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  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... they are of value to us in the process. A number of students called me ... the interviewer will evaluate you in the process and what role the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  . That, in general, is a good strategy. Follow the cool people and make ... visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event ... @mit.edu directly. Packing Packing is a familiar concern. First, ask your host if you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best ... is not always interactive nor designed with educators and learners in ... automatically score them? How can we organize and visualize data in a way that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  have a confession; actually, it's more of a declaration: In-N-Out is not ... a lot of burger places, and it is not. Instead, In-N-Out is to ... MIT spiel in my sleep. The benefit of knowing a speech cold is that it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  lectures at MIT. MIT World has been in operation since 2001 and today has a ... , peacemakers, and scientists - and even a physicist who is a poet — Frank Wilczek ... in 71 countries. Leighton, who is co-founder and Chief Scientist at

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... 's food was real. Mine came out of a box: This neat little all-in-one box

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  completely forgotten the physics line number (18? 25? 49? 61?) In a total panic ... 'll both be in Pasadena post-grad (he'll be at NASA JPL). Hooray! A new friend :) Course 8 was next in line to Course 9, so I managed to get a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  professor he worked with (Daniel Kleitman, a professor in the Math Department ... understand!) A graph is just a set of vertices connected by edges. You can ... rainbow cycles, where a rainbow cycle is a set of edges that form a cycle or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  , papers, C-Show dance practices (more about C-Show in a later entry), random ... -matched with this Sunday at a short training session, and in just a week, we ... Speeches, etc) - but also feel free to stray a little bit. The point is to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  stuff in the back, and we drove home. I was home for a week, during which ... were three blocks from the White House. Rose is a fantastic cook, and ... stuff back to Ohio. I stayed in Ohio for a week and a half, then my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  juggle in our lounge in order to take a break from a grueling pset. What is ... , an empirial technician, and an ewok in a grueling three-hour, two-intermission-long show. Kenneth Kamrin, a graduate student in mathematics, works with the

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter ... . The whole college application process is one of back-and-forth decisions ... you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  write a more thorough entry soon, after some sleep. Hang in there - only ... proud of the class we've admitted. The predominant feeling, however, is sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the ... organizers Neera '06 and Janet '06 with volunteer Kriti '07 Women meet in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  enough chocolate in general to sink a small ship, midnight did indeed roll ... guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have ... that requires you to be a junior and proficient in, like, five different

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  favorites from the past year: Impromptu Concerts There’s a piano sitting in ... -100 piano![/caption] Juggling in Lobby 10 Many a night I’ve returned from a ... is a building with… many quirks… Some are annoying, some are

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial ... ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... , there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... a pumpkin crew yet, but this is my impression."]about two dozen ... more questions than it answered. “Two dozen pumpkins in just a few hours

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to ... is completely optional): "On a separate sheet, show us and/or tell us ... Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004