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  frankly thought it would be a short stopover on my way to law school. I was ... supervising a few new website tricks we have up our sleeves for rollout later ... buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  my Gears A few months ago, when I was looking for something to read on ... is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot ... Mrs. Patterson had alluded to all week while we sat on the floor of her

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  company names). Now, I’m a junior, so the Career Fair is starting to get a ... time at MIT or if I want to jump into a career straight out of college. Both are equally valid career paths. The Career Fair is a great place to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , and New Haven, CT. I’m currently working on a joint MBA/PhD in ... . If you start to ramble and realize you are off on a tangent, that’s ok ... enough to be back on campus it immediately feels like home, and I remember

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

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  solar astrophysicist at Harvard. The AAS has a whole website on how to ... provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that ... . On Valentine's Day, I got a message saying that I'd been accepted, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  would love to help you through admissions, but we expect a little work on ... to have at least read an entry or two, maybe explored the website a ... That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  impression of college was from scrolling on college websites, watching media ... college life, particularly here at MIT. I’ve only been on campus for a a ... to the humanities, but I’ve quickly learned that this just isn’t true

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.

  

  , hopefully allowing you plenty of time to make a decision before May 1. The ... Answers to some more of the common questions ... for financial aid will receive a financial aid package. The financial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  forgetting what songs i know on guitar, so i made a list songs to learn - i ... FOREVER to learn. but i did it, and definitely progressed to a new level of ... [/caption] joon also made this DOPE WEBSITE for a final project. to clarify just how

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory ... , persuasion, corruption and voting. (See the syllabus on this site for a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  campus everyday on each hour.  Quite a few MIT students go each year to ... /JPL sign, though. After visiting JPL, we hurried on our way to take a ... country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  Chicago! Come on, quick like a bunny - they're closing in two weeks!" This ... 'll be sure to fill you in on my four hours of racing around with a ... of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted ... videos gave me secondhand embarrassment in a matter of seconds; I had to go back to those at a later time with more of an open mind. After delving

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about ... . Another popular option is working on a UROP. If you don't have a UROP yet, IAP is a really great time to start because you can work up to 40 hours

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the timesheets we're supposed to keep for 2.009, I've spent THIRTY HOURS working on ... head off to a team meeting. Come to think of it, I've been so busy this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a college counselor to give the same advice I loved to give on the blogs. Each ... acclimated to my new community, the louder the whispers in my head became

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  the cost of a new pair of shoes. And I think it’s more than fair to say ... a lot of what I had read on the website but with more detail. A lot of ... which route to take based on your goals and values. I think a lot of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  be willing pay for such an event? A quick check on ticketmaster shows ... ). Plus, I heard a certain Tim Beaver is planning on being there to get his rock on. He's been known to get a little crazy. See you there

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  On to the questions... Arvind wrote, "'One more favour please', can I ... very interesting.(I have a super slow net connection to download or hear ... . decisions...I am not able to believe that a nobel prize man like prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  and then move on to our personal perspectives on sorority life. A Bit ... spring semester after moving to a new dorm! Immediately after joining, I ... week, I arrived on campus full of that fear, which quickly seemed to be

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020