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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  -- Almost six years ago, I wrote this entry - Notes on the Interview, which, based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a ... admission department to reach out to kids in areas where an in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• FAQ / Interview

  How am I assigned an interviewer?

  an Educational Counselor (EC) available to conduct an interview. If an EC is available, they will reach out via email to schedule an interview with you. Please check the email address used on your application
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  uneven, mind your business😌😌😌. The falsies were hard to put on, and I accidentally got glue on my eyelids and had to rub parts of the makeup off ... hard to judge what they would actually look like on my eyes. In the end

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  doing so. The whole idea behind the blogs is to open a window into the ... featured on the front page the New York Times, or that dozens (hundreds?) of colleges would start their own blogs based on the MITAdmissions model. They

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  about project classes? These tend to be more varied, depending on the ... encompasses the weeks leading up to and the weeks after. Variations on problem ... based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true ... students taking their own lives at MIT and places like it, the causes -- to ... resort to simple explanations and casting of blame. In fact, the science of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  on guide-rocks, unable to see exactly where we were headed. Even as the frigid, gushing wind compelled me to put on my second puffer jacket, I felt ... , especially as we reached the peak where the air would rush behind us and try to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  enough reason to say that their experiences belonged on the blogs. Call ... opportunity of sharing on the blogs as open as possible to MIT students without ... . As I worked on tackling one point after another, I reached out to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  the time I hit 30 and picked a few to work on during 2020. What follows ... hyperpigmentation and spent a lot of money on different products to no avail. Over the ... write, the art I wanted to make, etc. On the other hand, I wasn’t really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  know of”. Also, the easiest way to learn something on the internet is to ... Floor Pi the week leading up to Mystery Hunt. It culminated on Thursday ... also turned out to be really helpful. The status shows up on the main

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... I cringe at the recollection) I’m going to go graphic on you here ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  allows you to work with analog and digital signals on the same ... ). Using two of these DACs, all I needed to render something on the ... problems and allow me to load new songs on the fly. This was indeed the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  ://www.training.nih.gov/student/) with links to student programs. After sending in the Summer Internship ... across your information are so low! What you have to do is browse the NIH website or talk to friends and neighbors to find the name of specific

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer ... later on in my high school It seemed to me a little cruel How the right ... lectures and find other small things on my to-do list that fell through the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  internship on the second day. ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT ... question. Panicking, I said the first number that came to mind. "Okay," she

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  access to MIT's piano practice rooms on the 2nd floor of Building 4 ... for an entire 150 seconds before someone directed me to the correct door ... briefly considered asking the student office to make me a second ID so I

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

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of ... pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does the airborne pumpkin have to come to terms with its identity* before

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  Art Party. As the second semester got underway, we got to work creating ... upon Commencement, the water stations where students are egged on to keep ... part activist. We called our first meeting "Bring it to the Table." We

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... it will actually work this time (I am able to count on one hand the ... able to get into the other line before the mass of tourists reached it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  tweeted, and posted on Facebook, spreading the warnings to avoid public ... .  I reached the 300 Smoot mark.  And then I turned around. To the ... sports, the marathon - a sport that doesn't even have a side to cheer for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013