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• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  both counts. In my case, I tell the students to dress however they would ... I submit two essays in a doc. file? If I did so, would AOs be kind ... " would be good advice. Jacqueline wrote, "I've been in the Albertan school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I ... *. Plus, “high-school dropout” had a nice ring to it (and I would get loads ... sentence out of a book report that I wrote about Death of a Salesman in 10th

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the ... , Sean. You yourself can visit the hack website here: Waldo Map I <3

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  buy plane tickets.   The Great Biology Merger On Tuesday, I was a ... .06 this semester, so I would only be able to take 7.18 next semester when I ... (or more!) in lab working on a project that would have looked better on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street ... Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this ... , including reading for fun, dancing as much as I used to in high school, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  anything like that classroom in the movie." I actually thought the movie 4-145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I ... . The closest in number would probably be the awesome course 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  't have to know how to cook to live in a dorm with kitchens. I live in ... delivery, I eat in Boston, and sometimes I'll microwave some soup or some hot ... a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  world works In a class I took last semester, we would often be assigned ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I came into MIT not knowing what I would study, ended up going with

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  would react to being woken up at 8. I had a class that grades attendance around that time that I would have to skip. Reasons to go: Over 20 VC ... startups would have to overcome. Some of the things I learned: Fintech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to ... thinking that it was in February; I don’t know why, I didn’t even “get ... . Cecilia’s Parish in Boston, where I go every Sunday, and proudly belted out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  —we live here in the day-to-day.” mit and the cube I would be remiss not to ... in bits all around the website. I do feel funny clarifying this, but if ... , achievable goal. This helps me stay off my phone in the morning, too. I sought

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  I was graduating, my emotions revolved in a pretty binary fashion ... bathroom or living in a 115 sq ft brick oven coffin (Macgregor <3). I ... things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  didn't even get in on the first try. I had to wait until COVID-19 expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... . I'm the kind of person where I either finish the book in one sitting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... robots have yet to even come close to mimicking the human gait. In an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... several textbooks from Amazon, and I was considering buying a notebook (the ... easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  would be cool. In that case, I guess the liquid metal part of his system ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my ... According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in ... now back at MIT. I took a long nap in the library today. I can feel MIT ... !!!!!! ----- So guys, sorry for the hiatus in posting the photo contest results. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  up buying the spicy version because I prefer having a bit of a kick in ... , most of the times they were sold out in the store. I'm not sure where to ... Ok so I am very late jumping on the Trader Joe's bandwagon, but I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  primary major in science or engineering. I (like today's birthday girl) was one of these students, majoring in Management, and I had many friends in ... -science/engineering department. Michael wrote, "I'm hoping I'll be able to double-major in 6

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005