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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes ... everything I try to say sounds like it isn't adequate enough of a description

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  So, by a show of hands, how many of you are stressing about college ... that’s a lot of you! Last year around this time I wrote an entry called ... a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  -scratch inventions and creations get our attention in the same way that many of those ... look around MIT for lots of examples of cool projects, like: Disco ... MAKE Magazine and MAKE blog. Both the zine and the blog highlight many of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  leave it out at room temperature without fear of food poisioning. This new ... subtleties of group theory in a rigorous yet accessible manner." But, well, I ... UROPs in his lab that he's actually just one of the most hardworking and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack ... ice cream. It was all quite delicious, even if a certain member of the 224 suite complained that we stole one of their ideas. =P I've been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  matter how attractive you are, there are plenty of people at MIT who are way out of your league. Professor attention silly the willy asked, How ... is my UROP professor, who loves me because I do lots and lots of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  grad/family dorm on the very west end of campus, tomorrow (omg so excited). All of our stuff is carefully packed and ready to move, and I am super-excited about our little apartment. So all of you who are fretting about me being

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  engineering that was based off of my initial comment that I've never experienced ... 'm done with all of this deep discussion about admissions and learning from ... lot of time to show me things. (Each crew must have at least 2 people- a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of ... plain left blank...but the cool part was that I got nearly 100% correct of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  , Dec. 22. Monday marks the beginning of the end, but why not have some ... campus on the last semi-sane weekend of the semester!: Friday: 2 ... Surgical Treatment of Gliomas in 54-100. 8:00-10:00 (?) PM: MIT Symphony

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which ... individual, not as part of a group. However, you are allowed to collaborate ... with a lab component), have lab groups. Some have a series of smaller lab

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of ... sending in some of your work. Be sure your standardized test scores have ... recommendation forms, what are you waiting for? Teachers get very busy this time of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things that my MIT professors have said. Actually, some of the things are more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  Lots of people thanked me for my application advice, for which you ... whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once ... graduate students? Have you or any of your friends started researching for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before ... 're the director of a math/science academy? I know the spelling's not a ... my uncle (who is the GHAMAS math guru) of his entire linear algebra

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  ... a new version of you? (Did anyone watch Felicity? These lyrics are from the theme song , which JJ Abrams, the creator of the show ... unpacking priorities: Look, a river view! I'm on the 2nd floor of my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester ... favorite day of the semester is actually the day they put up the full ... 't think it counts as my favorite day of term.) I know for sure that I'll be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  -retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my ... , Adam '07, and I moved to D-Entry of MacGregor today. We had been living ... one of those celebrity clubs. Check out our sweet setup: The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo. Although I have been watching a great deal of Law and Order this summer (it's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005