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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  build a robot that could win it. And at the end of the six weeks, there ... arrived at MITES, there were a bunch of speakers talking about “community ... during your flight,” she said. I read it somewhere over New York, holding

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  better portion of my eighteen years. I'm back at MIT now -- got here the ... in Cambridge, a new land of activity and opportunity, all the while ... the same principle of a resident versus a tourist. If you live in New

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  because of which they offered him/her a slot - that is nothing to scoff at ... . We had some reports from the New York City party. Michael wrote, The ... literature (although some clearly were not good in studies at all - one of them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  and physics curriculum of various grade levels. Each class brought new ... computer science, math, and physics at Liceo Classico Ugo Foscolo. Day 1: Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... ." (Recognizing my male privilege), I am quite impressed at the number of runners in ... New York in 2015 to start her residency with mine, capping off 4 years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  haunting. After Loomis, I headed down the various parkways towards New York ... . The meeting went well - lots of questions at the end, so we were there ... , got coffee in the lobby, and checked out of the Hyatt (still no sign of

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  national average). From there he went to a New York law firm, then to the NHL ... one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  ice. Coincidentally, right after I returned to the US, the New York Times ran an article on shaved ice in New York City (close, but no cigar ... For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... MIT, at least with your scores and exhaustion of the math curriculum. However, you should try to take some kind of physics if you can, if not at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  world. Jonny was also just profiled in the New York Times on the occasion of the publication of his new book (!!!), Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a ... The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  rejection. So for those of you who feel like a future at MIT is the only ... 's equally possible to find these things, and happiness, at other universities ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this ... another blow to my confidence. I went and hid in a corner of the university

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of ... course of my life. Sarah and I moved, freshly affianced, to New Orleans. I ... joke that maybe still exists at MIT: "Our tests are like, 'The density of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  the universe at a quantum level. I don't know. I'm an engineer, not a ... .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  Fisher v. University of Texas back in 2015 (brief).']amicus brief ... of precedent allowing colleges and universities to consider race as one ... science. As such, American businesses at the forefront of innovation in STEM

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food. Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... of a school abroad. My question is: Will this letter put me at a ... taking classes for credit at a local university? What should they do about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  the day. Better yet, I had two weeks of days like this before helping at ... .05 (biochemistry) final. This was my only test of finals week, so I spent every ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... pick out details on Pluto as small as the ponds in New York City ... went over New Zealand on June 29 to catch the stellar occultation of of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015