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  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  applicant. I'll tell you right up front that I attribute my success in grad school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my ... scores 2001: Pretty good, but nothing really outstanding in the applicant

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  : Lawrence Academy senior Quentin Smith works on an independent project in his office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  in area 05:32 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 By NICO PLACINO / The ... Technology in the fall. [LARA SOLT/DMN] Astronaut Buzz Aldrin did it in 1963, and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did it in 1975

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  , gets nine-tenths destroyed in World War II, has the lasting symbol of the ... "death strip" in which you can be shot on sight, houses countless tanks for East-West standoffs, reunites almost by accident in 1992, and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... . :) okay, maybe not... [that's Gullfoss in Iceland] We did a skit at the ... ." If you went, you saw me and the other bloggers in all our glory. It was

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip inspired by a friend's wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday ... Asia sometime in the future). Thailand The first stop was Thailand. I

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

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  .s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I ... … couldn’t deliver. The day after the exam, I laid in my bed for a while

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with ... of bohemian rhapsody. after that, i lost interest in vinyls. not

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter break. our belongings are still mostly sealed away in boxes and suitcases

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  just sat there and shook my head in silence. “No? What about a publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... learned in classes to create a tangible product. Did you know that Collier

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  places students in schools abroad to teach short courses ... a blog about the trip in the near future. This blog is about feeling ... , which coincided with a record-breaking cold wave in Boston. As I waited

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let's back up a moment. The (Loose) History/Background In

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  .[/annotation] In any case, I spent all semester thinking about laser-powered dopamine ... do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last ... worked vaguely in bioengineering and his research sounded cool. "Let me

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  love. This is an especially challenging task because comics live in the in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words ... see the difference between writing and drawing. Here is that script in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I ... true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  ramblings. A lot has happened in the past eighteen months. A pandemic closed ... virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of ... that later."]nourishment?[/annotation] Perhaps in response to this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I'd like to talk about exactly the opposite - deciding to live in the COVID ... trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... extracurriculars or the people who sat next to me in class. I was the proud introvert ... else in the car disagreed with my claims of being an introvert. In

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days ... , grumbling about having to make one of these posters in the first place and ... in Building 68 in the past two weeks, from least favorite to most

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  pretty lazy past two weeks, indulging in Netflix and the sun and a near-absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced consistently in a very long time! Before that, though, I was in Mexico for two months doing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016