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  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us ... my first year as an Admissions Officer and I was really impressed by ... by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  end of your freshman year. BE will be the first and only department with ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... 're not. (This can be applied to all of the other crazy schools that also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... with somewhat of a plan, and you'll probably be fine. Some members of the ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  about all of the airport delays and closings, including O'Hare in Chicago ... :50am: The first student I recognize arrives: Candice from Utah =) 9:42am ... arrived! 11:13am: It has started to rain. Lots of umbrellas on the campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  with a lot of family issues, i was living alone for the first time, and i ... fascinating algorithms class, taught by two of the biggest names in the budding field. i only registered for the class because i saw one of the professors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... School of the Museum of Fine Arts) appealed to me when I applied here, and ... “The Poetics of Place” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a last

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of situations the problem with being suspicious of everyone is that interacting ... great time and making a lot of friends. or as another example, one of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  should go rectify all of these things… or at least the first two. I’m not ... little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  bueno Muses, first rate Resonance, and of course gotta love the ladie ... While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... members of the MIT Marching Band and MIT’s vocal groups. As it turns

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  The first day I got back, stiff from the plane, I hit the river path ... with its rush of cars. I'd forgotten how quiet the desert is.  I was ... [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  from studying that I can't help but share with all of you - the first ... This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... , who is one of the most amazing singers I have ever come across.) At 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... ultra ultra math nerds, and suddenly you can smell the scent of math ... "]reckless abandon[/annotation]. But that’s only scratching the tip of the surface here

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  to post a long long time ago, regarding the epic IAP 2010 travels of ... communities. Between the four villages, we got a pretty good idea of the needs of the urban and rural villages. When we weren’t working with GK, we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night you'll see MIT kids like you never knew them before! Some of the most ... difference from the stage to you to just nigh the electric breakdown of air

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... have to be honest to the prefrosh - many of you were stalked on facebook

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  aspects of their academic and student life. The survey is essential in ... enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... , and the results of any research or analysis using the data will be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  everyone in the class. Random MIT Memory: Trying bubble tea for the first time with Matt McGann and the rest of the advising group freshman year. I didn't like the way the bobas tasted so I started shooting them out of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  , in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her ... had planned to go to the dinner mob of Nick "Nim" Martin '03, another 5 ... first time, but I was too late. So instead, I went with Kim to the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... . I knew that I wanted to be part of the MIT community after CPW ... paradise! There’s plenty to geek out about. You might attend a Lord of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  In honor of the release of the Nintendo Wii the Great Dome found ... back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The ... the Triforce of Power, Nayru contributed the Triforce of Wisdom, and

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006