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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was ... , failures, and experiences in between. For starters, my past few couple weeks ... Sloan Business Club! I didn't go to any recruitment events for SBC

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... best decision for them once MIT announced its plans for the fall. On July ... space in the class for students who have remained on the wait list.   To

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  excited for everything that I have lined up! This sort of breaks down into three parts. Classes I'm super excited for my classes this semester (and for the rest of my MIT career, honestly) because I'm finally done with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  traditional ingredient used in your recipe for a healthier choice (you will have ... addition to a set of custom-designed Apple Bake mugs for the top five winners in each category. There were also prizes for the entries that won Best

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  For the past few days, I've been walking around with this weird ... and continued on with my life. I avoided social media for the next 24 ... sunny Sunday afternoon. But there I was weeping. Weeping for people whose

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  semester which is different and wonderful Oh, boy, I have been awake for ... staying in Cambridge for Thanksgiving, and I understand why now (so much ... so that I could go home for less than a thousand dollars. The fried

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that ... serve as a force for the betterment of society. The key for Thresher is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  , or UROPs. For the 6 courses I'm taking this semester, I have 1 End ... -August. 2 of my courses are project-based. For those 2 classes, my project ... final papers -- due in mid-June -- to count for the majority of our marks

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its ... -funding initiative for its students) for another idea they had (“like Uber but for ... would be far cheaper and less labor-intensive. So for the last month, the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  year since 2004 while directing the Media Lab's Center for Bits and Atoms ... (almost) anything: it's a semester-long crash course on making for those who ... good idea for a while, but after an hour of congratulating myself on how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... “punky,” and I felt welcomed. I never expected to work for the U.S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  The writing process is different for every one of your favorite bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I'm able to sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can ... discover. For some background, my high school was tiny. My graduating class ... . Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and eating them like an actual horse 3) It's time for those of you who ... ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for ... for a sophomore year elective. Since then, that project has grown into ... White House ​advisor for ​mobile and ​data ​innovation. He will work with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  problem they want to solve, the users for which that problem exists, and ... for which we’re creating solutions. So, for instance, we can’t design an ... . For instance, GR1 is about defining the problem statement, identifying

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  through EMTing for a bit to help myself. It's all figured out, right? Where ... awesome fabrics for space for firefighting for everyday use IT ... internships and friends that I had. I'm excited for the next step (a real job (I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  ’s MIT-speak for “undergraduate research”), I work with a team of awesome ... , econ, poli sci and others– for consideration and the top 100 finalists ... compete for some serious national recognition and prizes. In our first year

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  that art for art’s sake is reason enough. As Robin Williams said in Dead ... alive for…That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the ... mind the other day: Poetry is important for the same reason that a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... posted here.  I was an interviewer myself for many years before leading the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014