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  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays ... stunned by how complete the correlation was between length and score. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  half done, so I'll answer my backlog of questions in several parts. Here ... many applicants, how many will be accepted, etc." I still haven't seen ... Students?" This is a question I answered in this post. The answer was: "We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  taught me how to use Github, which I'd always been so confused by in ... green hoodie (which I was super happy about, because I've really been in a ... got to a point where, in a moment of despair, I got up and wrote "CODING

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  that will differentiate you is how hard you work." I left feeling ... made a list in my head of the things I've made in the past few months ... gentle reminder to myself. I've been deliriously happy at this school, in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  videotape their cover of "Here In Your Arms" (solo by Kevin Schoenfelder, I ... , thesis projects), but I also learned about architecture in general ... for me everything I thought MIT would be, and more. The academics were

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I ... Notre Dame, which is located in South Bend and in whose laboratories I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  the local U that I take classes at in the morning). These clothes are ... until I move into Cambridge will quite possibly be the longest in my life ... passed without incident. Sitting in a chair in the student center lobby, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... would.       Even if you don't know Holly, you may

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  activity and had probably never ran more than a mile in my life. Imagine how ... weather is conducive for an outside jog, I highly recommend morning runs in ... about now, right? How about forcefully regulating your heart rate by

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  how you have those little oxygen masks that pop down from the ceiling in ... My first reaction to the ridiculously ridiculous airline adventure I ... need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  so fast that I could barely keep them in the picture. Dan '08 presses ... !" Dan and I in fierce concentration, swords locked together, as Andrea '07 ... . If I had to describe pika, I would describe it as a liberal, hippie

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I ... of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past ... 's a neurologist at Mass General Hospital -- but I've learned so much in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  alone how to investigate inflation in brane world models. I think that ... , and when I expressed an interest in astronomy towards the end of the ... walking in the same direction after lecture, and I ended up telling him all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  , but I was Captain Von Trapp in high school and after a hundred hours ... 't know exactly how the runner-up ended up winning so thoroughly, but I ... Abdul hits in the background. It was just then that I realized that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for ... next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in ... , robust, strengthened. As a grad student (and in the immediate afterward), I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  , which, although I have Many Nerdy Opinions about how relatively good ... , ultimately, it’s your choices that matter in both places <3) (also I don ... Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ; I had tests in three of my classes: 9.65 (Cognitive Processes), 20 ... Biological Systems). I’ve also been putting in several hours behind the ... ; GEL is no exception. In my time, I’ve noticed that at the

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  unmotivated. Ridiculous generalizations in both cases. I'll tell you this - I ... - but you would never hear someone in our office generalize an applicant ... : they have no business in the admissions process - in either direction

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005