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  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  rest of the crowd replies "Sucks!" You can try this at any movie theater ... to see in a movie theater, if you like this sort of movie. It wasn't as ... ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  . In lab, you are randomly paired with a partner, with whom you complete ... in Loop. "How'd the lab go?" he had asked. "Did you guys finish ... easily with, "Don't worry! I can always help and I'm sure you're not bad at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  for Switzerland in less than 2 months, so you just freak out, but luckily you ask someone who did the ETH exchange the year before but in ... , just send it in now, and throughout the process you bond with the other

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... you're curious, it was an essay about Humayun's Tomb in Delhi ... additional nine hours, mostly in the middle of the night. Why, you ask? See, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  potentially excelled in. You can’t shoot for the stars if you can’t even see ... amazing in ways I can’t even begin to count. It’s so easy to fall into the ... , Olympiad medal, or another similar distinction, you were a shoo-in. If you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  professors when you’re struggling. At the very least they can point you in the ... alternative. FOOD You can freeze chicken broth in ice cubes so that it lasts and ... grain of salt. Making friends with other frosh is easy because you can be

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  ? Dumbledore: -say that you're interested in astrophysics, and ask if you can ... books was like eating REALLY GOOD CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM, in that you skim ... process as long as possible. You can do that without losing flavor because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  so forth - can we conclude that you are prepared to handle the material at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  , mirrors break when I look in them, but that is because I am so handsome that ... Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation ... currently pursuing a PhD in analytical biochemistry. Here she is on PBS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  want to Do The Thing and to convince others you can Do The Thing (MIT ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... admissions is figuring out WHY you want to put yourself through grad school in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  least one mistake in all of these maps, see if you can find it ... Maureen in Rent, ‘you dressed up as a groundhog to protest the ... in the middle of the road, sharing lanes with cars. You’d think that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  more incredible in person than you can imagine. Ditto for the fire truck ... SAFETY IN THE HANDS OF TOTAL STRANGERS? STRANGERS LIKE YOU?" (By now ... policies, this boggles my mind. Spread the word: if you get in, MIT will make

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  three tines. As you can see above, my fork's lacking in general forkiness ... here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , which have a list of each of the teams. Not only can you read all the ... choose which dorms to live in. You live with people and you make memes ... ." "Yeah. Enjoy it while you can." Saturday: Action Spoilers for First You GO

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... research position in their first year at MIT? That's right! They both can ... far as I can tell, UROPing follows a basic rule of thumb: if you want

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  -sufficiency and independence. We hope you will decide to join us in this endeavor ... . Return the enclosed referral card at once, if you have not already received ... ), Next House (which came online in the early 1980s), and the Stata Center

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... team's Credit For Reddit final project (click for hi-res), in which we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  that doesn't inspire you. You can contribute to the world as a woman in ... , and it can feel overwhelming. Call or write someone you care about; they'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’s some contents: Part 1: Hi, are you interested in teaching for Splash ... ’s worksessions. Hi, are you interested in teaching for Splash? One of the ... . You can then look through the deck of cards, and you’re trying to figure

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you ... !   November 13th, 2014    8:30am first alarm (turned off) 8

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014