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  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  the blogs is to allow our bloggers to communicate what being a student ... for this. It's a pretty good gig to be honest. Your application will be ... become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  connections to the Virginia Tech community and those who find themselves ... don't know what to say. Today, President Susan Hockfield sent this message out to the MIT community: From: Susan Hockfield Subject: Tragedy at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  %, you got to wonder. Or, should we use a supplementary essay to explain ... asked (in response to this article), "That's a cute story. Is 17 really ... years after my high school and worked for a year.can I apply to mit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  invariably leads to them finding out I’m from Nigeria, they ask variations of ... to pop up with surprising regularity. A lot of my newly made African ... referred to African-Americans right? And I was African. Was there a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  to argue until I understood why I was wrong, and I had enough of a ... experimentation, and no one has any clue why they work. I'm hoping to find that out ... number among them. I spent a lot of high school trying to jump to the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  up last weekend, when my family and I took a trip to Block Island, a ... sinking feeling that I was able to shake off by taking a few swimming ... daydreamed about what it might be like to own a yacht many years from now, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  a decision? If so, what are your remaining questions? What factors are ... you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist ... to know anything until the following week. In the meantime, May 1/2 is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... microwave clock to realize that I got up a whole hour early, so I went back to ... stymied by a recycle bin. I had to throw the e-brake and move the darned

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  gives me about 33 units to play with. I have a list of classes I ... a college student having to choose your classes. I'll talk more about ... necessary that I take this class at all. This means I'd also have to take a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first ... and not, as every tour guide everywhere ever has lied to you, because a ... important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  awesome it is to build a solar car from scratch, and how we should ... welcome you to explore MIT and find your place! Rushing to eat delectable ... At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  , leaving us with nothing. We decided to take a break from finding the cat and ... Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it's safe to say ... hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  -in, so I had to go to regular check-in and there was a really long line ... went for a bike ride and it's so beautiful outside that it inspired me to ... Cambridge for awhile to go somewhere with more trees, you will want to have a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  day here, I was more nervous than a CEO about to tell his staff that he ... amazing coffee machine that does everything from hot chocolate to a damn ... 's lounge trying to hold onto the comfort that I have grasped to

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  afterwards i can find a different field to work in i’m also still pretty sad ... how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... places, and i was too tired to look for more options: a large quant

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  technologies without a patent, to better serve public health. As someone who ... understood to have a dual meaning: simultaneously “I Hate This F–ing Place” and ... To Feast Perpetually.[/annotation] Like all my classmates, I got a

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going ... -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands ... . Also good is 99 Ways to Tell a Story. Some of us were travelling together

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  , the experience did inspire me to learn a lot more about feet and walking ... each have 26 bones and a ton of joints and muscles to provide balance and ... ” suffer from a lot of hindsight bias so i will try to avoid doing so but

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day ... throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... and trek over to the Skating Club of Boston, a 20-minute Uber-ride away

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016