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  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , who will be good roommates, who take initiative, who look to be leaders ... merit aid (free registration required) On to the questions... FWD wrote ... skills weren't good enough to figure out when Caltech adopted the beaver

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  how it fails to work. The difficulty (and the value) of such an exercise ... it exists. I went to the preprofessional advising site, but I can't find information on it there. This is a program I'd like to write about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  you can come and go. You can do anything and you don’t have to do ... at the center of the room, and quietly slid to the edge of the room. Paradoxically, I was desperate to be and not to be noticed: maybe somebody would

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes ... wearing traditional clothing, and seemed to have been eagerly waiting the ... into the principal’s office to find a table filled with different Kazakh

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  ="the last day students can add a class to their schedule without a fee ... environmental engineering"]Course 1.[/annotation] So, here’s what I’ve been up to for the past month: And, before you ask, yes, I refuse to use Google

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  Happy Valentine's Day! Answers to questions received through 2PM on ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  learned about all types of making, from woodworking to 3-D printing. I was ... process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... came in to walk us through CNC machining, and another guest lecturer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  initially,” he says. “During training, we learned how to fire guns; it damaged ... . I often find myself flitting from coast to coast, but still haven ... since the beginning of June.  So I decided to take a train from Boston to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just ... ’t suppress the desire to go back just 48 hours, so I could’ve slept just a bit ... could’ve transported myself back to pre registration, to change my course

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  you have to get some initial equipment/tools and potentially travel far ... Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... of the cruft (for now 😳), I wasn’t too sure what to write about. I don

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  . when I got to college, I was initially unsure if I would double major, or ... constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... feels very tempting to put off tasks like these which require creativity

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

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  initially hesitant to try, as milk from the common cow gives me explosive ... involves many a prank and snark. During their stays, each resident is to ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  his class, he helped to initiate a canned-food drive and plan a winter ... Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... accepted into all nine schools he applied to including Stanford, Harvard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  're having fun =p) Following the "tradition," I've decided to spend this IAP ... had to do this on my own, so this isn't *technically* related to MIT but ... arranged by MIT. This IAP, I decided to follow the same format and seek out a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  initiative by an organization my professor started to provide "a cooperative ... 'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... never have to take a specific Course 6 class ever again, which I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  initial plan was to dance to Make Me Feel by Janelle Monae. It had just come ... A few weeks ago, Ayomide F. 18, better known to longtime blogreaders ... asked Ayo if she'd write up how it came to be so I could post it. She did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  warrants two blog entries. This is not because I want to hog the ... awesome little class that I like to call Toy Design. Also, if you can wrack your brains enough, you'll remember that I mentioned we were going to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there ... summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  to my identity as a woman. There’s a common theme here, though; it ... don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... as I attempt to navigate the world. I wish I had some hope to impart

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022