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• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the flights out of my local airport were cancelled today and I have attendance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for ... sleep, which sort of sucked. It did, however, give me a little bit of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  of them attend universities within a 200-mile radius.) Good morning, I ... importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  was done, I decided I'd drive through Tacoma and get a sense of the town since, yes, we do get applicants from this neck of the woods, and I like to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  : the view from on top of Cambridge's tallest building. The MIT Radio ... stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of ... . (All the beautiful photos in the rest of this blog post are by Leif C

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... spent my summer days working at Hasbro. I could've chosen a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  once again made the NCAA (Division III) tournament! You can follow all of ... Debate Team of Adam Goldstein ’10 and Bill Magnuson ’09 won the ... debate tournament in North America" -- by defeating McGill University in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow ... path. And somehow I made it to the other side of campus. Somehow. But

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  a great degree of compassion and commitment, and I greatly look ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief taste of what to expect from me over the coming weeks: Famous

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  case the last three years of blogging and my recent distress over ... to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and ... goals have clearly shifted quite a bit. This is partially due to a year of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  degree of instructor interaction; some really great professors (J. King, T ... by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... hours of lecture, 2 hours of “Scientific Communication” class, 8 hours of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially ... check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there actually are. Also, summer is sort of nebulously defined for me as an MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of papers, mixing small volumes of colorless liquids in the lab -- the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States ... , and she is an absolutely fascinating speaker. She has done decades of research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren't offered admission, you're just as amazing. I regret that we won't be able to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  anticipated) I had a list of names and numbers of people who had offered to help ... scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of ... tomorrow" meant "have 520 hamburgers, 68 dogs, a corresponding number of buns

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word: cavernous cement cylinders wreathed in shadows and coated in a moldy film of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015