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  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  in and said, in the most innocent voice, "Hi, yeah...we want to go to ... 're writing your essays, you don't want to be generic. You have to keep in mind ... was determined to prove that I actually did have a good essay in there

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the ... every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... don’t even need to beat this dungeon to finish the game. I could skip

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  arrangements, a meeting time/place, and everything!) Anyways, in addition to ... and nights to match up all 1,100+ of you coming this weekend with current student hosts. (If your host hasn't been in touch with you, don

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  muscles which had begun to rust in place... We arrived at Lexington just ... So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main ... night, and squeezing in doctor’s appointments wherever they fit. Helpful

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World". It's certainly interesting to travel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , 11 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. MIT Economics ... , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to South Bend - home, or one of them. I'll spend some time with my family

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  architecture that I would like to pursue in my graduate studies. [It] helped ... helped pin-point my area of interest that I wish to pursue in graduate ... the world in order to better understand how and why informal changes

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... juiced was for The Matrix: Revolutions, and don't expect to be in one again ... -Pakistan conflict and how it continues to affect even South Asians in the United

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Monday's off-day to go see Dr. Glen Fleisig and the staff at ASMI in ... practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I ... classroom than on the baseball field. I went to MIT, majored in mechanical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  with the six of us - relative novices in matters relating to the ... , she simply probes deeper in her questions and gets us to think like a ... historian, but she is not jealous of her art. In fact, she seeks to instill in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  Cambridge to Honolulu. Now, we're arranging our itineraries, finding rooms in ... (ECs) in these cities, and more. Getting to travel the country, to come ... of work to be done. So, you may ask, what are we up to right now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who ... got me to fall in love with the idea of being an MIT student. 4 years ... interest in AI and got to become the first student from my university's CS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  this isn't a bad way to find a starting point: ask me anything in the ... really got used to it. I learned a lot in 21M.302; I looked at some sheet ... , but I'm also feeling reflective. I have a lot of wisdom to share

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  , however, try to post some tidbits about life in the Bay Area!   So ... graduating seniors - I'll miss you).  Can't wait to meet 2019s in the fall! ... Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!

  

  sticker donations :) And, as always, Rory is there to inspire me in my ... I wrote lightly about scrapbooking in my coping with anxiety blog post, but I did not get to post about any of my own pages. Here is a look

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in ... . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  ! ______________________________ On a personal note, I must say that in addition to being super ... Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a ... extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  Toy Design in several months but that's not to say I haven't been heavily involved. In fact, I'd like to officially propose that MIT move this ... 'll live in the dorms, and commute to Rhode Island (about an hour) every

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  root for Team 9 (also known as Team Awesome). We're in it to win it! Our ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody ... "HappyBoard." ($1,500 worth of LEGOs, sensors, and HappyBoard). To avoid

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008