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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  't need to pack your schedule with APs to get into a good school. You know ... to pad your resume. And try to get good stats - have as few glaring ... they demonstrate your desire to challenge yourself and take risks (and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  . Title Link: I Am Prepared, get it? IAP... (it's okay if you don't want to ... better? Come learn about databases to find answers to these questions, get ... -deprivation competition. Get together with friends to solve puzzles that will lead you to a

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to ... , however, that Zooming for n hours a day kills your will to do much aside ... bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be ... presentation.” (2.ThA website) Some people choose to begin their research in the ... doing homework. What do you have to show for it? What monumental task will

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  - senior VP at Google - wrote about Steve's devotion to design: One Sunday ... thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to ... "Apple fanboy." Neither does my dad, who is about as far as you can get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  the website as a PDF. You can fax it to 617-253-4076. If we don't get it, you'll have to get your p[arents to sign it and fax it to us at ... your best way to get to MIT on public transportation. Most of you will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  having my google drive run out of storage (thanks to me uploading photos ... down and instantly get my degree?? 9/9/21 My friend sent an email to ... meal plan, but when the opportunity arises to get free meals, lots of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  used indexes of chief executive compensation show close to a proportional ... the hype to see what is really going on with salaries of CEOs in the ... capitalization of the largest companies. For instance, from 1980 to 2003, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  departments, nigh impossible) to get a research position in your first year ... openings website, just to get a sense of what opportunities are out there and ... have trouble with those last two).  You're spending $55K a year to be

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  ), not the summer, to be the time when you're truly making your living ... NOT ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE DORMS DURING YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR. I'm sorry, I ... NOT ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE DORMS DURING YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR. Whooo.. now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those things. December 1 Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and ... : This video of Cho Gue-Sung getting a little [annotation note="Imagine me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  freshmen get assigned to not only a regular advisor but a resident advisor ... opportunity to get advice from an adult and a wise upperclassman. Also, the ... made to your specifications or they can make you a wrap sandwich), Bits

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  physical DVDs to your house. The Higgs boson and gravitational waves were a ... It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  every pop song about disaster,  I manage to find your name.    ... , the food your parents cook, and you will keep wishing to be less—less of ... latest in the Letters from Home to Home exhibit.  Even if you're not a big

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  ideas to Google Docs when I collaborate with someone else. Last week I ... to Google Calendar” button to block off time in my day to sit down and ... The writing process is different for every one of your favorite

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  midnight).   As soon as you get off the plane, follow the signs to the Silver ... .)   Wait under the big cement Silver Line T posts. Bring a book.   To your ... racks to store your luggage and a scrolling neon sign announcing the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  pre- high school days, skip down to Summer 13 (the numbers correspond to my age at the time). *It took me forever to write this sentence. Ideas on how to pluralize things like "June" and "July"? I had to stop myself

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  most people, you don't have to learn anything about your body for your ... different way, I feel like I have time to write about it. I've been a part of Infinite since I came to MIT, and I highly recommend it. There's a role for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  . So according to my quick Google calculation, it's been 230 days since I ... be insufficient in order to get where you need. With my research, it ... draw from in order to get the information I needed in order to be

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008