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• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  representatives (some of whom tried to disguise the fact that they were representing graduate schools, some of whom said "you applied to our graduate program ... into a little suitcase and dropped it off at the hotel reception, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location ... green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of ... eclectic assortment of MIT undergrad, two cats, and a brood of hens. Every

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  peers, it seems like "post-college plans" are a dreaded can of worms that no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until ... came after 6th, and of course, college after 12th. College. Something so

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  Govern of the the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT or maybe the ... 's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the ... the Visiting Committee. The Visiting Committee is made up of members of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  Art of Fugue. Since I'm a singer and terrible at piano, he let me ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... ) and provide evidence of the completion of my music concentration (3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  of just doing medicine. At this point, I just kind of knew I wanted to ... before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two ... jumped around and had a tour of careers: judge, astronaut, movie star

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  . Experience the weight of knowledge. Get frustrated at having to ascend or ... better or newer one. Go to Central Square at night. A lot of characters ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years. Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of ... . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2 weeks. I'm working in Oakland, at an Asian health center there, serving as one of their summer interns. I'm really learning a lot (including more

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  out, too. Carly wrote, "I'm kind of worried about the food situation at ... -a-week plan like many of my friends at other colleges, which allowed me to 1 ... MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. Here are some of yesterday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... good GPA, and (most importantly) have a lot of research experience, including two publications and three glowing letters of recommendation. Of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The ... limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me as a faceless recluse, I haven't been posting because of a drought of ... to blog. Here's a quick summary of my last two-and-a-bit weeks to prove

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  of MIT's externship program, I spent IAP working at Monster (the job ... characteristics rather than temporal durations, although each of those eras happens ... most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  , polarization). Of course, at the time I'd only had up to 8.03 and was attempting ... What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... research. I'm sure all of you know by now about MIT's Undergraduate Research

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  ; A fountain at the entrance of the Watergate building, my first day at ... Yesterday, Friday, was my third day working at the Atlantic. I ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  . I still cringed at Mufasa’s death, and by the end of the second volume ... depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  section of my analysis. In the plot below, I looked at the percentage point ... Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope ... respond with a message of their own explaining their rationale. I ended up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  kind of took it for granted at home. You know what? I actually thought ... to volunteer at an orphanage and cancer centers in Mexico City. Of ... all about The Month of March. Not that it's over. But it's pretty much

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  teaching and learning philosophy of MIT, and exactly what makes it this burning furnace that, through a lot of heat and pressure, turns all of its ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015