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  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... address what every college and university has articulated in its mission: to ... children, may wish to look more broadly at the educational enterprise in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  wheel has to be removed to be able to get in or out of the car. Also ... 4 Gs? Better yet, are you interested in working on a team to design ... UROP, offers an exceptional opportunity to apply concepts taught in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  the lecture did happen to be a good time. We learned about how you get ... are caught up in their research, maybe just want to show off how smart ... right now is to discover how things work, to read that one book that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  still at the airport with no obvious way to get to the railway station in ... afternoon. The plan was pretty sound – my flight was supposed to get into Berlin around 11 PM, leaving me plenty of time to get home and get almost a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  more seriously in workplace environments, how to sound confident when I ... want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... ’ve been trying to frolic in the Great Outdoors whenever I can.  I spent a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... late October, monsters and ghouls love to get together and dance. Thus ... correspond to the music, but will be based on various signals. (Don’t get it

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  long run to government finances in the intermediate run and economic ... share a common Website to compare a variety of materials and exchange ... airline miles, since I get to travel to another country during IAP for this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  , so it's best to get lotteried in.) 4. Kelly asked, Hey Mollie, if it usually takes around five and a half years to get a PhD, do you know how MD ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  (ECs) in these cities, and more. Getting to travel the country, to come ... . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... Cambridge to Honolulu. Now, we're arranging our itineraries, finding rooms in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as ... and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all ... ’re not an applicant this year, but emailed me already, I’ll get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for high school. Sometimes it's possible to get extensions or have ... school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... Boston has to offer. Get started soon. Sometimes, you should just T it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... means we get to consider changes and additions to questions we include on ... a wonderful institution in so many ways and no matter how you choose

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  .  Even better, there is no standardized system for determining who gets to ... ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... something related to course scheduling. In many of these instances, had I not

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires ... them.   STEP 2: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN COLLEGE. This is a little easier than step one, because if you didn't learn how to drive in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  myself puzzling out how to implement a certain feature in the back of my ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep ... the opportunity, we had to try to squeeze in another restaurant visit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  . It's hanging outside my closet in a (probably vain) attempt to get the ... lottery in for tickets. The website is here, in case you're curious and want ... shot, but we decided to stop at my friend Cam's house in Vermont so the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of ... use most frequently in our day to day lives?! We immediately thought of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  departments, nigh impossible) to get a research position in your first year. But how do you get a UROP?  A good first step is to look at the UROP openings website, just to get a sense of what opportunities are out there and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  , and just get to know each other. In the last 1.5 years, I met ... happen. I’ll write some paper, it (hopefully) gets published in some ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  Station -> Red Line to Kendall/MIT), then here is how you get from the ... …no shame in being warm :) And get ready to have a great time! ERICK ... today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017