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  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  little-known fact that we in admissions get as excited about cool projects as we do about the big awards. It's true. Students who send in ... -scratch inventions and creations get our attention in the same way that many of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits ... are popular, but so are opportunities in finance, the federal government, and much more. According to statistics from the MIT Careers Office, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  : Thursday, Thursday September 14, 2006. Keep in mind that there are three ... Fund which supports women UROP students pursing research in the School of ... Guidelines website. If youТƒфre interested in doing a UROP this semester, now

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas ... in the bleachers and watched the various events unfold. I snapped this ... / athletics / arts fairs, where I found Mollie (decked out in full cheerleader

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... for orientation: You're supposed to read it in four rhyming lines, like ... " with "three and more!" Note that out of about ten people in the marching

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  Masters in Course 16: Aero/Astro) held an engagement party last Saturday at MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I ... , Shannon '05.) To help diffuse the very high level of stress in the room

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly apologize. Please hang in there for us ... compounded by the fact that people in Alaska have received their decisions while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep ... , but my milk was in a fridge on Conner 4 (along with my eggs, apple juice ... the window in the stairwell. You can look out into the little courtyard

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  and thus oxygen mass transfer in E. coli fermentation, and I'm doing it ... CropScience GmbH in our site in Monheim will accept you as an intern ... . Berka and the MISTI MIT-Germany program for getting me an internship in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am ... . They even help with study abroad options. In addition, there's also ... pre-select you for an interview which are typically held in the Career

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  Sam already told you about AppleBake, but I figured I could throw in ... I did not really participate in the AppleBake festivities, but well ... and I put together the cheese mix, and Rob (just visible in the top of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  : If we don't have any alumni in your area and your interview is waived ... prepare for the interview: Review the ways in which you spend your time ... seen any part of your application and are not interested in your grades

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... times a week in the Stata Center, taught by Professor Bawendi; my 5.60 recitation meets twice a week in a different classroom and is taught by a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International ... Phone Branding in China European Panel: What Europe? Catalan Lessons with ... complete list) come and set up booths in Johnson, and students can choose

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... minority students easily and comfortably participate in minority and majority ... considered in the USNWR rankings. For that matter, you might not even be

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  . In between the airports and time zones is the real story. A Flying ... , but it was true. So I walked around the airport like the bird in the ... really thought I'd lost weight, showing my mom the t-shirt I bought in her

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from ... these questions rooted in our societal issues with the cult of youth blah ... health aaaaa aaaaaa trap me in a zero-sum game, as if my disinclination for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  is somewhat... lacking in substance (what is Spotify Wrapped if I can ... further ado... In 2024, the MIT Admissions bloggers listened to 686 ... . For reference, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Congratulations to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the ... do you mean  “I could choose to Double major in  Eating and sleeping ... emojis in the [annotation note='Campus Preview Weekend, but online during

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  consumer. No thoughts, just a constant stream of words going in one ear and ... . And before you ask, no! This blog is not sponsored by Audible. In fact ... audiobooks, including most popular new releases FREE OF CHARGE! In all

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024