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  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  conjunction with your application, the interview is not a substitute for that ... . Come prepared with questions for us. The interview is really more of a ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  have gained many rights, the reality for transgender folks (particularly ... . The same is true for transgender students. We know that struggling with ... about the community you come from and a hardship that you’ve had to

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  ’t think such a word exists. I’d felt that MIT was a place for me. The ... that was a senior at my high school came and visited MIT for the WISE ... each and every day, and my meeting with a Professor Hammond gave me the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!

  

  A few weeks ago I sent out the call for new bloggers. We had quite a ... who to invite into the elite ranks. Unfortunately that would be a lie, and I'm still disappointed that we couldn't find a place for more of the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  weird." I'm excited. Hopefully by the end of the semester, I'll be a fluid-flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there ... , he looks like a really nice person. His face is the most indicative of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  when I discuss science with the public. Last weekend, I gave a talk for ... weeks. So, thanks for the excuse to take a break and blog, Chris. This ... über Christa T. (The Quest for Christa T.) by Christa Wolf  

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  . However, out of all the development I've ever done for a company (in my very ... rather, Paul had the vision for a new service that would cause a paradigm ... I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  for a workshop hosted by the Urban Metabolism Group, within which I have ... made a "syllabus" for my summer. I gave myself goals and intentions ... , Leslie Marmon Silko A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Odds ‘n Ends There's a video. And a SONG. Your lucky day.

  

  blogger, the one who always makes you go "How'd she get hired?" I'M BACK! Yay! And I made a video for you guys. Double yay! And I pulled out ... , Spring 2010) for the feature I like to call "Obligatory Doodle": Okay

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ecosystems And Web Sites A science question & general check-in.

  

  biodiversity" survive for five million years without any direct contact with the ... ? I told you guys - I'm not a science kid. Hook me up. In other news, I've begun my big summer project - redesigning the admissions web site. The new

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously, which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  write a separate blog post for the subject!!! Have a great summer guys and ... and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... ). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  research during the pandemic. I saw a blog post about the undergrad ... . The talk inspired me to do a computer project with my high school ... message. I want to share my story with you and thank you for all the amazing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  (wonderfully blogged last year by Michael) is tonight. ‘Tis the season for ... school who also ended up on the East Coast for university, see Big Fish and ... , but that kind of failed. I didn’t bring a nice camera, so all the videos

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  fall (and sometimes a good chunk of the spring) visiting half a dozen ... egalitarian in that way. We really want to do our best for the students and ... are the schools that have 15 or more applicants to MIT (wow, that's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  for a few hours and we felt great. But the puzzles also came steadily ... . (During the hunt, a virtual version also unlocked a little later for teams ... on the team “We Can’t Hear You, You’re On Mute”, a team traditionally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  on a personal blog, but also for the admissions blogs in the hopes that ... tuition. When $5 was a big purchase for me, the idea of college for free ... felt for the first half of my life. I use the word "half" not for a sense

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  myself up for. Yet the thought of these days being them all bubbles up a ... company feels the same, but instead I either use my expertise for a probably ... , craving to do something, having nothing satisfying. A dullness in the in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  considering a possible course layout for the next year or so, seeing where to ... the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a ... the real You in your essays and in your apps as a whole. It's okay to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  site, for example -- but a pretty similar look and feel. Many of the ... leading a project to redesign the new sfs.mit.edu and mitadmissions ... chance to blog a preview and talk about some of the design decisions we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018