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  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  have made, engineering projects they are tinkering with when they should ... some advice from a current interviewer named Nikki Springer. Here are ... and the students I meet are inspiring in so many different ways

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  super fun and the two guys running it are very good teachers -- I love ... , but wow, it's really good!!), made key lime pie (and then angel food ... language is hard! But it's hard in a good way, the kind where you practice a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  10 minutes from where I live! Let's just say that I was officially ... " "But, but so are the Brothers Chaps!" "WE KNOW!" My month of waiting ... started grabbing free goodies. This is when I saw my first internet

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  ? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... haven't yet replied: As soon as you've made up your mind for sure about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  commonly) are free to put as much or as little money as desired on the card. This is pretty different from some other places, where students are ... "slop." Mmm. As far as residential dining halls go, there are four: Mc

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  out there. For those who are awaiting news on Pi Day, I hope this will be a fun diversion for you as you wait. And for those who are not awaiting such news, here are some fun pi(e) references! From yesterday

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  why my show has this name and where the heck it came from. You see, the ... —it's a time where I'm forced to sit down, relax, and enjoy music. And you ... and preferencing your ideal timeslots. There are also perks with having

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  to tell people where I’m working right now, because the reactions are ... research mentors are judging me—I told my research supervisor where I would ... ceiling?” “Are you this quiet all the time? You must be crazier in everyday

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... stressful! So we agree, we are all stressed. For this entry I propose that ... about admissions and instead transform into a cozy place where we can

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  where you are so much as what you do. It was humbling and exciting and ... . Admission to almost all of London's museums is free. And as we all know, free ... where high school Elizabeth sees works from her heros, Man Ray, Mark

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I ... every American working in Germany has said is that Germans are way more ... , Volume 18, Page 225, Published 1998."   Compare this to Germany where

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out ... made a bunch of jank formulas to find each question's response ... As of right now, there are 300 responses! WOW :0 Burton-Conner had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  at East Campus"]slightly dangerous ride[/annotation] and things are ... probably tell you where it originated from. I unfortunately missed out on a ... . They were giving out free EC lighters, too. I got one in pink, with EAST

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  ’s [annotation note= "residential exploration, a period during orientation where students determine where they want to live by going to a ton of crazy events, most of which are structured around F R E E  F O O D

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  . Then cut back to the beach, where Stephanie and her nameless friend are ... on Amazon you can even get a free cell phone when you sign up for a ... cell phone! You see a shot over from his shoulder where he's clearly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  are likely the ones viewing MIT admissions on smartphones, to whom I say “ptooie” because I don’t have a smartphone and I think data plans are a rip ... unplanned --schmooze --collect swag (too many free bags! Companies: more flash

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  freshmen are just beginning their MIT journey and everyone is asking "what are your plans for next year???" and I internally scream "I DON'T KNOW ... up for the Fall Career Fair and are interviewing with companies

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  the semester where things get hard, and some additional unfortunate ... I know, would have me help her take apart computers, and in our free ... fable where the fox convinces himself that the grapes must be sour, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  . Two of these made me love social science. The rest got me two summer ... these are with MIT WGS lecturers who only spend about 4 hours a week at ... spring and summer. Now I have the freedom to take the project where I want

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... had finally shipped the new book I had ordered, Monkeyluv by Robert ... when they discover that there are friendly, cookie-baking upperclassmen

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005