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  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... with a cute story about his first day of grad school at MIT. He told us ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  I never ended up sticking with them. Outside of School -many ... note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... Friday afternoon, but I’d always come out of it with a cool device, feeling

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  school only offered APUSH, so I went ahead and did AP Euro and AP World on ... streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  foreign schools"][/annotation] started today— much to the dismay of my ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  cause us to take back our offer of admission, but slipping too much could ... profile which gives us a bunch of info (courses offered, range of grades ... description of the school's location and local resources, etc.) Then the GC will

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  school required everyone to do some form of self-directed research project ... , who first figured out how to build such a sculpture out of business ... Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  nearest grocery store. There’s a gas station, two schools, and a cluster of ... donned my most comfortable pair of sweatpants (Manchester United sweatpants ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... from years of watching [annotation note="my favorites are coolirpa ... celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  Rhode Island School of Design. I majored in Illustration and I knew I ... photos of their loved ones and leave out food and offerings that their ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  sophomore year of high school. Even with me diving head-first into studying for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... application process has just started to wind up, but they do offer a ton of very

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  total of 6 years.) Besides the time-savings, I am excited about this program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  of Logan airport last Friday, including Celebrated Fellow Blogger Joel B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  about engineering leadership? There are a lot of different businesses out ... When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... little hazy on the distinction of what makes an engineering leader, so at

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  the spring. Two of the three freshman chem classes are only offered ... upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... , however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... friends and get ready for the next school year. A lot of first ... Happy[annotation note="now end of lol"]middle of[/annotation]July! I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  offers and picked the other guy. After all, most of the professors are ... In my last entry, Jonathan Foley asked an interesting set of ... kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30 ... Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... sets instead of papers). There is often a significant amount of assigned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  September weather? Well, with schools and businesses closed, and the house in ... obtained to relieve me of the MIT firehose-induced famine. In truth, I've been eating well, and the schoolwork hasn't affected any of my habits

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... admission to MIT. This is an unprecedented increase of approximately 62% from ... are very proud of, and grateful for, all their hard work. I also know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020