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  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  you (this applies to other elements of your application as well). Note ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  - Professor of Political Science (middle right) The debate was moderated by ... , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  ...we mean it. To all of you waiting to hear back from other universities ... experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about ... prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  ... Once you were here, MIT offered a fine range of Courses (our numbered way ... backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  Fund which supports women UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. ItТƒфs pretty easy to apply for one of these awards, just write that you are applying for the award on your proposal coversheet. If you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  : not the 1000-1500 degrees C of red-hot metal, but ~2400 degrees of white ... cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood ... of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  and practice the creativity of applying centripetal force to poi and ... three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... 's atmosphere of absolute energy. I remember a large bouncy castle and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  than 400 people applied, a selection rate of less than 6%. The ... Yesterday, the Thiel Foundation announced the first class of the "20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows." Though actually numbering 24, all of the Fellows

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... January 6th, 2021. If you plan to apply to MIT for Regular Action, you do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... (?#@^&*!!!), all kinds of awesome and interesting things are going on ... basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That ... taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in ... fulfilled by taking 4 gym classes, or by participating in 2 seasons of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... . Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but ... ] There are leaves all over the courtyard, various shades of green to yellow

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  'scope, and reached a local maximum of success. Science - it 10% of the ... . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  .111: Principles of Chemical Science I finally took chemistry, yay! I first met ... ceremony for the School of Science. I ran into my 8.04 professors there ... while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  conveyor belt contraption. 10:53 PM – Rivers of epoxy are being applied to ... butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head ... the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  , having received his undergrad degree in '98, and is one of the most famed ... lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity on 5th East. We were soon joined by Lex '00. One of my favorite things

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  create classes in everything from "Alebgra 1" to "The Atomic Science of ... interesting offerings in this year's Spalsh course catalogue. Well, a couple of ... 's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  it is true to a certain degree. Life is full of opportunity costs ... . Maybe the same thing applies to the rest of life…or, maybe stuffing my ... The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  talk to us about campus life. After class, I took a tour of the applied ... class early to go to my UROP tour of a brain and cognitive science lab ... By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... applying for MIT, and then discussed some aspects/adjectives of this match ... apply EA. ------------------------ This is not a question, but worthy of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005