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• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  difficult to leave my job in admissions since I have really enjoyed working ... also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... well share my advice here for those who won’t get to hear it in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  Frebel from the Physics department. In 2007, Professor Frebel's team ... starry sky Professor Frebel made at the Las Campanas observatory in Chile ... Time Traveler Convention, held right in East Campus's (my dorm

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  A typical day in East Campus. Okay, it was not quite typical. It was ... . Regardless, I covered my costume, went to a really cool meeting in the morning, went to my class, handed in my problem set, and went home and crashed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... caught a disc was in the end zone, scoring my first point ever. Memories ... IAP, throwing myself into all this sprinting caught up with me in the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  ), the City of Boston is shrouded in fog and a light sprinkle of rain. This ... measure. In response to this announcement, MIT officially closed at 3pm ... Charles. As for me, a group of people who normally live in B Entry packed

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  myself and my colleague Dawn Wendell, a Senior Lecturer in Course 2 (and ... culture (where students build unicycles in their dorms and hack all night). One of the most fascinating things I discovered in the course of writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized ... cell phone buzzing in my pocket and loading the text message my brother ... your covers so you're not in public when you find out. You might want to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  (100 yards) in droves, and receive a free t-shirt as a reward for not ... badly sprained and a small bone in your foot was broken. Courtesy of a ... with the wheelie chair and the ramp, which landed you in an x

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  act like you're in elementary school again. You wanna become Doctor Who ... give in to the hype that males aren't allowed to enjoy things that may be ... . The brony fanbase is arguably one of the most accepting social groups in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... to get them to you in time? A: I previously answered this incorrectly

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... in that class was fine-tuning our ears by being guided all over MIT ... Programs, which you could listen to here). The final project in the class

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right ... , I’m Lydia. I’m a sophomore. I’m in courses 6-7 and 18. I’m not in 7 ... classroom on campus, a small room in Building Four within hearing distance of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... in posts about Charles Guan, was crackling with crazy creations. Their ... fill this venue from the melted-down materials within a year. In stark

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in Kendall Square in Cambridge-- a global innovation hotspot (and in MIT ... .96 (Management in Engineering). Our class was split between graduate and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  applicants must be able to demonstrate proficiency in at least one programming ... qualities, which leaves me wondering how in the world it makes such a ... ) staff about this, and they said some interesting things in defense of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of ... common solvent, which those of you who have worked in labs or even used ... purity, so we need to remove all the unwanted stuff in that stream. That

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in ... there is in me. I remember when I told him last year that I'd gotten ... . A big tear welled up in his eye, and he said: "you know, that's what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  So I'm currently at NACAC in New Orleans. I'll post more about the ... months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in ... involvement that used to happen in the blog comments now takes place elsewhere

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  freshmen are just starting to filter in due to FPOPs or international ... what in the world we're saying.  No, maybe you're sick!  Or down!  Or ... , in my mind, is the mega-resource.  You can go to them for just about

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked ... , and write exciting papers that would be published in exciting journals ... career in research, I needed a very specific plan. I had no plan, but that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011