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

  

  like you wouldn’t go to a job interview and ask what the company does

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

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

  

  mind that these are specific formulations of an entity: i.e., it does not

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

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  Anna's asked me to write for her blog. And, since this is Anna, there is some implicit obligation to be nice, or worse yet cheerful and upbeat. As you can see, this does not come naturally. She wants me to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  stressful, but it does seem like it'll pay off. My favorite moment so far was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  human popsicle. -- It really does take understanding what happened

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  when I wrote a note to Davie asking if Joshua Bell does any composing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  compared a little. But how? How does a kid from private school New Jersey get

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  . The students wanted to know what each step does to the DNA, so I’ll try

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  : "LITTLE SALLY! You'd make a great Little Sally." Me: "Does Little Sally have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  admissions process, brutal though it may be, does a great job picking people

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  someone else can write the Hunt. No one ever does it: everyone understands

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  example, does not entail making a grand discovery every day and saving a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  seats available for the less enthusiastic. The madness does not stop

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  - maybe that has the time? Me: Check it out, I don't know if it does though

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  : Which class have you taken (difficulty level), GPA (does it match up with

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  selection does become difficult) Thus, pretty much my adviser signed off on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  family, the expectation is that a daughter does not move out of her family

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  , does this sound too angsty? Should I change it to “but it makes your

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Police actually does exist,” I thought, and briefly considered pulling an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  are? Why does a house burn up until it burns down? The world may never

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008