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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  "]MITHIC[/annotation], which is a platform for collaboration between the SHASS and departments in ... recognize her face and her title, but what is the President of MIT like on a ... love?  It seems that this may be the easiest question of all for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... over the years. I am grateful for all the memories and laughs we

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  . enough rambling. =p 1. Froyo is meant for experimenting. So it is the same ... like this (through grading the exams for the SAT Prep program I direct ... I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the ... taste other things for the rest of my life going forward... After that I ... Challenge. The Green Building is the tallest building on campus (and the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  the money part work for you. Period. Stu Schmill is one of the most ... sessions are great, but the best part is the informal bonding with the only ... celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  week when the schedule is released) or a set schedule for all employees ... their experience and ask for donations to the university. This is meant to ... compensation for the project. This is pretty tame, with almost nothing requiring

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... comes. The MIT career office is a great, under-used (from what I hear ... ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  : that the only official qualification for coming here is a certain level ... company for de-stressing purposes. I turned the corner towards the ... zillion articles for nature newsletters, and goes running all the time (I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your ... specific technical configuration (the way an abstract process is practiced ... is more than a job. That's the tradeoff every admissions professional

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  chance they will come here this fall, since MIT really is the best school ... from a [annotation note="Fiji is the nickname for Phi Gamma Delta, a ... that most undergrads would say that housing is one of the best parts of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  : "Describe the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school ... just go with the wind but find my own direction and horizon. I look up to ... stumbled out of this place having found just that. (The following is a non

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  .     Over and over, I learn that the way I do best is when I ... called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is ... . Math Competition X that I never made the cut off for. Oh and Math

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  best home for them. The more outgoing hacker-types got involved in the ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm, East Campus. (The dorm goes by EC for short, or East Campus Alumni

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is ... the tasks involved staging things, which is getting things ready for ... coolest parts of Esperanto. For example, the word malsanulejeto is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... big deal). Basically: academic failure is not the end of the world, even ... best things that ever happened to me. I realized that a person is NOT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  legit one of the best things about MIT--you can register for as many ... months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  health issues. The key, as I have observed, is to genuinely care for each ... looked around my room. Messy for the past month, it was cluttered with ... filter for the past few days. After staring at the ceiling for half an

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  of your time wading through the endless linkbait that is mitadmissions ... usually no.) This is not the story you were expecting to hear, was it? I ... , when I was competing for entry level jobs with the experienced employees

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  is the instant, visual feedback for what you're doing. I loved adding ... isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... TypeScript is now my favorite programming language. What happened? The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022