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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  do a varsity sport, deciding where to live, where to eat, how to manage ... . This is my first year doing it - I got to meet my 23 advisees today, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  questions it raised sent us deep into the Internet, doing research on the ... doing when Curiosity landed?

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  Solidworks model was finished, all we needed to do was build our toy. But many ... said and done, we're all a little sad to say goodbye... If I could do it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  though I will likely have very little to do with structural engineering in ... enjoying doing a full-scale project. Our completed trusses   Best

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  big-time...especially since I have a lotttt of work to do between now ... below - what did you do over break?

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  Hello, MIT Class of 2016! Here are some things that admitted students should do, now that you have been admitted... First, check out your My ... two weeks in advance, and we'll do our best to show you MIT. Link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  on Wednesday or do things to distract yourself from your computer. I ... do so that I could take advantage of my day in London. So I decided to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  sites manage to do this, and to do it well. Probably the best known

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  , Maita, and Steven doing... I don't really know what they were doing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren't mutually exclusive (programming is fun, amiright?), they do at times hinder

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  funds, Princeton grads doing art, Columbia grads doing urban studies

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  they all do different amazing things - math and music, oceanography and ... . We try to do what's best by MIT, and what's best by you. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  career choices? And the harder question, do we pursue something we love or ... "success"? In the meantime, how do we prioritize? Just my thoughts. Feel

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  accomplished what I set out to do: earn my graduate degree…at the cost of ... , what can I do ya for?” I drive to my favorite sight in all of Cambridge

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  critical to enjoy the work that you are doing. In my case, I found a good ... type of job that you are interested in doing. Keep an open mind (you may

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be ... , I don't need to be introspective or do any soul searching to figure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  you to make a well-informed decision as much as you do. They're not ... do is not ask at all and just have a vague worry hanging over your head

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  direction.  Frequently, the hardest thing for me to do is nothing, because I ... that the most important thing for a fourth grader to do, is to be a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  physics. I would not have been able to do an engineering degree. I loved my ... addition in high school, simple hard work, like putting the time in to do the ... not kid myself, and actually try to do the problem. Another study

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... your application in first! We do not read applications on a first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011