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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  to be in this massive chat, and you get a pretty accurate view of what ... of take some time to answer any random questions like “how often can ... than trying to learn about the school. During the Q&A you also get to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  I joined GEL because I want to be able to implement my ideas in the ... ” of multi-disciplinary engineers was tasked with trying to get three ... different teams will cooperate in order to achieve that goal. Why is this

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  opportunities for me to get my work in one of these. I argued that even something ... idea, and we’ll be making plans in the next few weeks to get it done ... . About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  like it here, I might have to get the application in.”  WISE and fly-ins ... they were called fly-ins and applied to several. Daymé heard about WISE ... was the first fly-in she applied to.  Daymé had her heart set on MIT

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact ... some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If ... in all the things that don't change from week to week. Like, say, class

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to ... there any point to thinking? putting too much importance in what other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  wonder how I am getting paid to do this job... I should be paying them ... excited to commission as an Officer in the United States Air Force, to have ... 't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ."]PhD[/annotation] programs.  Well, I don’t really have to make a decision until if I get in ... community back in high school, and how I hope to extend that love to the ... I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  , so as to get internships, or get in to grad school? How much will you ... have done this to get in, and doing this won’t necessarily get you in. I ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... each other instead of simply strategizing on how best to stay on top. He ... require the world to think in much broader terms. And until aliens from some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  who are brave enough to live in the dorms with your kids! You'll get a ... meetings. Not complaining, just want to get the facts straight so that we can ... thinking about a career in medicine? This would be a good one to attend. 12

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  out trying to understand how everything works and in what ways you can ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... that in engineering, it's not that difficult to design individual

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... came to America from China in 2000, having just finished second grade

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ... consider applying to American colleges in general and MIT specifically, if ... , who placed third in the world at IOI and will be arriving at MIT to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  science. Mine was the type of school in which women were encouraged to take ... surprised to see Elizabeth named GEL ‘11 class leader for next semester! In ... answer, unfortunately, in 2010. While in a cab going to the airport from

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ]\tau[/latex] (the Greek letter tau, usually pronounced to rhyme with how but some ... every circle’s circumference to its diameter is exactly pi: in other words ... [/latex] gets at an even more fundamental relationship that is present in circles

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  really just in here to see how many of you will even read the post before ... enough to get in before you checked online, and your friends and family all ... it 5.03 these days) ever get shortened to "Inorgo"? I hope not, because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  old are my kittens dammit" "How do you get kittens to sleep at night and ... and in exasperation had gone to stop & shop and purchased her first ... CT in the middle of the summer to pick up the kittens. Chris came w/ me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008