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• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... to talk about what goes into an interview report. What we won't see in ... various projects you worked on or groups you belonged to and worked with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  to hear about how our year aboard has been going so far. Some pictures ... The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to a booth right next to Boris'. Despite spending more than fourteen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to ... little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  unanswered questions, let me quickly answer them before heading off to the ... how different our grade system is and how we don't use GPAs etc. My ... grading system it would be unfair on me to compare my grades here to those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I got to MIT and answer "how I could possibly work here." If we rewind ... a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... president of a dorm Built a CPU in 6.004 Learned how to CAD (computer ... Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the ... to wait until the very last minute. While I certainly won’t extol the ... doesn’t matter (e.g. has no impact on our decision) when you choose to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text transcription. Now ... position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... school year's tuition looming over my head, so I had to make financially

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  functioned as a more systemic method to organize how I felt about each option ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . No matter how much of a challenge your target audience may be to reach ... . Feedback – It’s nice to get honest feedback from a peer about how ... supplement of material from GEL. 3. Teamwork – Learning how to

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to ... accelerator? Build a particle accelerator! (Don’t know how to build a particle ... language. How else are you ever going to contribute to the conversation of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  modest person so I don't want to embarass him by saying how FREAKING ... can teach generations of MIT students how to create anything they ... MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much ... idea how to make one. Finally, I got the [annotation note="more to come ... on the Internet. Due to my lack of unboxing-video know-how, I didn

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  formulas and facts laid out for me isn’t enough, I have to know how to use ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... order to maximize the amount of information that I am able to distill into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  how well your classmate is doing. The goal, of course, is to compare his ... real-time how we measure up to others. This is a bad idea, regardless of ... told us, "how many times I've seen this happen." The goal is to fire six

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  fluorescent glare in the school library, to eloquently preach about how the ... -old's high school. We were there to listen to a presentation about a new program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... coursework, and that’s how to deal with all the parts of your job that aren ... , but luckily some of the core skills of the GEL program taught me how to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  about how to submit work on the web. While we will make every effort to ... music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a music supplement via email addressed to [email protected]. For performers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007