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• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  getting in and not getting in, but you'd rather look your best throughout ... enrollment") Both of these examples, of course, don't get caught by spell ... on Microsoft Word to proofread your essay -- you'll want to take a keen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  lot of the experiments I do involve getting cells to take up foreign DNA ... to go off of or do you know what you're doing like the back of your hand? when do you get to learn how to do all this anyways? Yes, you can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  here. So we decided to create Independent Studies (which was a whole ... we did not know what we would be able to achieve by creating a short ... , allowing the process to guide the story. So we started off by thinking about

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  clarify exactly what a sorority is. According to the Panhel website ... sorority life at MIT (http://web.mit.edu/panhel/www/index.htm). Want to test ... recruitment! Recruitment is a five day process, where you get to meet a lot of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but maybe have not gotten the chance to get your foot in the door through the ... to try and fail. It did get frustrating at times, but overall, I still

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  , typically a Google Doc, to a webpage that gets served on the hunt website ... meeting was the overarching timeline to get the hunt written. We selected by ... time to talk about all my favorite puzzles before your attention span

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  26, 09:30am-12:30pm, TBD Signup by: 08-Jan-2007 Limited to 25 ... ...well only if I choose to. Tomorrow marks the beginning of IAP (Independent Activities Period)...It's one of my favorite times of the year

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  ?" "You're RIGHT! THAT HAS TO BE IT!" [Spend 20 minutes looking up Latin ... 're supposed to use the nth letter of each Latin fish name, as dictated by the ... , and monitor all the puzzles) and get to work on it. It was titled

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  Shuli. The fact that I was able to get this vibe, even though this year ... specific puzzles -- we’ll add another note when we get to that part. Shuli ... up something called the “Projection Device” to try and get her out. And

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  Interconnected.is chanced to stop by the store to buy a handle for his old Corolla ... warning: wherever you happen to be, it will get real dusty real quick once ... auto parts store. It doesn't get much foot traffic anymore - what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  task you need to complete gets time scheduled on your calendar, so you ... . Also take this as a sign to go get a credit card and build your credit ... 't spend too long on this section, but Google Calendar is a typical go to for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  . Rationale: when evaluating the most direct route to your goal, be it the ... -twisting parking maneuver, you don't hesitate to overshoot your target and then back up until you're perfectly centered. (By the same reasoning, people who

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  , and you'll get to share your knowledge with others while improving your ... methodic math and CS problems I get in my psets. It's also incredibly useful ... interests to you, and get in touch with people open to hanging out and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently ... something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will ... to clarify it. If there was a nicer way to get a certain conclusion

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  she returned home from her trip, she wanted to empower the girls by ... apply your excellent educations and skills to making global changes. ... The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  would get to it eventually a few times, and then I forgot a few times ... it's physically possible for the human thumb to move independently of ... stopped by tourists on their roundabout journey to the MIT Coop, where they

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  missed it, here's an index of their entries: 50 Reflections by Ben Jones ... Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay by Keri G. '10

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  -style device which appears unlikely to work but does anyhow. (2) A method by ... skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  far without ash sticking to the windshield of your car. there was so ... ’ll be great. and then i went to et, one of mit’s independent living ... , where we form teams and we’re taught to build a website, and that night we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  , surrounded by soggy tourists. I don’t think I could get used to that forever ... ’m looking at.  I went to the school’s website and looked into the ... science.  And honestly? My instincts were correct. I was able to get a pulse

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023