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  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  It's time to answer more questions... You should know that writing up ... answers are brief, but I hope that by publishing answers to all of your ... your question is more in-depth, you may wish to call the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

  

  7:24 — HELLO WORLD AND WELCOME TO THE 2.009 LIVE BLOG!!!!!!!! This is ... presentation. And many go on to become real products, like the Avive AED Defibrillator, which started as a 2.009 project and now is spreading to campuses

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • December 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  best mentors to guide me, like professors from the Media Lab, MIT alumni ... person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  important,” my mom agreed, bringing me back to my room. I pulled my knees ... mountainsides like trees. I got the tattoo to remember the desert. I’ve been ... stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -fail guide to cleaning my bathroom instead of writing about my most significant ... ago, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. (A brief introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  ."]staying up late[/annotation] and going to office hours and coming down with a ... , but MIT will break you down and force you to rebuild yourself, slowly ... tired. It took me all of sophomore fall to learn that difference. I was

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up the institute once again in the fall! So now you've decided to go to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  and hours to various software and machines and spray paint and glue ... So I haven’t blogged for a while - again... I’m not going to lie ... ’s like, most of it. Haven’t really gone to any big new events. Haven

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  -absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  choice to take one class outside my major but decided to stick to math ... difference is that there is more room for a self-guided pace. concretely, this ... look like problem sets, but we do not have to turn them in every week

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  . Bleary-eyed, I wake up a good half hour before my alarm and maintain enough consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  of lecture a week compared to five hours of lab time. We get to play ... hours of homework a week. It’s going to destroy me and I literally can ... minimum needed to pass your classes, usually resulting from MIT's pass

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing that leaps to ... science and engineering. As important as it is, international development ... dedicated cadre of people at MIT dedicated to changing that perception - and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  just goes to show how important it is to look beyond just your own ... is the best opportunity I have to go abroad. College is one of the most convenient times to travel, but being an MIT student can make it pretty hard to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  on what is really important or enjoyable to you without the time ... you updated when there's more to be said. Maybe about this time you ... school Class of 2006) that you know and encourage them to expand their mind

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

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  are most important to you. If you want to list more than N, feel free to ... are welcome to send updates about anything you feel it is important we ... Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  decisions to bed. The weather here was so bad that nothing moved on Friday. As ... office) and will be making their way to your mailboxes accordingly. (For those of you not familiar with the 24-hour clock, or zero-hour, that's 9

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  me to write this entry. I've spent the last 24 hours alternating ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound of roosters and step outside my door to see peacocks, cows, and stray

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on ... 'd ever wanted to go, I'd gotten to in at worst an hour; most of the time ... Francisco: not at all. My hometown is Valenzuela, an hour long commute from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  us more than half an hour to get to Porter Square!!!) to Franconia ... It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019