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• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  Last week I started working at the MIT Alumni Association. It was ... for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a ... (both at MIT and on the road) and have been known to tear up a bit on

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... the possibility of failure. So I made an appointment at Student Support ... . Every part of my body abhorred that idea. I could not, at the dawn of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  , and I envision swarms of anxious seniors staying up at night over one ... Boston at sunset, when no one looks at others, but feels them, and where ... . Every day I marvel at their stories. There is a boy on my floor from a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  Redmond, WA And what are you up to? Product mechanical engineer intern at ... trips at points this summer, to places around Boston, etc. And GREs ... ? I am doing an internship at Institut Néel, learning how to simulate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a ... touch with my EC and we agreed to meet at his office. He works out in one ... , and glanced up at me with a little twinkle in his eye. Interviewer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  students burgers, as well as dye their hair! Every Friday at 5pm, East ... tube races/battles/funtime. Meanwhile, inside talbot... At the ... it! It was a little strange at first, but we quickly went into

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  get some furniture. Also, while we're at it, Cam's first blog post makes ... series of e-mails from my bff Sophie W. '14. Background: at the end of each ... am writing to remind you that you have until Monday, December 16 at 9

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  to be here at MIT without you and all the lessons you've taught me ... me. I'm sorry I didn't spend this Thanksgiving at home--I promise I ... in the 3+ months I've been here. Being at MIT has really opened my eyes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... done. You know that thing that they say where learning at MIT is like a ... - Notoriously a challenging class at MIT, 2.006 is all about modeling fluid flow

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  . At some point, my letters morphed into their current form - my ... quickly (she was slow.) Having handwriting that you enjoy looking at is a ... .022, then for 8.223. He's a character. // that's supposed to say vacuum at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  provides a "broad base" for physics at all. The approaches in the two fields ... is great! If a course isn't offered at your school, MIT will not ... like math, you are expected to be at a certain level when you get here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  perfectly at ease with social interaction!" Me 2: "Ah-ah-ah, don't be getting ... sitting at the table over there? Come on, get on it. Say hi to him." Me 1 ... eventually I'd have to at least meet a few new people. And as orientation week

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  -Student Government at MIT Serious Stuff with Silly Names -Serious Chemicals ... series of alarms, and a lot of sneezing. At some inhumane hour: my friend ... later. At a much more reasonable hour (like, 10am) my alarm. I blew my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  do you think about x global issue" or "what is your goal here at MIT ... idea of at least what direction you're going, but, if you have one, don ... comes first Yeah, academics are important at MIT, but quality friendships

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate has a SEPARATE security line at Logan airport (beware, those of you who ... AGAIN. At this point, I was wearing my MIT 2014 track jacket instead. TSA

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  myself, or (at the minimum) seeming like a creep watching someone else ... Mojgani, the writer I met at Boston University last month after a ... bed at the same time and sing lullabies in harmony. Not nearly as many

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... everything from shadowing a doctor to working a brief stint at a finance giant ... decided to pursue a position at a fashion startup that boasted a fresh

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  just don’t give a shit.” - Hardi Meybaum, GrabCAD CEO/founder I work at ... think I could do better at with work?” Hardi: “Gabe, I think you’re doing ... . Hardi had never cussed at me, much less refused to answer one of my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  ourselves. We don't look at each other competitively- I've honestly never felt ... the biomedical field at some point (yay biomedical robots), I decided ... /recitation and at least another 8 doing all the readings, notes, and the psets. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  decision they made during their time here at MIT. Pledging MIT Sigma Chi ... life at MIT. You can avoid it, embrace it, or cohabitate with it. Coming ... -long bonds at MIT. My freshman year, the process of Recruitment allowed me to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012