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  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  After a long vacation in Southeast Asia, I'll be officially back in the swing of things tomorrow. It will be a little strange to be back (and for so many people to be speaking English), but I'm excited to begin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  Actually, I didn’t start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to mathematical concepts as “puppies.”…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  ridiculous stereotypes about MIT and MIT students. I'm a little touchy about ... trenches together... Q. If I apply to MIT and tell them I'm going to be a ... this year. Q. I'm not a super-genius. Can I still survive at MIT? A

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sam Videos Hurry, read this entry before Sam comes back from Maine and forces me to delete…

  

  why I'm willing to risk Sam's integrity and, consequently, my own life

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  official commencement page.) I'm really excited for this summer though. I ... to liven it up. I'm slowly adding some other random things to the cube ... November 2004, so I've got a handle on what I'm supposed to be doing in lab

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  were the "fathers/mothers" of the project. I'm happy to see it continue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will be a little while until all the dust settles and we can tell you more about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  weekend. I'm seeing the first signs of spring. What better way to welcome

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 6

  

  matters. Right now, I'm listening to the Three Tenors, blogging (obviously

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  've been told that sarcasm isn't funny this time of the year. I'm sorry about ... , HSMC, SUMaC, HCSSiM, and YSP. This by no means is a comprehensive list, but are a few that I'm familiar with and can think of as I'm sitting

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

  To tell the truth

  

  had said that night. I'm over that fear now, but last night's final ... presentations on MIT each year. And, for the most part, I'm generally discussing ... time for audience Q&A (which really is the most fun part), I'm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  . Students who have already graduated select the "I'm not currently attending
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  . Hector C. B. ’23: Howdies, Héctor here.  Ok, so to begin with, I'm kind of ... not, I'm only at 4 classes right now and a friend says it's okay as long ... -sense out of the way, what have I been up to? 1) UROP! I'm with the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  . Things aren't upsetting or exhausting, but exciting. I'm not sure what ... ."]MIT Confessions[/annotation] or my behavior when I'm irritable and you've happened ... so dynamic and fluid. One of them is Savoldy, an M.Eng student that was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  far I've strayed from that this summer. Work has been hard for me. I'm ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to ... -MIT workplace sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm far too opinionated for my own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  weekends, there'd always be events: a competition i'm helping run, a program for high school students i'm teaching for, a party i'm attending. there ... and whatever grownups do after work? two. at the company i'm interning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  hinged on me really enjoying physics classes, and I’m just not sure how ... listen that I'm studying black holes in class, and we're doing math, and ... gone insane, when just a week beforehand I had been talking about how I'm

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  I realistically choose one?  Well, the truth is, I’m still pretty ... physics freshman year, so that worried me a bit too. Like actually, I’m not ... approaches to how students here study/approach learning stuff, so while I’m not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022