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  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... Artificial Intelligence Meets Mon 1:30 - 3pm First-year Discovery class Gender ... are gender and race? What happens when we start to measure and model

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  something else to the table. Listen first, talk second. With full attention ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I’ve hit that milestone this semester and would like to share 21 thoughts I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  an email to these students with this information as well. We use MailChimp to send emails to prospective and admitted students. MailChimp requires that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to our jobs. Throughout the day, the first wonderful surprise of the ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much smaller role in my life. I was very wrong. When I came to MIT last August, I decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... 's Spectrum newsletter that goes out to "friends and supporters" of MIT. I agree ... closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any possibility that there might be some cons to the pros - to me, MIT was perfect

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... . And it's all free, from the airfare to the hotel to the sunset walk on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  options. When I thought about where to apply to college, I started first ... about the students' choices. With all respect to these students, I ... with the results. You decide where to apply and, ultimately, where to

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  applications so I don't have to survive on ramen alone in my first year of grad ... (read: cheap; there were no cheap tickets from Columbus to Boston last weekend) and decided to create her own Parents Weekend this weekend. She

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , the first assignment was also the most daunting. The prompt was to write ... ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... to their majors. The requirement’s purpose is to make us more effective

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  Introducing the world's first-ever* joint MIT admissions blog post! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... Halloween, everybody! Cam: First, we have a Halloween story. There are two

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  To be honest, my weekend mornings are probably less exciting than ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  your first calc pset. Just be excited for now. =) To Jess and thekeri ... almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling moldy. By Sunday I'd had been well enough to visit first east's team ... largest of which maybe measures up to 1/5 of this one. One of the first

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  creating a project, we first had to choose a prompt. We were stuck between ... it here, but since today is my last day here, I wanted to write a little reflection post on everything I've learned and taken away. Firstly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. But first, let me answer some FAQs. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  ; Thursday - Begin to Freak Out Thursday was the first day we didn't have ... Boston after surviving my first MIT finals season. The verdict? Lukewarm ... freshman have ~PNR~ their first semester. This means all classes are reported

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught ... . I lied to someone's parents It was[annotation note="Parents come to ... brain is too sleepy to think, but too awake to fall asleep. [-100 aura

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it to inspire people to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. Here's the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016