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  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the ... we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  to help "chronically messy" individuals around the work survive their ... . You are not the tidy person you once were. Little piles are starting to emerge and your disorganization is starting to affect your life and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  Guillen taking advantage of chance to attend MIT, play football By ... best a student-athlete could ever hope to receive. Guillen, a four ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  'll ever attend. I am trying really hard to scrounge up some sad, much as I ... four years here and I love MIT to death. On the other hand, no school until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  Continuing on the thread began yesterday... With 10 days to go until ... as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but ... attracted to MIT's campus culture, I've found these students often are also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study ... , home to some interesting and important transportation research. Visions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  inconvenient with everything else that I had to do. -9.29 (Intro to ... writing Matlab code. I was sitting next to my friend Dennis '08, who was ... lot more other stuff that I had to do this time. -6.004 (Computation

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a ... construction, as you can tell. Turning back around to leave, I spotted this ... 're familiar, thanks to a previous entry. Along the way, I thought I'd show you a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  beautiful polka-dotted sundress which keeps me cool walking to work on hot ... of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system ... department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David ... said that Foulke had flown to Birmingham, Alabama, last week to see Dr ... information, I went to ESPN's Peter Gammons, who wrote: Keith Foulke took last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  It doesn't take long being on MIT's campus to notice all the laptop ... for hours if you let me. The "fly the W" sticker also relates to the ... , but was made into a red/green image to spite the large number of color

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing ... Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East Campus meant being able to glance at the line outside my window and line up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about ... $\pi_x(A)$ and $\pi_y(A)$ respectively. If it helps you to see it written

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... , short previews and links to videos of the talks: Anette “Peko” Hosoi ... a new venture to encourage students to learn about new machines

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  Last weekend, I wrote “A Guide to Farmer's Markets". Here’s what I ... can be like that too. You have to appreciate small things when they ... would say, take time for yourself, because otherwise it's hard to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  may have some questions, so we’ve assembled some answers to FAQs. Many ... you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don’t know how to name; that

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024