. I was looking over a sushi

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  It was as bad as I suspected it would be. Turns out I have 5 hasses ... interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... those has got to go. I will probably keep drumming if I make it in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008