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  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . However, if you are offered an interview, I would recommend you take it. Not ... indication of how well you did. I want to stress again that this is just a

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... second fall I’ve spent in a place with real seasons. Or that every other ... *gasp* enjoy the problem solving process.  I love how I have free time to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  , you’ve probably wondered: How does MIT make so many pumpkins every year ... [annotation note="I may be wrong about this estimate because I’ve never been on ... months before the sale. When I first learned about this fact, it raised

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference ... in lab watching the hours go by until I get an interesting data point ... paper-hungry but not with regards to money, but to how many journals I can

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday ... blogged about, unfortunately in the same entry in which I posted a really ... of which I decided to avail myself while preparing for my class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... guys are excited, and in a little over a week you will all know just how ... would try to catalogue EVERYTHING! I took my camera, two memory cards, and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... Hello. It's everyone's favorite angery boi... KING CRIMSON!! I don't really know why I introduced my post like this, but this dude

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  : "..." Friend: "...I freaking love this city." Here in Seattle, you see, there ... minute -- did I mention F/A-18s? Those would be the Blue Angels, the ... bicycle polo.   And meanwhile, here I am, in the midst of it all

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  . Had we not put in all this extra effort though, our scores would have ... . In retrospect, we wish we would have really, truly internalized “it ... projects in the Maker Portfolio (we think she said yes, as long as you

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... empower communities via tech education and highlight bias in algorithms. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  . "Sounds good, how do I start the puzzle?" you might ask. Well, if you ... undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for ... .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  Bon Pain in the NIH Clinical Center (which I justify by the total ... mug), hanging out in New York City, and more. I’m really only getting ... , sinking in. Could it really be true that I only have one year left at the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of ... [email protected] if you would like more As for more Qs. How will ... requirement for this program, and I landed in Milan’s Linate airport on January

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I ... , though I’d never competed or formally trained in any way. As Winter Break ... that first race, but I must have made it down in one piece. I may have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  sense of how engineering practices differ around the world. (I'd like to ... Laura Stonehill, an MIT senior majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent her summer in Venice, Italy through an informal internship

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  restrictions and rules of being in a sorority. I don't know how much I can talk ... 't expect. People would often immediately think I was weird off the bat, just ... way. I think, as I type this, I still don't regret my choice to live in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  .       In some ways I've found recovery harder to ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and ... all of the above. For the first Marathon Monday in awhile, I'm trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Hell, but you all bond in that mutual suffering." I can't tell you how ... Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  guilty about having not blogged in a little while. I think I may have said ... , so I'm going to go through them all in this entry. These are totally ... speech. I also didn't know what order the ceremonies were going in. During

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008