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  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  admissions website, we will send you some information in the mail. And please ... admissions officer glances at in an application? Do you guys (officers) have ... information in the Part 1 -- name, town, school, etc. There are no numbers that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  ’m early in my grad school journey. There are a few major differences between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing was a nightmare—the day the portal opened, the website crashed almost

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby ... PEOPLE ARE HERE which is, in fact, just as accurate as having our names up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  they were participating in a Media Lab study. (Yes, we would dash from ... subject lines like “free leftover iceberg lettuce in E52”; in fact, a single TikTok in 2025 delivers more dopamine than we would experience in an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage and back into my dorm room. Moving-in day is my second ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  their numbers are growing. When you come on campus, in fact, it's almost ... combating poverty, improving healthcare in Third World countries, or anything in between, MIT is pushing international development forward on pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in Killian Court under the sun, blogging about MIT (with not a care in the ... have their merits, but in all honesty, most people here use laptops. If

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’ll reopen my firehose/Courseroad/[annotation note="website that shows which ... ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... writing class"]email[/annotation] or Google Form in early August, then

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  life got turned upside down", I figured I might join in with the chaos ... make custom cardpacks with this website for good inside jokes Settlers ... feature calm task-based game Minecraft - got a project in the works :o

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or ... tradition.  Every freshman class has a Ring Committee, who put in tons of time ... specific set design). In February of sophomore year, the design is announced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... Public Library, and in the company of all those who ran before and with ... , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  Shepherds at some point in her life.   Isn’t this invitation ... to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it ... iced coffee in one hand. Fun fact: Harvard classes start at 7 minutes

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  course, our very own Admissions blogs and MIT websites. This took a ... also concern elephant-in-the-room topics--drinking, sexual encounters, etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized ... cell phone buzzing in my pocket and loading the text message my brother ... your covers so you're not in public when you find out. You might want to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  (100 yards) in droves, and receive a free t-shirt as a reward for not ... badly sprained and a small bone in your foot was broken. Courtesy of a ... with the wheelie chair and the ramp, which landed you in an x

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... to get them to you in time? A: I previously answered this incorrectly

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in Kendall Square in Cambridge-- a global innovation hotspot (and in MIT ... .96 (Management in Engineering). Our class was split between graduate and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  So I'm currently at NACAC in New Orleans. I'll post more about the ... months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in ... community involvement on our website via the blogs several years ago. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  freshmen are just starting to filter in due to FPOPs or international ... what in the world we're saying.  No, maybe you're sick!  Or down!  Or ... , in my mind, is the mega-resource.  You can go to them for just about

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011