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  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  permutation thereof, or anything at all, please comment below! I read all of ... left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... myself. Some of my favorites have been: The game that can give you 10

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  at MIT. My weekend was unfortunately engulfed by other plans (one of ... actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a model of MIT's famous Green building. Interestingly enough, this model was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering ... consider the Spain and Mexico programs at first, I ended up choosing Germany ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  : The Story of My Phone: At some point several weeks ago, the screen on ... Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of ... live in the suburbs of Boston, and they came into Cambridge last weekend

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me? At ... at no advantage or disadvantage versus the regular action applications ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As ... meal of the day. Instead of inspiring me to eat a balanced breakfast ... important meal of the day normally starts my day with a feeling of guilt

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  of the interview] Interviewer: [points at his French Fries] "Do you ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... description of the current interview process is posted here.  Here in Cambridge

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  at the prospect of helping my advisees navigate the first 25% of their ... million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely attractive and well-mannered members of Team Bemis spent Saturday night a couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here ... of your parents. While we appreciate that your parents want to help

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  (intramural sports) to the "only at MIT" (hacks). Check out our list of student ... College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ... typical nerds? A. Definitely not. Many of us are very atypical nerds. Q. No

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am ... give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  helped me quite a bit. At MIT, the interview is an important part of the ... , who was one of MIT's Educational Counselors, or ECs. He had retired to ... that it was at his house, which was quite dark, and seemed kinda scary to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  : because at the end of the day, it’s about your lived experience, not just ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most common questions I get at college fairs and webinars: "Does MIT

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  so empty, with nothing happening at all except a lot of work and ... at the phone thought of typing out a list of complaints: the work I ... a disclaimer some events are slightly out of order I was not really

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  , representing one of their student groups at the Activities Fair, problem sets ... social life at MIT begins. I originally met two of my closest friends ... of the people I originally met at CPW. So seriously, meet as many

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  lecturer. 6.2050 was one of the most demanding classes I’ve taken at MIT ... ’re using to read this post works. At the heart of any general ... spared me dozens of hours of staring at an oscilloscope trying to debug

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  in[/annotation], and he kind of just blinked at me and went,  “You ... My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... improves our ability to predict subsequent student success at MIT. When we ... preparation; when we don’t, we have to look (even) harder at other factors, such

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all ... at mit have definitely been very fulfilling and gratifying, yet ... relationship with mit like on one of those public facebook post thingies it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019