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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  students do. But that's not the case; admissions is a year-round job, and while we're not doing any admitting over the summer, there is still a lot ... . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  are you doing?" "Oh, a paper for my Art History class." "What school ... a foldable easel and a bag of paintbrushes slung over his shoulder ... up!" An attractive young woman clad in a white cotton dress nudged the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  ™ University, I do not have dorm-mates, nor have I seen more than a few pictures ... exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially since I’ve become a real-life potato since quarantine started and things

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  can do that, look! The record is only 14, and you get an hour and a half ... said "Do you know the rules? As many hot dogs as possible, an hour and a ... I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  and incoherent crap at the foot of the reader. In doing so, a tiny part ... readings and assignments. In this course you will do a great deal of reading ... documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  life when you do.** All this is of course a lot easier said than done ... often very good quality. I think there are a lot of people who can do very ... thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  having a painted room over a white one without having to do any work? Mike ... , but I wonder how hard it is to keep a pet at college. Do you have a pet? If not, do you know of any other blogger that's written about having a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... well (and is volunteering to do this in their free time). It’s also a ... answer.   3a. But how do I talk about myself and what if I’m not

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  and it became a game of "So what do you love the least?", like asking to ... 'm getting to a point where I'm content with the amount of effort I'm doing ... like..12:30 AM during a calm, peaceful pset night I didn't do anything

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  choose from to do a research project on. I scrolled up and down the list ... continuing my search for a UROP and finding one that I could do over the summer ... do much. It was a test batch of particle I made so that I could learn

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  make it to class (mostly) on time? What routes do I walk on a regular basis? Which do I walk on a whim? To answer such burning questions, I ... As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  large my web extended, how many people I actually do consider a friend. I ... doing okay? How are you feeling? What's your emotional state? I find the ... many people do care about me, people I wouldn't thought to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni ... (which should also be fun for you to do). In my next blog entry in a few ... , I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  to do this for a living?' He said I'd have to meet this up ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David Wells, who pitched 8 1/3 solid innings. After a Gary Sheffield single in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  year. Do a handstand - Incomplete. I didn't focus that much on core ... do this but maybe next year I'll focus a lot more on flexibility. Get ... adapted since then, I was able to do them! I'll be including the 2020

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  and do the things i never got a chance to do before or at MIT, but ... , however, that Zooming for n hours a day kills your will to do much aside ... motivated to do even when i haven't been able to focus on anything for half a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  basically had to do a lot of networking and running around and cold DMing and ... . How do I know if product management is right for me? I think this is a ... . If you do not like talking to people a lot or hours and hours of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  to do: catch up. I needed to bridge the gap that was created by a ... a lot of different people all doing different things, I would feel ... ; today, i feel like a leaf rustling impatiently behind far gone cars  

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  students, so don't worry about being materialistic! Yes, you can do a UROP for payment (you can also do it for credit or as a volunteer). Campus ... interviews intense, or is it more of a "you're in unless you do something

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly ... sites that you think do an excellent job? At times, I felt a little out ... demystify what admissions officers do. I think that for many students, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005