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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  want to help a new generation of students to get in. When you email, use ... surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... , My interview is within 3 weeks, so I want to know how you prepared for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  getting to relax for the first time in a long while, with college ... for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college ... and a little bit of googling to jog my memory. I hope you enjoy. I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And ... summer with a new design and streamlined navigation, we also made room for ... tuned. But for this video, it was our goal to give prospective students a

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the ... achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is ... duties for many years before then. Essentially, my job is to find some of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  provided by students) put on by Next House for 25+ years! Be sure to check ... maintain a balance between the two groups. The best way to get to know us is ... looking for 5-6 frosh to join our diverse community next year, and once you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  standard 18-55mm lens. I wanted to get a new lens to be able to try out new ... ).   5/10/23The pain of getting older. I was set to leave for Seattle ... , meaning that if a BNSF railway train needs to get by, that train will get

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  -chat excessively with friends I’d already begun to miss. I haven’t had much time for ... admissions story, my interests, my dreams. For now, I just want to say hi. And ... stared out the window, as trees, jaywalkers, and Starbucks stores passed by

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  , which gives grants of up to 10K for projects that foster community, for ... ) effecting Institute-wide support services to students by maintaining formal ... recommendations to the Faculty and the Dean for Student Life; (c) encouraging

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I’m going to share my experience with applying early, and for anyone applying ... ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  question, as we prepared for this move, was how to make this new building, at ... -1931 MIT Bulletin, which instructs those who wish to petition for entry to the Institute to room 10-100.']for decades,[/annotation] constituted the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  "Whoa 2010, way to peace out so fast like that" here are some doodles from ... .00 (Introduction to Programming), taught by the epic Prof. John Guttag: Turns out I ... Happy New Year, lovely folks of the internet! Kids 'round these

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue ... . I wanted to impress people around me and I wanted to get a job? And even now ... because I wanted others to think I was smart for going here, but hey

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  , arbitrarily graded online tutorial program. You get points for getting the question right, obviously. You also get bonus points for not opening hints ... trying to get p-set in, and overall, starting off the day really late, and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  already work for Admissions, so I wasn't subjected to such an interview. I ... Palace. My house is called Ducksberry. And (finally getting to the point ... to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum ... for technical companies. I later learned that's not the case at all (by ... opportunities. For our seniors, it will be nice for many of them to have a job

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST ... up to get my act together. Showered, dressed, brushed teeth - booked it ... has to be mentally prepared for that when visiting a modern art museum

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  leadership to high schoolers). Like CodeIt, students who serve as mentors for ... breakfast and lunch each Saturday. I also had the opportunity to tour Google ... for two half-semester courses, 6.0001 (Introduction to Computer Science

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  managed to get someone from the writing department to vouch for me so I GOT ... ="MIT's Writing course/major"]21W[/annotation] classes are HARD to get into. In the ... even want a shot at getting into these classes”. Well, this was news to

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are ... /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric ... a lot of coolant splashing everywhere so it was hard to get really

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  , but it didn't matter. It was all worth it to me for the element of surprise. Fast forward twelveish years later to IAP 2009. IAP is a pretty ... during the school year that you didn't quite get to because you were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009