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  Quick update

  

  midyear report. Q. Can I still send in extra materials? A. While it is too ... I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received ... . Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... of realizing somewhere in the middle that I had FOUR finals to prepare ... extension during a week in which I was almost too stressed out to move, but it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  it because I was running 3 miles on a treadmill in the Burton ... last time I used it) but, thanks in part to the Undergraduate Association, MIT now gets Comedy Central! Do you know what that means? I can watch

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  I miss having in-person meetings. I can’t just wander through the ... -flung meeting in the rain. I want February 2020 frozen in amber. I want everything ... things this fall. I’ll be living on campus in Simmons with a handful of my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what ... make sense of all of this in just one short week. This is what I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  , like Firefox with adblocker enabled. In that case you can click here. ... two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so you can only see it if you want to and you highlight the text:  

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  're interested in watching Lulu, Kim and I graduate, you can watch the webcast ... . Let that sink in for a minute.) All I know is that this morning, for the last time, I put my Brass Rat on facing up. In a couple of hours, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  , fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future ... 'd go over them in this blog post and see which subset of them I ... wasn't very creative in the shows that I wanted to watch...I did binge

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly suggest ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  him. Well, I can do that too. I got a little worried that the fire ... , "no, I do this EVERY TIME." As you can see, Gabe does look pretty ... '10 in the background. Anyway, I gave her some cocoa to thank her for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... Washington, and I'm from the valley in Oregon, so we feel the same way on days

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  &A, will run about 90 minutes. You can RSVP at brownmityale.org. In addition ... admissions. Counselors can RSVP at brownmityale.org. I know that many blog readers are seniors, so for you, I have this mission (if you are in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  meeting everyone who will be there (here)! In the meantime, I'm off to a ... about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a powerpoint presentation thousands of miles away. I remember hearing talk around

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free ... minutes longer than Adam would have liked (I can't help it, I have a soft ... So, I'm from Columbus, Ohio, home of Jungle Jack Hanna and the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in ... I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite ... MIT in a designated space marked off w/electrical tape. Then I rigged up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  I know that you all hate us right now and I don't blame you. I would too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really ... say "post it in Ben's blog so they know." As soon as he told me I moved

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  to compete. I [annotation note="we live in a society, man"]can't fix ... in my emails.I do not know how not to Feel, Think, or have things Seem To Me. I am self-conscious about the number of "I"s in my writing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  (Hopefully I can write a blog about it sometime soon). Either way, in joining ... what's going on both in my life and in MIT at general! (and one day I ... what my first year here was like. In the video I skipped explaining a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  international students.   This past week, I attended an annual conference on international admissions (I attended last year as well). The ... applications. As always, it was quite fascinating; I learned a lot, met some good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  ;:) In any case, I must return to my summer before winter rolls around ... same place where Sandy Tenorio <33 works. I was working at the STEM ... physics and decision making involved? I could definitely say that in many

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012