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• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  we do in admissions, and what we can do to improve our process. One ... collegial idea-sharing, I've returned with some thoughts on how to improve our ... are considered in our admissions process. MIT is lucky enough to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  ; MIT kids spotted in an unnatural habitat       get u ... For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in ... areas in Athens   people added for size comparison    

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... of my time in lab last semester and sophomore year was trying to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  printed and are sitting in boxes waiting to be distributed to YOU when you come to the Student Center to check in tomorrow*? Oh no! How will I ever ... want to major in** Eat liquid nitrogen ice cream High-five Tim the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms, decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people there (not just from a viewbook or description). After that, you get to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I ... incredible, at least to me, in the sense that I have literally never seen ... while before it was time to get back underway. He also did me the great

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  between classes to get some breakfast. Makes cup of coffee to drink in my ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  them to not be conducive to learning. In order to help teachers, we need ... materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best ... pedagogy together, there are tractable issues to solve in existing online

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to learn how to solve problems, many of the world's most pressing problems ... Poverty. (I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  , finals week, etc.) Please try not to request a visit less than 2 weeks in advance You can only select dates up to 60 days in advance During ... students, and starting in March, the program is only open to admitted

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  French Quarter. How did you spend your spring break? Eight students in the ... in New Orleans, from buses to streetcars to the ferry. We biked around ... everywhere in NOLA, from the decadent parade floats that seem to be a year

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  , I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen ... a month ago, and I couldn't get myself to edit it. But now - I ... truly this holds. So 1 and 2 - I biked to this cafe in Central Square

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  in the arts faculty that I finally decided to check it out and squeeze ... !). In addition to staging performances, Central Square Theater works ... creation of plays about science in addition to discussing the cultural impact

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  yourself is going to lead to the right outcome for you. This is true in whatever you do, not just in applying to college.Fun fact about yourself: In ... think change is great! (I do plan to stay in my current house, job, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  to be scanned in and then submitted; there is no electronic version of ... interview form and we will be sure to get the interview report. Midyear ... /17, we should know this. Please fill out this form, so we can add a note to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  learning how to pronounce German consonants from an mp3 file. Now I can ... successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  —if you wanted to dig in more, it’s laid out well on both the blogs and ... their class ring to celebrate being halfway through their journeys. The event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  to MIT many times, you would expect to get in in approximately 1 in 3 ... course in probability and/or statistics, so you might as well get a head start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my ... making decisions like what job to work at after college. i think we’d be in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... . However, a closer inspection points to a significant variance present in day-to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016