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  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  once a year they gather for a conference. This year's conference was in ... more about options for international students. Coming in, I knew about the six schools that are known for admitting international students in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  . It's working fine for me today, so hopefully that issue has been ... Hi everyone, Just wanted to say hello. Having been out for a week I ... today as if it were still 1/1 - and no, you won't be penalized for being a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  Graduate Program in Science Writing; another was Caroline Mak '18, who had ... events centered around prominent election issues and candidate debates. As ... almost inescapable. I wanted to increase opportunities for the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip inspired by a friend's wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday ... Asia sometime in the future). Thailand The first stop was Thailand. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... 's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  dough for Loaf #3 chillaxed in the fridge for two and a half days in hopes ... parents' computer to mine-detonators in remote Third World countries. When I ... -secret military agent whose patriotic duty was to sit in front of a CRT monitor and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  issues and all), whether my thesis is feasible for an undergrad to do in ... for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  specific in mind I'm looking for. So I started using the Libby library app ... (i.e., in class while my teachers were talking...) I started reading less around the time I started high school, when paying attention in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  likely for others. Therefore, I feel a sense of duty in debunking my own ... into an Oscar-winning screenplay, eligible for a Nobel Prize in ... , looking for inspiration in the ordinary along the way. Then I sit down to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me ... little ways back in my history (what history I have), not too far, just a blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  commencement address for the Class of 2008, as well as a response in the opinions ... students to study and design technology for developing communities in ... terrible excuse for a blogger if I didn't throw in a word or twelve about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of ... should ally with Lessig or Valenti in the interminable copyfight. Nor is it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your ... I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  an engineer or veterinarian in London in my apartment for 1 and some ... bench in Amsterdam as I complete my thesis for my Media Studies degree ... indicative of a deeper issue, but we'll save that for another blog. Regardless

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  -campus visitors, reading your applications, and duking it out with my colleagues in ... with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... ? Some of you may be wondering, what’s the point of visiting in the first

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  visual program on the projector in the back. Courtesy MakeMIT/TechX For ... these things. He's waiting in line for something, so I'm working on this ... culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  , even with the 20% plugged in for the first test I had missed while in 8 ... took a physics class in high school but it was more hands on and not AP, nothing that could prepare me for MIT physics. There should have been

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  major. Hanhan’s love for Course 6 is contagious! In high school, she ... undergraduates. The EECS department is the best in the country and has pioneered ... video game and joystick, a detector for interplanetary communication, HDTV

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry ... -chair for a specialized committee in BosMUN. The conference had around 1200

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  , helped start a yearly Black pre-frosh fly-in weekend for Ebony Affair — the ... expertise in creating insightful questions for institute surveys. Jag Patel ... the BSU Lounge to take in-person suggestions for the list. The PAC

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016