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  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interested in MIT. My advice is not to let it get the best of you. If you are ... the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear ... until the last minute to contact us. ECs know that the college

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  to hang out with cool people is also part of the fun! Go get advice and ... experiment, there are only 3 hours of data collection (as opposed to the normal ... 4-page paper. These are graded for completion! The format is hard the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• 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 ... instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers in the desert, and it was really difficult to tell beforehand whether

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

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right ... . Behold, the death of 3-month vacation heralded by this monstrosity of Google calendarism: [See legend at end of post to decode course numbers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  about to pull an all-nighter, or close enough to one that the difference ... ;"Boot, Not Summer"—a training session run by the MIT Assassins' Guild ... buy and read Deathly Hallows. Some years see the writers get sick as a

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  be. I was turned down by three of the ten schools to which I applied ... ...I can empathize with the applicant pool. At least you guys get to see ... the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... my elementary school parking lot alone. Vienna by Billy Joel was on the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  officially enrolled! Step 5. Get yourself to Harvard The inefficiency of ... the help of a Harvard friend to look up course evaluations from previous ... to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  --which is indeed, as heavenly as it sounds. It was introduced to Beantown by ... professors at Emory University studying neuroscience. They immigrated to the ... Christian school, where she learned how to code (she was the only girl on the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  chessboard mounted to the wall with pieces attached by the magical properties ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... schools scattered across the globe, from Maine to Mongolia and many places

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Riemann Zeta Hypothesis was voted to be the most ... from high school was voted "Most likely to prove the Riemann Zeta ... 're going to adopt it for the incoming class of 2012. No no, not really. Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  's complement & bitwise ops are a good way to wake up. Oh, by the way: today ... , studying, and socializing, you're forced to choose two. Well, they're almost right... Some weeks you only get to choose one. It's a lifestyle not for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  'm getting to a point where I'm content with the amount of effort I'm doing ... , hopping from one event to the next, pset to pset, club to club. Every ... summer -- painting, drawing, gaming. Anything to keep the little string

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  '22s[/caption] To make the movie, they went decade by decade, searching ... footage to illustrate MIT's place in the world and its swift rise to the ... we don't have to embrace current norms as the default. This school is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  less than 48 hours to my next 6.006 midterm, I sit here contemplating the ... Blue, (which will now be referred to as RWRB) a romance novel about the ... determined not to let the book die like that, and I joined a Discord server

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  exists to get people in a circle? I believe in the power of human ... on to discuss the "politically embodied concepts and dances originating ... " attempt to twerk, of Al Minns and Leon James dancing the Lindy Hop and other

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  some pictures. Flying into the Dominican Republic: Getting closer to ... 's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar ... . Feeling very uncultured, I went on to read that he was voted into the ... a little surprising - to read that Harvard recently awarded him the Q

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  about my UROP. By the time I finished, I decided to not post them. As is ... cleansed, I've just now started to tackle the real disaster — my computer ... absolutely no insight to "go to page 92" or "r = rad 3/4."   II. I Don

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022