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  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  upstream, as it nursed a school of smaller fish. They swam, avoiding ... greeted the family of the school of smaller fish, and left the smaller fish ... was offered popcorn by a friend, and the two of us were left in the ESP

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab in the middle of my time in the GEL program and contemplating my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  , elementary school) whose child has known for a couple of years that MIT is ... a good sense of this.  There are some things that are intentional ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... -day, six-school driving tour of schools of the Northeast, spring break of sophomore year of high school. Yep, that’s right. One school info session

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my ... and delivered them to companies and my school's Board of Trustees. I ... school across the street. When I got to 9th grade, I was told to be wary of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  missed over fifty days of school each year since fourth grade, and I ... winter around here. I'm done with yet another MIT Wednesday, consisting of ... mid-afternoon. It's been a busier than usual couple of weeks though

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... of emails since Saturday and a bunch of blog comments, all asking for "just a couple of sentences" about why a specific applicant was not

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  School of Management. Frank Lee, co-founder at Bevi. MBA at MIT Sloan ... Simmons, founder at Curative Orthopaedics, designer of comfortable ... invest in. I found out about them from one of my friends, Yasyf M. '17, who

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  /conflicts can occur. We were designing this game to be used within the context of ... ;:((((((((   7/6/23Lots of museums in Seattle offer free admission on the first ... went on   8/21/23A friend of mine from both work and school told

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build working alpha prototypes of new products. Students learn about creativity, product design ... testing mockups; customer evaluation of mockups; embodiment design; and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  ] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and ... mockups; embodiment design; and construction of a high quality functioning ... (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool ... engines by using the water jet or CNC mill to etch designs into their flywheel, cylinder plate, and bearing plates. Basically, you draw the design

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  of A/B/C. As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, you may designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis after your first term, and at any time during your course of study.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as ... and the fabulous glamorous divas of popular culture. Got it? Now ... of their new music, t-shirts, posters, bracelets, branded water bottles

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  Event Outreach Chair of MIT's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - one of ... school students to participate in an exciting annual event presented by the MIT Society of Women Engineers: The Exploring Majors Fair. "Through

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women ... -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... -MIT adventures, I have less to offer you. But! I still know undergrads! I bumped

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students were vicious. Pretty much everyone has passed through this phase of life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... waitlist is part of the college admissions process. Schools don't yet know if ... concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... school right now, otherwise I would ask him--is this computer terminology

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  & Grad School)' section; check it out for further reading on this topic ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan ... ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006