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  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  contact information for your EC is to log in to your my.mit.edu account ... applicants to the ECs in their area. Some ECs interview for just one school so you and several of your friends may get the same EC while in really

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  UROP in the O'Connor Lab. The lab's a part of the chemistry department ... involves techniques in molecular biology as well as biochemistry and organic chemistry. I came across the lab's website last year when I was looking for a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case ... iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... collaborate. Now, at the new Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., he's trying to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... . According to MFA website: "From the late works of Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and ... exhibition explores major figures in twentieth-century Europe, from late

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  more on Dheera's website) In my transportation seminar, we ... computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  Corridor actually ends... in a parking lot Favorite thing about Boston ... . In fact, it was not until Sesame Street began broadcasting 30 years ago ... about a move, I suggest the following website: The Internet Movie Database

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... 're quite interested in finding ways of making college admissions and the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  admissions website, we will send you some information in the mail. And please ... admissions officer glances at in an application? Do you guys (officers) have ... information in the Part 1 -- name, town, school, etc. There are no numbers that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  ’m early in my grad school journey. There are a few major differences between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing was a nightmare—the day the portal opened, the website crashed almost

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby ... PEOPLE ARE HERE which is, in fact, just as accurate as having our names up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  they were participating in a Media Lab study. (Yes, we would dash from ... subject lines like “free leftover iceberg lettuce in E52”; in fact, a single TikTok in 2025 delivers more dopamine than we would experience in an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage and back into my dorm room. Moving-in day is my second ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  their numbers are growing. When you come on campus, in fact, it's almost ... combating poverty, improving healthcare in Third World countries, or anything in between, MIT is pushing international development forward on pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in Killian Court under the sun, blogging about MIT (with not a care in the ... have their merits, but in all honesty, most people here use laptops. If

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’ll reopen my firehose/Courseroad/[annotation note="website that shows which ... ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... writing class"]email[/annotation] or Google Form in early August, then

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  life got turned upside down", I figured I might join in with the chaos ... make custom cardpacks with this website for good inside jokes Settlers ... feature calm task-based game Minecraft - got a project in the works :o

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or ... tradition.  Every freshman class has a Ring Committee, who put in tons of time ... specific set design). In February of sophomore year, the design is announced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... Public Library, and in the company of all those who ran before and with ... , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017