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  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Institute and our admissions process, particularly for those far ... speaking to as many students as I could. I'm writing notes for my colleagues ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  half-day sample of the Stanford Experience. Being home briefly for summer ... fundraising for a project called Fuse!box, a "mobile hackerspace" designed to ... aside, those Stanfordites are all right. They're working for the same

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  Hi all, Many of you have already filed your application for ... Action admission decisions are made in mid-March. You can still apply for ... weeks for the SFS office to receive and process your FAFSA or Profile

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  us both if you can, but the transcript is the more important one for us ... MIT tracking page is for!), as it will slow down the processing of documents ... February 15, 2014. For more information and FAQs about this form, read this

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  competitive applicant, about what medical schools are looking for, the ... for the GRE. STUDY FOR THE GRE! It's a dumb test but your score really ... from a college application. When I wrote essays for undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  's memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we ... for a huge concert. Going back half a century, the MIT Spring Concert ... Concert is not the only venue for major bands on campus (e.g. Nirvana played

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  dress for a blizzard... If you're from a warm place and you are a ... though it's blizzarding -- I have the answer for you: fleece lined tights ... lightheated... And then people went for it. By 5pm we were able to catch

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  what they learn to create an alpha prototype for a new product! It's an ... and portable camping stove StormShield: A protective covering for ... fascinated while watching it...) SkyBeacon: A device that would allow for

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  :30am. I stumbled around French House for a bit, bundled up, and shuffled to the student center for breakfast. Surprisingly, my only gaffe of the ... the grass for a dog sniff security check. I didn't consider my notebook

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 ... by bus) and went to L.A. Burdick, a store known for its delicious ... relaxed and talked for a few hours before my eyelids started drooping and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... for an admissions or selections committee is HARD. It's not like ... called an Application Essay, Objectives for Graduate Study, Personal

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  . It was a big, nervous change for me because I am not only change ... *2*4*4=64 options for the lighting in my room, not including my windows. I think ... happiness. Alarm clocks I have two alarm clocks: a radio alarm clock for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  into a proposal for a functional school building. As soon as I started ... ? He kept going. Let me demonstrate for you. He walked up to my boards ... at that moment, I had no idea what I was arguing for, what my project

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  participating in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange Program. For those who are not aware, MIT has organized an exchange program with Cambridge University for the ... programs for a reason: to broaden the students’ horizon, develop our life

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  shooting outdoor footage from the terrace in Simmons Hall for a practice ... interesting to watch while taking STS.064J, and analyzing it for how he used ... ://web.mit.edu/mitso/ for more info.

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for ... especially awesome. Thank you for being awesome. Full speed ahead!   ... they couldn't bear to send you a single email. Apologies for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article, Kahneman describes his time working as a psychologist for the Israeli Army

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  full swing soon, and for East Campus, that means lots and lots of stuff ... .) For the record, the current weather is gorgeous. This year, it's all a bit less glorious, because the city of Cambridge decreed, for the first

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do. Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... different packets with readings for the next few weeks, and I am finding that

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  This week, the new MIT freshman class begins arriving for orientation ... than 1100 students who are all excellent matches for the MIT mission and ... : 862 Just For Fun Most Popular Boy's Name Alexander Most Popular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011