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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... exploring new countries (like when she went to Iceland last summer!). She

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  possible for me to get into MIT without foo?" The answers to these questions ... they should retake to raise them by 30 points. I hope that it gives you ... 't. ******************************************************************************************************************************************* As you can see by my post count, I'm new here. One of the things I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... requirements of this class is to notice something new every day. we are learning

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  . Don't get addicted to coffee; don't drink Monsters. Apply for a College ... for fun; memorize the Saferide schedule. Get to know Tosci's; decide ... thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  problematic for my soft, smooth chains of Pockets. To protect against getting ... for the pocket to release indigestible material that accumulates over ... ?). The smog is believed to have been caused by the volcanic event, but has

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night ... continually shedding the old enchantment for the new. Zero. My flight going from Boston to Atlanta was delayed by three hours. This means I was going to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... function of how far you want every dollar that you spend to go. To get my ... swim: Get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic.My classes

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... the new essay, and MIT gave me admission. For those beginning their ... for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  work set the basis for several new developments i.e. using yeast to ... air, as freshmen were trampled by upperclassmen rioting to reset the ... how it occurred later on this week.) It's hard to get time to yourself

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  , dedicated to Downtown Boston. Boston Common Located conveniently by the Park ... . For a festive mood, there’s also Christmas lights and music shows by ... expectations for my first oceanic viewing as well. When I first got to the Boston

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  , a masters student (known affectionately by many as “Blue”) to get us ... video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... (then) recently released new concept for the Iron Man comic series, a 15

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  by just overexerting myself.  Learn, for the first time, how to ... ."][/annotation] was happening for the next hour, and to drop by for snacks and advice ... , surrounded by decorations that remind me of how hard I worked to get to MIT

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... ?t=5756 -- When I got to the airport for my first ever flight, I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  's only pay attention to the dominant traits. For students who are ... , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... work until the next time you have to kick your brain on for some project

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  new areas of my post-grad life that I’m looking forward to help me get ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  process is tough for everyone and its hard for anyone to get through it ... post apply to all applicants, so have fun reading and don't come for me ... make sure you're preserving some emotional energy to get through your own

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  really engaged in my education during high school. Yet you get to college ... it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for ... schedule to include biology and neuroscience. By the end of this semester

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008