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  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  admissions advice. Hmm.... First, here are some previous entries on specific topics: Advice on the college interview (Mitra) Advice on the application essay(Mitra) Clarification on what exactly a "good match" is (Matt) But

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  prospective student) with MIT student hosts (more on this soon), putting ... and listening to Dinnertime Sampler on WMBR. Tonight's guests are ... going on this week at MIT, as always -- a video art lecture tonight that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  me wonder why I don't see more people listing fishing as an activity on ... understandable; I remember doing a bit of that myself on college apps. I vividly ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... lecture hall Sleep before midnight on most days of the week Don’t lose ... Oppenheimer Catch up on One Piece?   Finish a podcast series Write a short

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  this was and how i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. missing out on two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... - thursday - today's going to be working on the 6.004 lab all day. i'll have to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  SMASH stands for Students At MIT Allied for Student Health. I am on ... resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need ... issues on campus. We brought up some really good points, and the number one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me...  but more on that later! This blog isn't about the lesson I learned this ... Engineering students. The course focuses on educating students about the design

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  many symbols on it in honor of various events and ideas. Some ideas ... apparently the class of 1999 was the first to have the Hacker's Map on the ... references! On the Bezel's sidewalk is a footprint, commemorating the life of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  complications, I'll be graduating from MIT on June 9. (The ceremony will be ... grad/family dorm on the very west end of campus, tomorrow (omg so excited ... gone -- don't! I'll be living on campus. You'll probably see me in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to ... instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds ... what I had due this week: Monday -- nothing Tuesday -- 21A.260 paper on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here ... theme is “Wild Wild West” and we plan to deliver on this - come to the ... ’s events! If you click on the little magnifying glass in the top right corner

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of ... astronomers over cocoa. Later on, you can find out more about how the first ... find coding events on campus, whether self-learning or learning to make a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on public transportation and in bed, and one on what I do at work. on where I ... I live on a campus. While I was at MIT, I found myself wondering how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and ... working on in their spare time. Maybe it was a really amazing new computer ... 'd answer. I know you're VERY excited, and probably want to start working on

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  that goes on here. Case in point: over the past year or so, I’ve been ... which place a big emphasis on hands-on work and building. I ... funding from the Edgerton Center, they do quite a bit of fundraising on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  On Friday afternoon, the students and staff of the senior capstone ... on Mythbusters. Along the way, the teams do some fun engineering projects.  On Friday, that project was to take revenge on some egg

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  chase. On April 30th, from 11am – 4pm, MIT will be offering 160 different ... glimpse of artists in action on one of my first days wandering around the ... creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  entry, Kevin '11, Joe '12, and I had an on-camera discussion about how GEL has affected our view on leadership. For your reference, Joe starts ... The Tech, went on a field trip to MassWeb, the newspaper's publisher

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on shape and the prominent beaver on its bezel, but the specific details of ... first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  online application on or before January 3. If you are applying on paper, have the Post Office postmark and mail your materials on or before ... appear on your Application Tracking. Our records office is fully staffed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009