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

  

  before the application deadline. 2. Be nice in your emails – first ... interview questions: (1) Why do you want to go to MIT? And (2) Tell me about ... likely think you were either (1) overly confident; or (2) not that

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

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  Life slows down a bit - if you let it by Snively '11 MIT: Round 2 by ... , totaling approximately 3.2 million words. If the blogs were printed out and ... 4640 posts have been viewed approximately 7.2 million unique times, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... -related career, and I'm also scared of this myself. 2.) I am also interested in ... . 2) The nice thing about EECS is that you can go into a lot of fields

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  fact that I am now TWENTY YEARS OLD. Friday Nov 2: I found myself ... multiverse.” - Friday, November 2 On Thursday night, I had two tasks: 1) finish my Quantum pset, and 2) prepare for my Friday menu. I'm on French

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  two problems: 1) a problem which doesn't credibly exist, or 2) a problem ... 2: How will they pay? But let's assume, for a moment, that there are ...  benevolent benefactors who inhabit the halls of high tech venture capital. Explanation 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  GIRs work. (http://tinyurl.com/d2tqpbm) and I'll just go through and say ... name and 2 hour classes, table problems, and labs are the plays of the ... Course 8(Physics) and who has since changed from 6-2(EECS) to 6-3(CS) to 6

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license, I've posted the ... back to E15 to study. I stayed most nights until 2AM. The most stressful ... . As 2Am was approaching the night before the final, I went into E14 and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  /thesis" semester. The first semester was dedicated to 2.009, the capstone MechE class ... , with just 9 people doing the brainstorming, designing, and building for 2 ... during the whole ceremony At the end of the 2.5 hour long name

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  receive information about events and research opportunities. 2. You are not ... to monitor the eye movements of 1) a group of normal subjects, 2) a ... approaches particularly helpful: 1) Doing things 2) Talking to people First

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  vegetables ($2.00 per 16 oz.) doused in oyster sauce and Sriracha, digging for ... difficulty of recipe and whether or not it contained the LN2 that you ... doesn't know what peppermint bark is. 2. Trader Joe's: Fantastic bread

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  year (around 2%). It's very selective and very difficult, make sure you ... , anonymous, and sometimes involve the great dome." Pictures of: R2D2 dome

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  Membership 2) Dining Dollars 3) Tech Cash 4) Cook! 5) Cash 6) Fraternities ... 5 dorms that have dining halls where HDM is accepted: 1) Baker 2) Mc ... . Realistically, it doesn't happen as often as MIT would hope. 2) Dining Dollars

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in ... out on my physics psets, and helped me to secure the needed 85.2% (0.2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  Spanish when I want to express that idea. Which is the beauty of knowing 2 ... : Spanish has 2 useful expressions: "me gusta" and "me cae bien," which mean ... . 2. I love that you can go to the grocery store and buy olive oil by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  enough, a line with 2 people in it (as opposed to several hundred, as was ... backpack!" "Nope, I'm sorry, you can't get in." Wonderful. Security 2 ... amazing, to say the least. I found a YouTube video of them playing it 2

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  ) Numbers (First! Second! . . . Twentieth!) 2) Entry Response ---> Short ... be replaced with TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) 2) Mid ... have in common. They are: 1) Friendliness 2) Desire to help 3) Curiosity

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  . 2. Be Prepared. You shouldn't be stressed out about the interview, but ... ). Anyhow, some interesting tidbits from my interviews: 2. I had the MIT ... favorite interview question #2: "What animal best portrays your personality

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  make decisions about their classes and major. 2 - Community Service: In ... family is my home away from home in Boston.” Experience #2, a rising ... women from 12pm - 2pm on August 26th on the second floor of the Student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  's academic work is limited only by myself, I may never keep this up.2. It ... will be fine. 2. MIT is meant to be a challenging place. That's why ... , and 2) the other schools have somewhat different schedules. Beyond that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  the explanation of what a derivative is. 2) I'm exactly the other way ... . No they don't. 2) No comment. 3) Physics is so much better than math ... usually you take as long as the group takes. So when my fellow Conner 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006