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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to ... The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  important deadlines approach, everyone hops in to get the task done. Also ... " or "comparison" it can get tricky!  Finally, in order to test the ... ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in awhile I do get that itch to come back and write something. And thus I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling ... quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  , but first allow me to introduce myself. After growing up in Queens, NY ... mechanical engineer. I went to work for General Motors in Detroit designing ... would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  lab or get a paper published in a top journal. I have to admit this ... pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to ... being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... in my seat as I urge players to run faster, jump higher, and save the ... unconvincing win in the group stage and how disappointing it was to see that, but

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  campus to get to Walker Memorial where the entire auditorium will fill with ... upbeat music to get hyped up on my march over. Pray for me. Thanks. ... just finished gulping down a breakfast burrito. Back in high school, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  you...I should probably get back to work. My last calc midterm of the ... am sufficiently focused enough to get work done. Wish me luck with ... Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on information sent in early summer, and CPW observations if you went to CPW. In ... they're meant to be doing. There are certain mistakes in the approach to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  programming last semester which are known to both be consuming classes in their own right, and I was also taking solid-state chemistry in an effort to ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get ... on schedule to mail decisions in mid-march.) MyMIT has been pretty

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... 've come compared to where I began and I revel in the progress and the work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... East Campus devotes annually to bad ideas. Events in swing: grilling in ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  polished in interviews, now that I've experienced enough of them to have an ... in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person ... to college admissions, once you get past the surface differences.) One

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then ... brewing and we had a week to get off campus. It took a late night packing party, fueled with fruit roll ups and Costco brownies, to get through that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  , I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... life.) I've also been getting stuff together to apply to grad school. I ... to write essays about what you do in your free time -- they really don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  ’s currently at said Hatch Shell and tells me in not-so-many words to get there ... line to get in. Ruh roh. But no worries, this entry would not be as ... school year, it’s really easy to forget that you actually go to school in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to ... 's snack, if you're interested). In my infinite kindheartedness to this year ... warning before you get on the MIT Weekend Grocery Shuttle (loops around to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009