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• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  from a meeting in 37-212. My first class tomorrow is in 34-101. If you ... I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to ... was only around 70 students and the entire school was in a warehouse

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  with other students from diverse backgrounds in a colloborative manner ... helpful for many homeschooled applicants. We welcome a recommendation from a ... and other interested parties for a long time now; this is an early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  " rained down from above, containing a message... Back at team "Lost in ... exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT ... ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  school math & physics, and getting an MBA from Texas A&M Harvard ... its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a ... : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  tennis court on any of my walks to or from MacGregor. So kudos to having a ... options are far from limited. STICKERS!: Are you really a college student ... You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  on the job, and while that isn't necessarily a bad thing, students from ... Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... Science) stayed a fifth year at MIT this school year to earn his masters in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  friends/the light of day again! a photo from better days (boston harbor ... let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday ... thursday evening section of CMS.307 coincided with a 6.867 exam, so i had to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  different from high school - I don't get jealous. (okay, maybe I get a little ... [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  cryptogram, and from there, what could they be a cryptogram for? This one didn ... As you may have picked up from my post about SOPA, I'm an unashamed, unabashed law and policy geek. Before I began working at MIT, I was a Research

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  Airport, and marginally expect my life to play out like a scene from Love ... a friend from high school who is studying abroad in London this ... , where folks from RAE have organized a Microsoft-sponsored student day

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  entirely from my phone, using a mix of mobile PowerPoint and screenshotting ... is to type one up entirely from a Mac at an Apple store.   ... brothers from Des Moines that went from not knowing how to cook to starting a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  from the surrounding bushes, stole a few buttons from the Mc ... -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  stuff, and had a blast doing it...) If you’re feeling burnt out from ... latter comes from the river Bosna (and a PIE root meaning “the running ... Finnish delegation stopped him from competing in the 10,000m (a title he was

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... counselor claims that because it is a selective english school with a harsh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  intensity, bouncing from adventure to deep discussion and back again. Here’s a ... I glean as much from a classmate's perspective on the readings as I did from the readings themselves. After discussion is over, we have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  people called it a night, going upstairs to their rooms. I didn't want to call it a night just yet. I got a groupchat message from Hugo '17 asking ... ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  thought we’d go into a part of MIT that is seldom seen by public eyes. You ... is even a little intimidating for me, and I’ve been a student here for a whole 76 days (but who’s counting?). Today we are venturing into

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... at the Design Squad table Kim and a kid from Season 2 were busy ... om nom nom'd pretzels from a bar last night and you didn't. Ha.

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  from the off-campus grocery store (which isn't on the card). I also buy a ... admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of ... a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  then planning to get a PhD. Or is it that your going directly from a ... . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a lot longer (and probably a lot funnier) than this, but it is now over an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006