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  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how ... interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  our projects last week, and this recitation is about how to turn those ... to do is set up some positive controls and put it in the plate reader ... home, i lose all motivation to do any work whatsoever and i just lie in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  think change is great! (I do plan to stay in my current house, job, and ... 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

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

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  you the boot in the butt and tells you to get lost. And then what do you ... wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly ... months I have been secretly training in chess with hopes to beat Aidan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  , but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... majoring in CMS and looking to get a job in the gaming industry next year ... conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to buckle down and get seriously serious about my education. When ... class so I could sleep in. That’s OK, Joel, you’ll survive - you can get ... to in-class concept questions. That’s OK, Joel, your grade is high

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  you try to take them in your luggage out of the country, you can get ... likely to stay in place, with major policy changes. When I ask how my ... -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  their lives and we headed over to Kansas. I've since lived in Kansas for ... Living Situation: Now on to fun stuff. I currently live in East Campus ... orientation to MIT. The week following Interphase I also participated in an FPOP

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  detail, until we get to dinner. In short, the event was the world premiere ... knuckle pool because nobody really wanted to walk 5 feet to get the sticks, suffering great pain in my knuckles because I did not conserve the momentum of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  .math.& tech. academy in the midwest ranked 8 of 667,she didn't get much respect going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... plates, which are usually allowed to be stored in some common area

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  , it's the only way to fly. I don't care how you take it, but my CPW ... Chinatown (and I live in Minneapolis, the state's epicenter), so I HAD to make ... -so-cute-yet-not-very-intimidating mascot) crowd surfing later in the night? It was the perfect end to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  is that she knows how to get herself produced," said Krevolin. Last ... articulate and clear way. She is precocious in her ability to organize a ... , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  lighthearted, a great conclusion to the evening. People, dressed all in red ... , threw my shoes in my backpack, and skated down to the Longfellow bridge ... enough, a line with 2 people in it (as opposed to several hundred, as was

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo ... ’t have some great life wisdom to share or huge post-MIT takeaways. Or ... apartment hunting, and figuring out how to use a dishwasher. Not entirely

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  needed to get back on the grind. From my [annotation note="though in many ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  , leave a comment with the URL. Let's see how many we can get! ... I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to ... & stories from CPW. In the meantime, some random stuff in no

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  dots in advance to know how to position the starting frame when we ... ://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19318310[/caption] To project all these reels with no noticeable breaks in ... frames or ⅔ seconds. Pretty confusing, but you’ll get used to it relatively

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... assigned to narrate a short story of our own, in both our favorite and least ... what is to come to me as it just so happens I was and the in the items in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  's just so hard to get through a whole book in a non-native language. It ... reflect some recent letters to the editor which had been published in the ... in the universe?" pointed to it, and asked "can science answer this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008