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  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  everyone was getting ready to move to different cities and start new chapters ... all are getting ready to graduate again and start a whole new set of ... at me. Bam. Here’s a new set of issues for you to stress out about. An

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  by Visa and MasterCard for currency conversion to Volaris. In return the consumer gets transparency and convenience. “For a low cost ... , demand for new routes, load factor per route, max willingness to pay for

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my ... person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... addresses, judging by the number of friend requests I've been getting on

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  so large that even a .5x wasn't zoomed out enough for me to get it all ... that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the ... for with really-ugly-free-t-shirts-that-I-only-wear-to-bed-and-embarrassingly-to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  family got 2 new Maltese puppers!); at a ski resort in Salt Lake City for a weekend, Seattle to visit friends, twice to Colorado Springs for training, Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  started to get that overwhelmed feeling again, wondering if I really was ... , MISTI has opened my eyes to new technology and new cultures, and it has ... : Carmeuse   Since my freshman year, I have seriously wanted to

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... to the Student Center for Tech Twinkles, an event run by the the MIT ... 10, from above[/caption] I went to a meeting for Chroma, MIT's science

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was waiting for me. There was never any question about whether I would apply to ... before you can begin to fill it in. If you are new to these pages or to MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  get paid for your work! I'm really lucky in that I get paid to have fun ... swimming on my stomach, I'm getting there. I won't have to worry about ... New Hampshire and learned how to ice climb! It was a lot of fun, and I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  -difficulty and age appropriate tasks to make the challenge a fun experience for ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  , and there's this indirect but constant pressure for you to get some form ... stream of happiness that seems so hard to come by, thankful for this pure ... backspace on this line for the past twenty minutes, trying to convey this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one by Krystal, this one by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  calculus you need to know for that class is integration by parts. Sure, it ... . Our room was like a maze for a few days. Responses to comments ... term- which is cool for them but by no means necessary. Of course, there

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  support for transgender students, particularly those who may wish to ... Insitute, "in addition to other objects set forth, shall provide for ... commitment to national service, and our commitment to strive for fairness and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  , someone stopped by to see me, or worse yet...it rained and why on earth ... saw Alina when she came to pick up students for tours after sessions when she was a new tour guide. The following summer when I went to talk

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  way to prepare myself for eventually getting my EMT certification.  Anna ... work gets to be overwhelming at times, and it's important to know that we ... you need to get any medicine!! 4) Anyone at MIT In all honestly, if I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to get merch for my parents. It’s your standard college merch store, plus a ... to buy as a gift for their family, friends, and loved ones. (continued

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  students are vaguely expected to understand by this point can be used in much ... ="in particular, this is given by the Euclidean distance from a point a to the ... and 43rd. Reasonably, I cannot walk through walls to get to my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  .Y. Before anyone could go running for the police, the new guide explained that ... fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006