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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  see"). That's how I feel about advice: it's something that's by nature ... is good. It deserves fuel. It does not deserve the extremes of poor ... ."[/annotation] In my head, it's kind of a mash up of escuchar and mirar. You can give

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  popular venues for such events is the Hatch Shell. Not only does the Hatch Shell play host to the Boston Pops on July 4th, but it also plays host to ... sponsored by a local radio station. It's like a drive-in without the car

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  the summer - I asked someone this once and he mentioned how when it gets ... scores get first picking? Is it okay as long as I am in your range?" It ... made me think how strange it was that people expect those sort of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  your roommate does wonders. Or that it’s fine to go from talking about ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  last-minute answers. It's fashionable here to loudly announce your impending doom -- you know, it's bad luck to say good luck on opening night ... . "How about you take his 16.05 exam and he can take your 2.005 one?" "Okay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  , fewer classes allow equation sheets, so I started writing it on my hand ... seemed to think it was kind of pathetic, actually.) I even took to writing ... week (I believe it was while planning for CPW last year, and around the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  of nothing else; how long since a book has so gripped me? I am hoping ... up my pace! I almost always run alone, and I’d forgotten how lovely it ... . Maybe it’s also good for running faster? After a long long time and many

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  personally really enjoy (and the show does it really well). The dialogue and ... voice and style, I don’t even know how to describe it. I just feel at ... it then, but the lists kept growing. Here are some of the things I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  02139. It is okay if your teacher or counselor does not include the ... . If your EC has not gotten back to you, and it has been a long time (say ... and the admissions committee will not be able to see it. Preview: On

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just Alison ’23, Emily ’22, and Felix ’23. It was cool. We drew some things ... note="and having a few 2026s ask me what this team does"]past two years

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  flowed beneath the sparkling ice. It does, but I didn't find that out ... hour every day. I take the whole hour and spend it complaining about how ... The river freezes over, but it isn't frozen solid. My roommate and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  structured than it currently is and overall pretty different. how helpful was ... constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things, like art or writing, if they haven’t already been ingrained as habit. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  the coming months, do not let yourself be preoccupied about how it will ... seen firsthand how this crisis has affected their education and — more ... in that post, and to expand upon it. As Dean of Admissions and Student

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  against college admissions. Everybody assumes this is how it happens, but it ... compared a little. But how? How does a kid from private school New Jersey get ... it may help by changing the analogy. How's this:  It's not a fishing

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  enthusiasm. Plume does air pollution (fixing it, not making it). They made a ... listen, and I actually kind of enjoyed it! I can't really describe how ... overflowed its buffer in memory. But without further ado or apologies, let

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  first place was difficult. Does it take longer to process things for ... express mail your application as long as you send it by the deadline. Edward ... does not appear by the time school is again in session, have it faxed or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  . But what does it mean that the original singularity, or the singular ... that we can understand, or learn-what does it mean to say that ... the ... ? What does it mean to say that space is what expanded, stretched, flowered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  ’s attention, to tell him that it’s speech time. I excuse myself and go sit with ... 'm busy wondering how many people can say that they've talked to a ... waited in a long line to walk through metal detectors. The nice view of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  . Bryan: Hey, long time no see. How was Cambridge? Friend: I really liked it ... learning how to cook and clean and all of the other skills required of ... Engineering -- so it is possible to switch fields. And it also is possible to

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  . Beastie Boy Mike D asked, " How many people does MIT usually reject in the ... weather has been quite mild -- it was nice walking around today. After a ... Building 100000 for you binary fans) and read, among other things, about how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004