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  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost ... in the right direction….. ……eventually found the Hollywood Walk of Fame and saw the stars of some of my favorite actors….. He graduated

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  although there were women living in one of several independent living groups ... fraternity on campus, but without the ties of sisterhood that bind the women I ... play a similar role to that of the Graduate Residence Tutor (GRT) in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  . They buy blocks of tickets for events in the Boston area and offer them ... nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the City of Boston has to offer). This short route is shown below ... the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in ... , freshman Me walking across the Harvard Bridge in the dead of winter. More

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2012!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... can begin. Of course, all 483 or whatever events that people have at CPW are awesome. All of them. Here are some especially awesome ones that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  the societal implications of technology. I wanted to learn about ... 's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... tired. It took me all of sophomore fall to learn that difference. I was

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  least if, like me, you're a fan of both productivity hacks and science-technology ... 9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions ... 'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  engineering that was based off of my initial comment that I've never experienced ... 'm done with all of this deep discussion about admissions and learning from ... lot of time to show me things. (Each crew must have at least 2 people- a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  of the Institute, tucked tightly into an unlit cannon about to launch ... 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of ... hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of ... the ones), intimidates the part of my brain that has suffered through

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  30 days, which comes with various, non-specific benefits, and lot of ... kind of avatar defines me as a person?” Who cares? Spring semester was, in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... of tips for applicants based on interviews I have conducted. Remember

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  and pick up. My sister and I are really close, but now that both of us ... stairs of Walker Memorial and into Caving Club office. Could I have skipped ... upperclassmen in charge of the club, people I’ve come to call my friends, laugh

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  (except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on ... summer! You can resist. You have many more options of things to do with your time than you realize! One of the things that I have learned about

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  While I’m sure some of you have a good sense of what I do as an ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day ... other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us ... , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things ... /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you ... ’ve graduated, guys… Elizabeth, Course 20 class of 2013, lived in Simmons Hall

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014