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  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the blog from a posting on another site asking about admissions officer blogs ... Admissions blogs -- including blogs by three admissions officers, the Director

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  toward the goal of getting into a top school, and it's been portrayed to ... . Try to pick a place that fits you in the summer in case you get stuck ... - give yourself a chance to get used to MIT. Be open to change. Speak up

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  :00 PM- I talk to my mentor’s boss about my spreadsheets and get a whole ... - it’s more of a when to ask for help from my mentor I try to live by ... *written by Liz O. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff ... caused Conner 4 and Conner 5 to become filled with a bunch of Asian people ... the school year I had a pretty consistent sleep schedule, go to bed

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... collaboratively, and thoughtfully, over a long period of time to make this happen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM ... involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  powerful abilities (pun intended). After fruitlessly trying to get the thing to work, I quickly ordered a new adapter online the following day. It ... to get some serious work done. No YouTube, no Grooveshark, and, most

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  leading me to miss my connection to Chicago O'Hare by approximately two ... TO CHICAGO RAWR RAWR RAWR.) There's a discussion topic called "Advice ... want to throw a heavy glass object every time I see it, which is often

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  stopped in places to get my mom and I a shirt, and I bought the mug feautred ... great time. I even got a stranger to take an awkward picture of me by the ... will be, a part of me that desires to adventure, get off campus, and take

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  college, and you're going to get to (not HAVE to!) kick up a storm again and ... memory. Sorry it's been a while since I've had anything substantial to say ... two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  out to by a Microsoft recruiter and Responsible AI engineer, had a few ... ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... loved getting to know over the course of IAP! Maya and I worked together

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... working to get more artists to lecture here. (I still have a tiny bit of ... Thanksgiving, making it impossible to attend all of them), I'll go into a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a freshman applying to internships. I also want to preface this post by saying it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  to Be a Scientist" by me. Awesome. Questions! 1. Everyone thinks I ... carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to ... asked me to take pictures the next time it snowed (snew would be a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  , but I'm getting a team together to take the Mobile Autonomous Systems ... you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... since I came to MIT. When I arrived as a freshman, I thought I was going

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  about to fight with a tiger (though sometimes getting through MIT felt ... to get good seats, but we just waltzed right in. A view from my seat ... a well-organized system where we reported to a station in order to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  people to come just by buying a bunch of these cannoli and advertising them ... Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all ... baked them a cake. Unfortunately, I had turkey carcasses to attend to at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I ... the excitement lied in the fact that I was not expecting to get into MIT ... trying to get an idea of who I was interviewing and whether MIT would be

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  fraternity that you're rushing (basically, trying to get a "bid" from them ... Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou xiang" - a phrase that alludes to the traditional "tou xiang," a Chinese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008