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  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  about all the activities/groups that I'm involved in at MIT. However ... Expansion Director for LTI (pretty much the guy that facilitates LTI ... focus on student leadership and provides many opportunities for students

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  ever. Living in Boston. I lived at Phi Delta Theta this summer for a ... , and it's truly worth fully soaking in for at least a couple months. For ... fined $25 for not doing our cleaning duties, and the serious shame of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  , for example). Robots don’t have that understanding, and those at the ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... knew I liked robotics and what that meant academically, but even at that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  that has assignments [annotation note="truly the worst"]due Friday at ... met up at 7pm at a place called Dear Annie, located just off the Red ... Annie team mentions their goal is to “be a center for community.” I think

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this ... my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... . every semester, for teacher-parent conferences i guess, teachers would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  to tell your story and for us to get to know you as a three ... application as well. At MIT, our alumni conduct the interviews, and alumni who ... ). After you submit your application, you may be contacted for an interview

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion ... is probably not worth ten billion dollars, so it would be better for me ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  find an outlet at the festival, Raphael decided that he was due for a ... a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  addition to more large-scale happenings at the List Center for the Arts, the ... for the T in Technology, it also has a super vibrant and scholarly ... studies, urban planning, history of architecture, etc. For example, did you

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What ... work visa to the US, showing an offer letter for a job at Verizon. To ... arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  , especially at schools like mit, for abandoning their intellectual interests and ... a few weeks ago i had a job interview. we had some extra time at the ... : yeah, i think it’s common for these kinds of narratives to become very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  "]wake up at 7am,[/annotation]and head down into the cramped gym in the ... , save for the mechanical whirring that plague every dorm basement, we got ... you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  before I fly back to Cambridge tomorrow morning. I’m on my own for now; my cousin is at her job, working for a public health/charity organization, and ... walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  freshman advising seminar 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I’m flabbergasted at ... ://listart.mit.edu/public_art for virtual tours and more information on the individual pieces. Public art at MIT took off during the Cold War as a way of humanizing the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  didn’t help me at all when I was actually writing my essays. If you are ... to convince an admissions committee that you are a good fit for their ... . Focus your application on some of these points. Or at least keep them in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  .\n") print(c,"Not for actual cheating, but for when you're working at home and ... CourseWare. I did a few lessons before stopping to have time to study for the SAT ... reminded me a lot of GameMaker. Also, my dad got me my first Arduino kit for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  I had lots of stuff planned for you guys, but my friend Ben (not ... hold off on some interesting pictures I have for you so I can follow ... that I basically stole his intellectual property. Way to be. =) Now for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  . No, not really. Anyway, we decided to head over at 1:00 PM for the 4 ... , which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... and Barrel is about a 30-minute walk from my dorm. For those of you who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  "The Show Goes On" and "Battle Scars", so when I heard he was teaching at ... the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at ... phone. As Ajay found his profile for me, Lupe sighed. "This is what I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

   linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to do my part for the statistic that 90% of students have had a UROP by

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019