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• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  November through late February (for this problem we'll say November 1 through ... January, and 1 in February. All else being equal - for applications for

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  ) They are mailed via regular mail for domestic students and via DHL for ... likely receive the NBM® a bit later to allow time for this. 4) The vast

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you considering? Leave your thoughts in the comments... For those of ... coming up quickly for you, too, and I hope that you've found another school ... provide that country's second largest city. For example, if I said United

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash ... Google Maps for an hour or so. Met up with Lorelle and headed to the BSU ... for dinner. From there I headed to the Mr/Miss MIT pageant in time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango lassis for the staff, to go along with the Indian food we had from India ... set to go for international selection, less than two weeks from now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  that has come before you. I'm wondering how your affinity for the web ... you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college ... advance for any thoughts.

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of ... syndication in various formats: RSS, Atom, etc. Check the right-hand column for syndication feeds. Changed the design to allow for easier reading of entries

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  nearer. Look for me in the crowds Thursday morning at the Macy ... the weekend reading applications! No Thanksgiving break for us admissions officers... Anyone else have interesting plans for Thanksgiving?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  sorry not sorry']they didn’t ask for help nor prompt the discussion at all ... program, made specifically for first year students. By completing it, you ... MakerBucks ($50 stipend for maker supplies). This program is [annotation

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  look for in future cities I live in. biking [caption id="attachment_77488 ... .[/caption] In Copenhagen, Denmark, everybody bikes. A guide for a MISTI walking ... for cars as possible. Instead we will ride bikes! We do in fact ride

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  I don’t give myself enough credit for the things I’m doing well, or I ... discouraged. And sometimes, the best thing I can do for myself is have enough ... -hour-long conversations with people I barely knew. It was awesome. I found a UROP for next

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you ... for and everything else. And yet...or maybe because of that, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... , study for the exam, and/or go to Career Fair. "Is it worth?" I ask upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... take.  I showed up for Writing Science Fiction on the first day extremely ... met with the TA’s and Student Support Services and I finally asked for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable ... meaning to read for ages: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that ... all of my reading for my supercool HASS class (American Classics). In

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... — a green alternative material for an established company that was ... was to craft an advertising schema for a company which was in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I ... for cooking. I believed cooking to be an expression of love – to understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  aspects of the fall semester for the most part.  Going into the fall ... were some milestones I was pretty proud of myself for. I didn't have high hopes for doing well during my first semester, but oddly enough, the first

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly ... the top three departments in the country for biology. Some people take issue with this sort of ranking, since the ranking is really for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006