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  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to ... Admissions Counselor at MIT - providing information sessions to on ... students can increase their odds is to feel confident that the college they

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  . What makes me sad is when students focus on their studies to the ... To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... judgement about admitting them or rejecting them? Hide their AP's on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles ... on the busiest river in Boston during the busiest hours of the busiest ... . (No kidding.) 3.Launch rafts onto the Charles River around 6 pm on July

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  the hell a cross correlation was supposed to do. The whole thing was ... was a Course 6 major from the start, fairly confident that I wanted to ... dropped out to start companies and were doing quite well - the pace and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  right answer to a question on an application. There is only the right ... Square, Coolidge Corner, Beacon Hill, the North End, just to name a few. The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it off. All present: May, you need some sleep. May: But my paper’s on The

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show ... delivered something like 8 or 9 Valentine's Day band-o-grams on the slushiest day of the past decade. I helped teach Susan Hockfield how to play Wii

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  enough, I was walking down the Infinite on my way to study for one of my ... decided to email the grad student behind the project, Barry Kudrowitz. From ... actually in the process of pitching the concept to the discovery channel

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  'm willing to work sufficiently hard on the weekend prior to that week ... the middle of their second term (although you're free to switch later if ... the GRE biology subject test that I'm taking on Saturday... it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  palatable (people seem to have strong opinions on both sides of this argument) and (second) a debate about who makes the best coffee in general ... Mountain at the Building 4 Cafe (and soon DD). We seem to rotate between them

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  induced coma, I spent the last few days working on those things I put off ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... 's been easy to put off what I'd prioritize on any given Sunday morning

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have ... point of these meetings is for us to learn about the things that interest ... have to prepare anything special for the interview. You should be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why

  

  .... I wish I could be the perfect [beaver] But I come back to the ... ] Every [deadline] I make, [Mass Ave] leads back To the place I know, where ... second of the day, so did every second of being at MIT.  Sometimes, the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  Christian school, where she learned how to code (she was the only girl on the ... tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place ... professors at Emory University studying neuroscience. They immigrated to the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  : Based on a language model we use a context to improve Google Search Result ... working on improving user productivity and blogging experience. The city: Bangalore is the best city to work in India –cool weather, awesome

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of ... in the desert, and it was really difficult to tell beforehand whether

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  . Everybody has different levels of talent. Later on, though, the only thing ... reach of seats by the window. I wrote for a while. I thought of Anis ... the half-formed ideas, and usually, by the time I return to them, they

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  , because my dorm room was on the first floor, I had a great view of the ... Harvard as the primary reason I started thinking seriously about going to ... weeks before I shipped out to Harvard, I was participating in the National

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  largest was 20. Of course, 2.2 points on an exam is worth a lot more to the ... online-submission platforms I've used. It comes down to the grading system ... hypothesize that the discrepancies were just due to different graders. To sort

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the ... message ever sent by telegraph was "What hath God wrought?" The second one ... almost died in Boston traffic. Note the lack of a shoe on Kim '09. Kim is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006