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

  

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference at Yale. The idea in a nutshell is to ... a Group Leader in charge of getting my group of students around the ... ) before the college fair [Ed. note: Louis was a question

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , my dorm, and the opportunities I got as a rare HASS major. I stayed ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing ... I live, we’re in a bubble. On those days, I wonder about all the cool

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  some brief updates. Sandy: If you have been affected by the storm, for ... . The same goes for materials submitted by your teachers, counselor, and ... looking for missing documents until we post a blog entry saying that we have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  might help you be a good lawyer, but it does nothing for you on the LSAT ... The sixth in a series... With less than a week until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time

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

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  times a week, we meet as a whole class for lecture, and the main lecturer ... class and providing motivation for learning the material (Peter Fisher ... ). This makes my life as a window into the MITverse easier, because then I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  if the 2021s will actually get a graduation ceremony though. It ... faded into the background of my college experience. A Monday night when my GRA would make waffles for our hall; a particular fencing meet; walking

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  brace for impact and hope for the best. You have to fall with them a ... things just a little bit better for the people around you? Not, of course ... —cooking every day for a week, writing poetry again, attending the occasional

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for ... , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I ... behavior, often with a profound statement at the end. Why, for example, do ... - but somehow, I've left out the classes I've taken as a freshman. Let me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Susan Hockfield’s Private Concert La la la la la la la laaaaaaa!!!!

  

  Yes, we are this cool. We perform our drinking song, in capes, for our president. Also, last year, the Marching Band was a bit more destructive. As you can see, Alex (a prefrosh then, an '11 now) decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  . :-) ------------------------------------- Taylor wrote: "Is there a deadline for the midyear grade report? It says to ... , and what is the usual admit rate for international transfer applicants?" The admit rate for transfer students - both domestic and international

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  and gain intuition for finding the solutions. Sometimes, I have a vague ... privilege in a year, or four years for that matter. Maybe, that’s the most ... . Through the Council for the Arts at MIT, you can get free or discounted

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  become a role model to the bulk of the community that watches. For the past ... bonding, good food, and a good game. So of course when the time came for ... Paterno did a lot of good for the university and this community. He was more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  Pardon me for the grammatically incorrect tonight title (in the ... the end of the day, they aren't going to do your psets for you, or call you up and remind you to study for the big physics exam next Wednesday

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a ... printers to make a sorting station for wires, the power tools to… feel cool ... for dinner, I won’t be spending a precious 20 minutes on the commute. 7

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... ’m not strong enough. The real impetus for this one was after a ... drink to make for a group. I spent a lot of time watching Sex and the City

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  : Come for a great night of international dinner, featuring cuisine from around the world (Marisa '13 makes the best creme brulee for your life ... maintain a balance between the two groups. The best way to get to know us is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the ... was so helpful, teaching us the basics in a workshop, and even met with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... A mutation or a C to A mutation, I'll let someone else tell the story this time :) This is a guest blog from Jia '11, who's the Public

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009