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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... contributions or the work of other admissions officers, our roles in the ... students and parents, this is simply not the case. If you approach the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  to come here. I believe it would have worked out fine: I would have still gone to college, made new friends, learned to work hard, had a blast ... 's going to be fine. You're all talented and creative; you might not be using

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  work is rocket science," they started the interview with the question ... ? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something ... research students working on understanding viruses like smallpox. Dr. Rubins

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  in January after working with other students to poll East Campus ... choice," then worked with staff in Residential Life and Campus Dining to ... outside*! ~12:00PM: Vrajesh '11 (not pictured) opens the grand

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  working with the staff members in attendance to check in the students ... run alumni programs within their offices like I do. Not all schools use ... and feel it works well for us. One by one I’ve said goodbye to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  come back to campus but this time as an employee working in the ... kind of like freshman year all over again. I started working ... late nights (but not all night) reading application files. I didn’t take

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Let me back up. As you may already know, this summer, I'm working with ... , practice, practice. Which is why I'll be working on my dissection technique even more tomorrow. I'm not sure what Eduardo would think if he knew I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  change the world. Let's not forget that there actually is a world out there ... write, even if its only a page a week. Right now I'm working on a piece ... work of Erik Satie. So what does this mean for you? Basically, don

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  of the blue." Nevermind that his principle work is on dark matter, not ... solved that. My colleague Eddie Farhi worked that out, in fact. Conan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  fear; you will not be released into the wild, unpredictable territory of ... Senior year. I began working in the Lab for Multiscale Regenerative ... his department that acts as the MIT representative for the thesis work

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  with different model numbers. However, they were not given spec sheets ... that this all-nighter was a lot more fun than when you worked all night ... working on the lab. Happy Thursday!

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  work to do because you have too much and can't do it all. And there will be weeks where you feel like you're not good enough. Just remember to ... lot of work, to relax sometimes and hang out with your friends. It makes

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  like how MOSFETs work and signal filters. I can already tell that this is ... the underlying concepts of the code and not the specific implementation ... operations that are applied to the inputs. It's kind of like working with

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  week leading up to that moment doing nothing but eating and working on the robot. (Sleeping, not so much.) As a result, my floor was covered with aluminum shavings. And to no avail, since my robot doesn't work at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  our Financial Aid Office, who, even as I write, are busily working on your financial aid packages. I'm not sure which office is busier right ... ) will be mailed their packages at the same time. We're busily working

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  , who is an MIT professor and Nobel laureate who worked with Fire during ... familiar, it's probably because you've seen the work of his distant relative ... . Unfortunately, he does not seem to have any MIT ties =( Don't despair! Today, in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  sleep. Oh, and we worked on problem sets (after which we ate more food ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as ... . And it may or may not be your dream school, but at the end of the day

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , 300 companies are on campus trying to recruit MIT students to come work ... looking at colleges, I remember wondering if MIT graduates only went to work for technical companies. I later learned that's not the case at all (by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  to the gym to schedule classes. And then I have homework! And not just ... . Well, only the first two paragraphs are due tomorrow. I'll make it work ... WORK SAM HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WRITING THIS STUPID BLOG ENTRY?! If I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  most versatile words in the MIT vernacular, if not in the recorded ... raise this term because of my three years of hard work for campus minimum wage. Nice!" verb -- to work in a UROP "I'm UROPping until 5 today, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006