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  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  MAJOR Sloan MBA candidate LOCATION Mexico City MISTI PROGRAM MIT-Mexico MISTI HOST Volaris   Read other MISTI Notes from the Field   "To me, this was all personal challenge. I…

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  AIN AND AOB APS ARM COM DEV DLO DSS EMB ENS EPS ERR ESU ETE FOR FOR GCA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  TREE LOGS: ACK ADE AIN AND AOB APS ARM COM DEV DLO DSS EMB ENS EPS ERR

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  -temperature scanning electron microscope. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  from the lemon grove in nearby Cannes. La vie en bowls. (For those who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  It’s been a stressful last few weeks. The weekend before Thanksgiving, though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group of college enrollment leaders and college counselors from across the country and around the world. Spending…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled guests at Kenyon College, noted author David Foster Wallace began… “There are these two young fish swimming along and they…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  My entire professional life has revolved around education and college admissions.  Even though I have observed many changes, including the transition from an entirely paper-based process (featuring typed or hand-written…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years.  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work more closely with…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  .      Ellen Kullman, the first woman CEO and current CEO of DuPont, was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an official member of…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  MIT alum Matt DuPlessie. Each year Matt gives back a little to MIT by

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT is where they wanted to be, others were less certain. Some may even have thought that…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  Within the last few weeks, early action applicants received their admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked “submit” as the January 1 deadline came and went. For…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don’t have to look any further than how I parent to really get a good…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  people "du," and other important things. The theme ingredient of my week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  ]https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKRSZhUGEhKU6aNSPBACZ?si=573069255af049b1[/embed] Inspired by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  think, it's punk af, and it costs no money)"]Cut my hair.[/annotation] To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  be aggressive af. Pls and Ty.

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018