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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an admissions officer. If they ask me what an admissions officer actually does ... . This is why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  will be you must move on and should make the most of the school you do go ... life and in this process there isn’t much they can do to help beyond

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  extremely difficult to do both. I chose theatre. But then the summer after ... , psets, long to-do lists. I've realized - better late than never - how

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  to me was: What do you want to work on during junior year? Junior Year ... data available to you at the time. What can I do better? This past week

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that ... , so we’re doing the long-distance thing for a few years while he Googles

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  we stopped for a proper break. I had to do that a couple more times ... first proper rodeo experience. I've also been able to do some good old

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  : Where do you live? Me [thinking: don't you have my address right there in ... answering questions about what I do in my free time and why I wanted to go to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  with in Simmons) and Maria. Not only do I have a cameo in this one with a ... much. I do get my own laundry machine, though. Oh! And if you're reading

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  about how engineers, not physicists, do things like carry around tools ... much faster reaction time than I do, since in the seconds it took for me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  't mean quite the same things to us as they do to our friends. And here we ... 's whiteboard And we do it damn well, too. Turns out when you put a lot of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  didn't allow us to fly our third mission, so we'll be doing that tomorrow ... to fly yet). Since Corn Dog is so fast, we're anticipating doing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  club meetings throughout CPW, or a bit of studying or problem sets to do ... lot of your questions if you do have a tough choice to make. My CPW host

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Boston. Classic.           2. Do things you think you can't. When I ... . With my host family's older brother, I went to my first Qwan Ki Do lesson

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  're sore. You're waiting for results and you want to do something about it ... then on pi day all you have to do is follow up that email or note with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  expectation that you should spend your winter doing a mini-internship, many ... "just do it", but there was no fear about going down a wrong path. Trying

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  withdrawing their application from MIT, by instructing us that they do not wish ... up-to-date. Usually we do this by deleting and remaking lists. However

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  Activities Period), the month where we can do whatever we want (be that classes ... .  It's a week-long "boot camp" during IAP where you do a lot of workshops

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  graduating. You do a quick calculation, and realize that you have had an ... a meeting." Me: "Do you know when the meeting will be over?" Swim

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  ." Every time I re-read that, I wonder what possessed me to agree to do this ... overview of go playing computers 10 tricks you can do with a hat How to tell

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  on this. For now, let's do a time warp and go back a couple hours. It ... through the trees. I do hope this nice weather stays as long as possible

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013