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  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  supplemental portfolios may feel especially useful. We offer portfolios of the ... Submit section at the end of each portfolio in SlideRoom. To request a fee ... the words of a wise colleague, “Don't throw spaghetti at the wall and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  start off my first day of my sophomore year with 21G.703, Spanish 3, at 12 ... concept of "firefighting" within businesses, specifically looking at product ... because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... should be very soon, at which point I will blog very loudly about it (hint) Today is the day of that loud blog, because last week we officially

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  (#MIN87) being at Bullhorn's new headquarters on the 17th floor of 100 Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... /Oliver Queen. Source: Imgur   Every time I go to one of these events, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  Science and Engineering) APR (Association of Puerto Rican Students at MIT ... I won't keep you in suspense, I feel like I fit in pretty well at MIT as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... fellowships, with families at home and a mindset of just getting through the ... if I were a baby; when I was ignored at grocery stores in favor of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• 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

  

  humanities at MIT were very much a thing, and Anne Hunter of course 6 fame, who ... was Good at Math and Got A’s in Math and I thought that was the kind of ... confusing. That’s something of paramount importance at MIT, where new and

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

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  Competition! MIT Technology Fair - a group of undergraduates dedicated to ... we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity ... and technology. We're offering amazing prizes - including a scholarship

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  subsidized and offers financial aid. Here's a little more about them: Minority ... residential summer program in the MIT Dept. of Electrical Engineering and ... to one of these programs, don't procrastinate! MIT K-12 Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  has been one of my most treasured experiences at MIT thus far, and I am ... translate to a variety of actual careers. I'd tried my hand at menial labor on ... offers in hand. Both were good. One would start with analysis of water

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  wasn’t religious at all, so most of the quotes didn’t mean ... ’t think I had much chance at getting into the Symphony Orchestra ... preparing an audition piece or go through the torture of auditioning. Luckily

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  all necessary. In the past, most of the non-Jewish members had at least ... a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians ... of a mix of undergrads, grad students, and other people, some of whom

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  wacky architecture, there's a large presence of dorm culture at MIT. In ... offered us an impromptu tour of Random Hall, which we gladly accepted. And ... befriended Aiden, who would eventually become one of my closest friends here at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  applications. For the extra space provided at the end of the application (pt 2 ... poorly in classes, MIT can rescind your offer of admissions.(In fact, many ... Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  about the club and fashion at MIT. Looking through past issues of the ... ideas about developing community at Infinite.  Structure of board [Masha ... and in my [annotation note="of my beauty and, at times, self

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  gatherings offer fantastic opportunities to meet some of your potential future ... admissions officers are celebrating the end of application season. Also, this ... incredible team of Educational Counselors and other great alumni to put

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  to hold so much life at once. It can be the kind of quiet that invites ... with us at lunch, how Deans of DSL and MIT psychiatrists shed their roles ... This week, I spent four days and three night at the Salvation Army

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... friend at the quad-turned-makeshift-memorial. He was one of Johnny's best ... the greatest kids showing up at the freshman orientation of his new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  the Fabcreator laser cutter at [annotation note="one of my favorite makerspaces! Consider this blog a tour of labs at MIT"]IDC[/annotation]. This ... learned about all types of making, from woodworking to 3-D printing. I was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  month, Glenn passed at the age of 78. You can read his obituary in The ... . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one:   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017