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  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  of college, I searched for opportunities at nonprofit organizations ... mine. A week before graduation, I got a job offer at a college access ... . MIT Admissions was at the top of my list of places where I wanted to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  entry is mainly aimed at the prospective Class of 2013 - yes, the ... . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• 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.    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  you enjoy being a part of the Praise Dance Team and Gospel Choir at your ... people at your school. At college you will meet lots of students and ... they say. D: Okay Q, I’ll give the Office of Admission at the schools a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  . * Speaking of wonderful lectures, Noam Chomsky also came to talk at MIT, about ... the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  !?), it brings back memories of what I was feeling at the time. I was ... feel a little more at home. One of my favorite bits is the fact that I ... definitely my favorite. Juice was kind of a staple at home, too, but now I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  think a big part of it is boredom. At MIT I would roam campus and ... . At home things just sort of blend into each other as time inches past ... on some turns while Jen maxed out at 4. We both had a median of 2

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  orientation at MIT in my freshman year, who ended up pursuing a degree in STEM ... would record all of the voiceovers at the same time, then all the scenes ... all of the videos at one time, then upload them all at the same time and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  is great! If a course isn't offered at your school, MIT will not ... chemical engineering at MIT and have no intention of choosing any other ... admissions office looks at your 'list' of achievements and capabilities and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  's response and the new reality of being an MIT student during COVID-19. At ... at home – sometimes the dead of night was the only time I could truly ... previous posts why I decided to take a Leave of Absence this year. The event

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk and instead look at the faces that are right there with you. Sometimes

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  Criminal,” appeared on the windows of my usual second-floor study spot at the ... , aimed at interweaving disciplines offered at the Institute with computing ... , was held to address the ethical implications of research done at MIT

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  , he adds"]football.[/annotation] There are a lot of these and at the ... at our disposal too. When I walked in, some of the people were going ... , the capital of Pakistan. After someone pointed this out, we were at

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  resume at some of the smaller companies that ask for one. My friend and I ... , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the ... vessel of content (text and/or illustrations).” This definition encompasses

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my face contemplatively sip coffee at you from my blog header, my tooling

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  . To be a creative writer at MIT, there’s a certain amount of going ... My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard ... at their own universities—student populations filled with clout

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that ... , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013