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  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that ... serve as a force for the betterment of society. The key for Thresher is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  , or UROPs. For the 6 courses I'm taking this semester, I have 1 End ... -August. 2 of my courses are project-based. For those 2 classes, my project ... final papers -- due in mid-June -- to count for the majority of our marks

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  consumed by my final project for 6.869: Computer Vision. So I thought I would ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of ... computer. For instance, here are some questions you might be able to solve

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... ’t wait for the regular action folks, and this year's Pi Day video. Wisconsin Interview and Cheese Last week, I went to Madison, Wisconsin for an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its ... -funding initiative for its students) for another idea they had (“like Uber but for ... would be far cheaper and less labor-intensive. So for the last month, the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  year since 2004 while directing the Media Lab's Center for Bits and Atoms ... (almost) anything: it's a semester-long crash course on making for those who ... good idea for a while, but after an hour of congratulating myself on how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... “punky,” and I felt welcomed. I never expected to work for the U.S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  The writing process is different for every one of your favorite bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I'm able to sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can ... discover. For some background, my high school was tiny. My graduating class ... . Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and eating them like an actual horse 3) It's time for those of you who ... ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for ... for a sophomore year elective. Since then, that project has grown into ... White House ​advisor for ​mobile and ​data ​innovation. He will work with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  problem they want to solve, the users for which that problem exists, and ... for which we’re creating solutions. So, for instance, we can’t design an ... . For instance, GR1 is about defining the problem statement, identifying

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  through EMTing for a bit to help myself. It's all figured out, right? Where ... awesome fabrics for space for firefighting for everyday use IT ... internships and friends that I had. I'm excited for the next step (a real job (I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  ’s MIT-speak for “undergraduate research”), I work with a team of awesome ... , econ, poli sci and others– for consideration and the top 100 finalists ... compete for some serious national recognition and prizes. In our first year

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  that art for art’s sake is reason enough. As Robin Williams said in Dead ... alive for…That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the ... mind the other day: Poetry is important for the same reason that a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... posted here.  I was an interviewer myself for many years before leading the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  Friday night I slept for 10 hours and 8 glorious minutes. If you ... morning, however, when I woke up at 9:29am for the last conference tennis ... indication, then for all intents and purposes, I was stressed out. It doesn

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  , we like to talk about MIT Beef and the Lab for Chocolate Science. I ... research opportunities are available? In preparation for a visit program, I ... the best classes for studying Course 2 or Course 6, and the afternoon

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  I have discarded jeans for yoga pants. My laundry load does not fit ... , for too often they have replaced a human lunch. Soon I will run out of ... Facebook timeline for something other than finding PSet buddies? Probably

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  going for inspirational and life-changing. Here's a gif in case you missed ... special object due to its symbolism. As for the finances, I heard RingComm had funds left over that they were turning into subsidies for students

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014