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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  thinking about doing for grad school?" ...and the emphatic answer is I DON ... will ever exist in the entire universe--but after three years of problem sets, finals, UROPs, all-nighters, super burritos, Pour House, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  class, but course 3 (Material Science) offered a solid-state chemistry ... Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their student: faculty ratio. For freshmen and prospective students, how

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking ... Larkspur a semester early and was offered a full academic scholarship to the ... quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer club sports?

  competition focused clubs have excelled at both regional and national level competitions, and some clubs have sent athletes to compete on the international ... have numerous accomplishments and aim to help each student improve in
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which ... midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the amusement of floormate Swetha '13 and with the full support of my roommate

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  + Nephew Chair of Research at the American Sports Medicine Institute, and ... Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last ... archrivals Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. The Red Sox won the rubber game

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that I have ... knew I liked robotics and what that meant academically, but even at that ... tax and accounting, and she served a bunch of other small businesses in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  biomimetics at the University of Bath in England and has collaborated with MIT ... television... well, I've declared myself that and nobody has ever contradicted ... Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... things about MIT--the hacks, the zany, nerdy students building (and ... --down-to-earth and yet on the cutting-edge with a hint of a retro sensibility. Favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree ... ) of my essays and how 20 year old me thinks about what 17 year old me ... I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  come from 48 states and dozens of countries, bringing with them all their ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... read your essays, to learn about your cultural heritage and family

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  MIT on a moment's notice and still do an okay job. And people laughed at ... 's birthday shenanigans... LBizzle asked, "How does cross registration work and ... Wellesley College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts College of Art ("Mass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  As of one week ago, it is officially[annotation note="and oh boy does the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon ... internships and got some much-less-fancy rejection emails. (Which wasn't too

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  system. Polarization At Disney World, Universal Studios and other 3-D ... that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New ... . Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... a half, since painting is allowed in Senior House and Institute White ... noodles until we get scurvy and staying up until 4AM day after day

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  and development, like Ashesi University, whose founder quit Microsoft to ... University of Ghana’s Office of Research Innovation and Development (ORID ... , who I covered last week) and therefore someone I’ve interacted with a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  ? Summer is slipping away and the crisp New England weather is looming just ... 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010 prepares to take their place as matriculated students at MIT, and future

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  cut looked like, I bought a pick and went on with life as usual ... movie (Hackers) and fell in love with the concept of Computer Science. A ... a Gibson and get the girl (Angelina Jolie). He started off simple

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  It was cold today. So cold. My dad put my winter coat in the mail and ... 11-12. This morning I woke up at 11:10, rolled over and shut off my alarm clock and slept until my cat jumped on my chest which was around 1

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008