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  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video ... , scriptwriting, editing, etc. If you're going to tell a compelling story, you have ... : what happens to your teeth when you get braces) with Andrea, one of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  essays on end, you need to stand out. Ideally, your essay should pack ... 's focused on you and your stories. Use these opportunities to tell a story ... essay (500-1000 words), it definitely doesn't apply completely to the new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  idea what I wanted to do.  Focusing your job search on mechanical engineering is like focusing your volunteer search on charities, and I had no ... kids. From September 2010 to May 2011 I barely scraped by on my tutoring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  are truly lucky to have Grimson as your chancellor, and I, like everyone ... buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... '6' for shorter)) has been appointed as new Chancellor! This is no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students hail from every corner of the globe: New Zealand to New York City ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... cohort[/annotation]to reflect on their experience. I’m sharing the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission ... was tough, but I made some friends, and learnt to cope up with the new ... kindness. Help people. Contribute to your community. There were moments in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  along the lines of: “Ceri, you’re going to have to revise your college ... put in a lot of time and effort to take college classes or take on ... will find your community of people, as long as you have the courage to go

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  yell, "JESS HAS A NEW BLOG ENTRY!!" and proceed to plop down on his bed ... reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... 'm happy to say still continues on to this day. Being a blogger allowed me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  and wanted to come up with new designs. The first one I made was ... designed my project around two parameters: I wanted to use new skills and ... most new to me in 3.096 were the power hammer, the hydraulic press, oxy

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... communicate what was going on to the outside world. It felt personal and ... my mouth to try to tell her what was going on, tears came instead

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... trying to make new friends. I don’t mean that I’ve shut myself off to new

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web ... confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the ... Emergency! A volcano has erupted relatively close to your critter's habitat

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

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail ... healthy dose of Acceptance to wash down your Rejection ... to do is to work on It, and make it better so that next time you might

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  people from your high school know about MIT? What made you decide to come ... avoid such maulings.) So, to end on a sappy but true cliché that the ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for ... , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... home and be able to work through the night. I work in my room, on my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  kinda takes away all your free time) and I'm venturing out on a new cross ... much. Stitching custom pieces was almost impossible to turn a profit on ... in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  (if you’re on a tablet) to see each color on its own. There is a sad ... to live in these places until your second year at MIT. Figure 1b ... discover, staircases that lead to different places depending on when you take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  and forget to ask your TA about. Maybe you keep one eye on the answer ... arrived here: like I had no limit to what I could take on. That if I just ... know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• 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 ... requirements of this class is to notice something new every day. we are learning ... course, was to become an astronomer. then, on wednesday, i went to 14

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018