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  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains ... , but also a way for you to get to know us better. Show up on time ... .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one ... Orbital, and on the other side, I had the option to join a team of students from Harvard and MIT to go on a cross-country bike trip (Washington D.C. to San

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  our glasses on high to pledge our love for thee We join all those of ... the sure-to-be-off-key sing along of the MIT alma mater; feel free to ... I'm in Phoenix for the International Science & Engineering Fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  go relax and have some fun while you wait! Feel free to comment and ... I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I ... I wrote a couple years ago (see below). As someone commented on Lydia

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  Music Librarian. So read on ahead, to learn about MIT's Libraries ... place to sleep on campus. Now, I developed the ability to fall asleep on command on semi-annual car trips from Georgia to Louisiana, but I think this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  really, I’ve spent the last two days working on a script for an episode on ... ) Walk to work. It really depends on the day, since I do production and communications stuff for Science Out Loud, but I work on program development as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... checklist for the ages. 52 THINGS NOT TO DO IF YOU WANT TO BE ADMITTED TO MIT

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given ... applications like an assembly line worker you may not have time to just wait for the perfect essay so you'll have to rely on writing skills alone. I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... for. Chalk art's already a thing that you see a lot on campus (see: MIT ... slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... member, this year i had the great opportunity to help write for the hunt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  better and shed new light on your application, feel free to send that in ... MIT can arrange one for me because I dont want to lose out on any ... additional essay on my experiences at a local research lab would be useful for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  . Please feel free to ask me questions, either by commenting on the blog or ... sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the ... of their time to repaint the room for the next year. Other than that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair ... Sudoku puzzles, and live for double entendres and free food. I know all the ... get to help me think of a name for my real blog. (I named my old one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away ... fried pants for dinner. I was really excited to have found a great ... (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  ) to sleep well, the time to take off for a couple days (either for free ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... for some midnight ice cream instead). I have some documents to prepare

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  , listen to awesome music, get free Anna's Taqueria burritos, Ben & Jerry ... Guitar Hero; they happen to be MIT alums, and they'll be on hand running a ... really amazing... guaranteed to blow your mind or your money back (ok, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  sprawled out on the lawn, waiting for the eclipse to happen. Well, there ... [/caption] Grace called her mom for advice on how to avoid crawling through the next ... This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  that much to get in the pool at Hurricane Harbor for five minutes. On ... too timid to ask the waiter for change. It's truly a beautiful disaster ... (which pay for themselves after two visits) this summer, I was able to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  you choose to take. For example, to fulfill one of your physics ... opportunity to talk to some of the prospective members of the Class of 2011. That’s right, if you don’t ask me questions on my blog, I will call your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... dorm on Thursday. While the prospect of a free dinner is typically ... four years at MIT. I had a chance to meet Iman and talk with her for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008