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  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  Career Week. Events of Libraries Week include: Photos with Tim the Beaver ... ) Classes MIT Geocache Photo Exhibit Food for Thought Beyond the Library's Walls: Tools, Services and Solutions (You may remember the affair someone

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  A few thoughts from this week-- The rapid onset of graduation seems ... friend who urops at my lab about our research over gluten-free cake in the ... of the sink. I'm going to miss nights like these. Then we trekked to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  touch with one of my favorite English teachers - indeed, one of the best teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to ... 's already going long on the overall process. Early one morning, I saw a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  Just a quick post here - I'm actually on the road right now, doing ... along the way. (As for the other stops in Texas - Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston, and El Paso - Kim has been hanging out there!) Well, it's off to the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  So, the past week and a half or so ("has it really been that long ... life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and ... Obama rally the night before the primaries. I've never attended a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  began the painful process of defroshing. I learned that, no, I was not ... mode - did a little work, chilled out a lot, ended up on the Dean's List. I ran screaming. I wanted the firehose education and my east side

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  Boston's North End and is well-known for its delicious cannolis. Over the ... motivated me to venture out to North End two Fridays ago and - for the first time, visit Mike's Pastry. (I *actually* wanted to go to the North End

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... from 9 other roommates and mailing out the rent checks, making the switch ... the biggest change from being a full-time student to being a full

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  completely new place with new people, new challenges, new thrills, and the same old me. There’s change in the air too, and with every breath I take inside the MIT bubble, I feel myself growing in so many ways. I want to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  -set." Punts take various shapes, from kittens meowing on Youtube to the entire ... logged into an online page for my Electromagnetism Class and saw the p-set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... it here, or let you read the full text below: It is truly a deep honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  This time of year, Educational Counselors all over the world are ... be something new, but for others the meeting with your Educational Counselor (EC) may be the first interview you’ve ever had. Some of you may

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... , you can see the article here. Basically, what I gathered from the article is that the US is no longer the superpower when it comes to

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  The cherry blossoms are out and the students are slipping onto Kresge ... and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... if you have any real problems but at least your summer will be in order. The

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  Directory Introduction Is product management right for me? The Interview The Format Question Types Behavioral Framework: STAR method ... ultimately came to the conclusion that I really liked product management and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last ... demoed my final project before the last day of classes, with my two final exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to America's Test Kitchen, the best possible ... blog. The reason being that costs me twenty-five cents to send these ... the local 7-11, well, the local one that wasn't shut down last month for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  in his college workshop, during the Christmas break when no one else was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up.” The only condition ... understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013