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  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 / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  /weekend (maybe both, I’ve got a lot of work to do this weekend). Just kidding. Unfortunately, the only ones of you who might’ve believed that my post ended there ... wasn’t one of my intentions. However, I can’t say now that I regret it at

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use of "prease" if Biology has taught me anything) and finally become fully ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... , people kind of freak out. So they want us EMTs to be familiar with the ... a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

      After several hours of discussing so many good ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂 ... enthusiast, lover of her homeland’s native birds, and always on the lookout for

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  In 1984, a book lots of people have read, the people in control made ... went to this Well Known School of Three Letters. That's like another life ... each part of my life since I left this school. Too bad for you if you are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn ... of a combination of P/NR, taking easier classes, and just an ... 's New Groove for the first time with a bunch of people I barely knew, all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths in World War I. It ... test will continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is ... can swim to one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself ... high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it ... going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  my apartment. It was bizarre in a way because there was a part of it ... on and off public transit with ease. This felt like the kind of stuff ... felt a bundle of knots in my stomach and I braced myself because it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  . The gym is usually empty when I come down, however, so the lack of ... feeling of getting stronger and lifting big objects. I love the way your muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is ... student community made up of some of the world’s most intelligent and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies ... , pleasure, and community building," and anyone of any level could apply as ... me refine it a bit. They asked me what the purpose of my request was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and regret my choice of footwear (slides). i start to wonder if anything has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  't actually build it, we paid a company lots of money to build it, but it ... 's all sorts of other stuff, but that's not what I'm here to write about. I ... cross stitching livestream for all of the MIT admits in the class of 2024

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn't a ... "]was;[/annotation] people change, and people especially change over 4 years of college. What ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600 ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  on friday, loud, incessant bangs and whirrs of the never ... and tests swirl in my head. they make me forget what's outside of campus ... for just one week and breathe a different kind of air. it's almost

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019