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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  sealer for a local rice micro-enterprise in Brisas del Mar; and designing solar driers for family harvests and testing water in El Benque. January ... continue with the back-breaking process. Their yuca mill has been broken for

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over, while for others it has just begun. In the admissions office, we are ... limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . Because for the first time in our lives perhaps, there is very little ... - but for what? Or work - in which specific industry? Gap year - will it ... but be influenced by the people we care about. Parents, for one, is on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  for lab stamina though. Sleep is magical. 3. Don't know something? Ask for help. I've asked so many questions at lab that I've probably driven ... you speak. While asking questions is great, thinking for yourself has

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  is, unless you aren't looking for flexibility), then you're in luck. If ... 's twice as old as the United States. If I could massively overgeneralize for ... respect for tradition and history, whereas the latter is more concerned with

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  of events for August, Boston has been graced with cloudy skies ... Freshman Pre-Orientation Program, and was so excited to explore MIT for a ... saving time for last-minute decisions. Oh, and grab tons of free food. It

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  described my lessons from the National Conference for College Women Student ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact ... graduation ceremony for the GEL class of 2010 took place. It was encouraging to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend, including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One ... 25% to the undergraduate population for the weekend they're here. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  expenditures for 4.111 materials will be manageable as I can no longer depend on the parental units for feeding this creative money-sucker habit of art ... following is a crop of the syllabus we got for studio this semester. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... furthest south I've ever lived (except for one year I spent as an undergrad ... winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  for EA applicants; the current status of your application is now shown ... a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... for you. We should have the following: Application Part 1, Application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  the Student Center (a building otherwise know as W20). It feels odd for ... . It was an interesting thing to watch. For, as you see, we have made ... decided that for our purposes that the long essay is obsolete... When you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... same things but do it in a detailed way that there just isn't room for in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  time had to do with what the ECs look for, what questions they ask and ... individual, and as a citizen of your world. You don’t make up for one part of ... interview report for as long as they are honest and reflective of who you are

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  conducted research for a report on how the next administration should approach China. Next up, we'll be working on a grant proposal for a project that ... continuing it as an alum, but I decided that it'd be good for someone new to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  Marshall" was shown for free. Occasionally they show classics, like Martin ... get to see them for free. I only have to work one evening each month, and did I say I get to see movies for free? Who wouldn’t want to

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  cream and jam, and drinking tea, of course. For those of you who don't know, there are MIT clubs all over the world and they're basically for ... pretty much nonexistent for a few years until the current president, Linda

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  -oriented school. Ohohoho, boy was I in for a surprise! The first night was ... asking one of the members for an autograph which, WAS, for my friend who ... the Cupcake Making Event for Women at MIT: Then a snapshot of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  Hi folks, Jess sent me an email a few days ago making fun of me for ... those who meet all of the following criteria: You have applied for ... for those who applied in Early Action and received a "final" action in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008