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  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  ’t perfect (*gasp*). The Common Application and MyMIT both experience “glitches ... . Last fall, my parents, teachers, and friends all provided feedback and support. At least six different people reviewed my main college essay

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  speaking to as many students as I could. I'm writing notes for my colleagues about my journey, and I thought I'd share some of them with you all to see ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SpringFest 2014! Just a quick post about the 2014 SpringFest Concert featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus!

  

  saving activities.  But my personal favorite event was SpringFest's annual ... Scavenger Hunt, and they were really awesome! I got to test out my new camera

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  starting my MEng in computer science and molecular biology and TAing 6.005 (elements of software construction), my favorite class at MIT (tied with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  a pre-CPW post, and this is my CPW update, informing you all about how ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East ... end of the night, some of my friends and I ventured over the Spring

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  New Hampshire on my couch in the sun, alternately working on neglected projects and napping while my mom watches old movies and unpacks Christmas

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  around 10am, got my pass and a guidebook around 10:45, and headed over to ... —the company that created one of my favorite arcade games, Castle Crashers ... Dear Esther and Journey. Live video game music is one of my favorite

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  helped me realize that Course 1 wasn't my destiny. SO WHAT IS THE BOXED I ... high school. It was my first project-oriented class, and I was really excited. Little did I know the depth I was getting into. Me and my teammate

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  across the main island. In my typical fashion I arrived at the train ... enough, a job offer found its way to my inbox in January. Here’s a normal day for me: I show up at 8:30, my supervisor and I talk about what we

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  accessing MyMIT - we're seeing some unusually heavy user activity today (even ... , but I'll do my best to update this post as soon as I hear any further

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students ... want to practice networking. Those that just want the free swag. (My

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post from the MIT Alumni Association's page that caught my eye... The Great Gatsby as a video game?? So cool. After doing a little digging around, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  ?!?" Baffled by these little men, I tracked down my friend Steven '15 (my go

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... is one of my favorite television shows. During one recent episode

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term ... lets take a peek into my day:   6.002x (Circuits and Electronics

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, '87) and I spent some time here at the Institute. My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his ... something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  something my mom would say to me, but she never actually called me Margaret Mary, and my status as the youngest child meant she knew my location at ... myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my

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

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  . My interaction with Prof. Silbey was in Spring 2010, when I took 20 ... my favorite professors I've had at MIT. He managed to take something ... , in my book) that could get away with using Comic Sans (the other being

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  It's 2am, I'm up reading about plane crashes (more on my classes later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT ... now, back to my regularly scheduled tooling*   * except I

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  events have happened in my life. I experienced the best FPOP ever aka DPD ... my first MIT pset. As you can imagine, it's been hard to devote my ... amazing things happening on campus. Nevertheless, my love for the blogs and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011