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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  how you vow to reinvent yourself, you will still be yourself at the end ... how many times your mom yells at you to pick up your clothes, you ... had intended to give mine to another relative but forgot to, and so they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  could interview me over email for an article she's writing, on how ... responding to her questions, I realized that my answers may be useful to others as potential MIT '11s gear up to begin the admissions process. Below is

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  about how important it was to do well in school." [...] McGee recalls ... head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I ... Heroes," based on local, hometown news articles about students goign off to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  when I didn’t know how to begin, he asked me what I, ideally, wanted to ... major in? How will that tie in to what I want to do in the future? And ... my choices. But how much does that really matter to me? How much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  it’s like to live on Conner 2, or plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to ... time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage ... posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick ... you who might want to be bloggers to share your thoughts with the world! What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? The best representatives

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  lead and how much they contribute to our Air Force. In ROTC, during the ... opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the ... Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  , from how it emphasized research to how it started kids so young. He saw ... bent, so grows the tree’. Teach small kids how to do things, and by the ... wanted to teach students how to write papers and proposals, how to read

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  like, socially. And no matter how I try to frame it in my mind, making ... -than-acquaintances-not-quite-friends-yet, and a lot of [annotation note="idk how to characterize levels of ... to really tell how reciprocal it is. IRL, you can easily see the people

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  therapy to get some sense of how to move forward. And yet, everyone around ... disparities, imagine how hard it must be to actually be in their shoes, and to ... do about it, or how to deal with it. I know that it's things like these

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed ... (#11) to write about it. ------------------------ Merudh wrote: "HOW DO

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  to it and how best to react. My first layoff helped me put the employer ... sometimes, no matter how hard you work, you're just going to fail, and it's ok ... from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  applications that a lot of prospective MIT students are interested in how to use ... about who she is, what she's doing, and how people at/aspiring to MIT can ... it takes more than one gender to build a just and fair world.  How

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  taking us around the machine shop and giving a boring explanation on how to ... . In the other two sections we learn how to draw and use CAD, and ... part, and learned how to ream, countersink, take a rough cut and finish

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  'm just excited to see how I did on these tests, even though I know I didn ... to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going ... ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  . In our brief conversation, we talked about how it can be difficult to ... morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and ... to me late yesterday afternoon: "what are you doing between 10-11AM

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  just to have you leave a few years later. I know how important it is for ... Career Path to Motherhood." The author, Louise Story, speaks with several ... she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  , figure out what you want to say, and then figure out how to say it ... .  How am I supposed to know what is most important? Me:  You decide what ... -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it ... wonderful lab instructors, explaining how the lathe works to our team. The ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013