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  Match Game

  

  to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT ... research. Fostering a collaborative environment is an important part of the ... that good stuff isn't handed to students on a silver platter, but for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine ... chooses a few promising ideas and starts working frantically to get a model of the idea finished. Then there's a big, stressful, majorly important

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  , so reviewing important concepts took a while, but the class is really ... because it’s a CI-H. I, uh, I needed to take one of those or I’d be put on a ... the 10-minute walk to class. Overall, the class seems like a lot more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  Cooking" and "How to Make a Bike". Or those who want to explore a new field ... to do with turning an idea into a commercially viable business—from market research to finding a team to prototyping to fundraising to hiring

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  with the Alumni Association to create externship listings that might be a ... to internships in that you meet people in a field you might be ... them! Nobody had a good answer to how they ended up where they are, but

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  .. can I have a look at those?" She says, "No." "Oh, and also, you have to ... - freshmen are temporarily placed in a dorm, then given the choice to relottery ... and illogical to keep a few freshmen out of the rest of the system. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... an admissions blogger to watching a movie every night for PNR. College ... with MIT, but it just gives you a better opportunity to meet more people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  . Yeah, that did a lot to clarify any questions you might have had. Fine ... , though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life ... participant. Fast forward a decade: our team continues to chug along, picking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  , lots of chemical engineering, and oh, a fraternity. I tried to stifle a ... describing a solution to a chemical engineering problem that involved dozens of ... . Even if you know you only have 90 minutes or less to make a great

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  go back to sleep. It had been a late night of work for both of us the ... Office)  where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different ... ! She comes out and treats me to a pastry and coffee because that's just

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  nothing wrong with dropping a class. Or two. Or three. It is important to ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... than I thought it would be, which is a good thing. Sleep is important

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  's worth $400 now... ---- Looks like I decided to write something at a ... to writer's block is to have a nice cup of tea while listening to some ... stop typing for more than 7 seconds.   This works to cook up a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... . Do a UROP -- Undergraduate research is kind of the thing to do around

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  going in to lab.” When Emilienne started her UROP, she spent a lot ... the varsity track and field team, I decided to take a chance with the ... while. It’s always amusing to watch a group of mature researchers

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  room and leaving a few posters on the wall. I was going to college. I ... course, i take a top bunk, and immediately try to piece together my ... movies, a fan, an animal pillow" [my eyes continue to wander] when i pan

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 ... -competition. Antonio wore a Garmin watch, which he used to record his heart rate for all ... to how we structured each rep. After each strenuous climb, we spent a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play ... issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , swayed by other factors important to me, including distance from home ... I had attempted to be (for lack of a better cliche) jack of all trades ... group or club. It’s important to keep in mind that while some anxious

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  something along the lines of "I think you're asking this to get a gauge of ... Hi blog readers! It's been a few months since I've graduated, a time filled with road trips, starting to rock climb climbing, hanging with

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 12, 2021