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• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  school, you should reevaluate your approach2. A big variable that still ... -potential, high-expectation environment is itself a privilege. Okay. Phoebe out. 2

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  ) concepts. 2) syntax. With your first language, you have to learn the concepts ... . With cake.") print(finalthoughts[0],finalthoughts[1],finalthoughts[2

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  cook for myself and explore Cambridge and Boston. 2. Stressing about lab ... . 2*. Yes, I complain about classes, especially 20.109, but even I have

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  background on the theory behind them. 2. Work on Examples. Your teacher might ... gets you excited. Until you have to do homework. 2. Go over one example

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  touches from home (hence the cheesy title): MIT Cribs (September 2, 2012 ... need for more than 1 or 2 dirty mugs at any one time, my friends and I

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  Boston: http://www.yelp.com/biz/lucy-ethiopian-cafe-boston-2?osq ... ? Well, with registration day sneaking up out of nowhere on February 2, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  more work. 2. Explore future career paths I didn’t spend these first ... ’t until February 2nd though, the day before classes start, so I still have

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  games (which I think at the time meant the 2-D Snake game on my cousin ... class, which ended at 2:30PM. Immediately afterward was the 6.042 midterm

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  seriously in my family. College Search 2KChel kicked off with a three ... Search 2KChel progressed, I developed some criteria for my ideal college

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  unless the staffer specifically asks you. Prepare for 2, 5, 15, and 30 ... 6am and dream about sleeping through meetings. - Part 2 to follow -

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  .  He told me to leave. At about 2:30am, I went back to bed.  There was ... . Patient 2 was passed out.  I refilled his water, left him a new bag, checked

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  both 2.670 and UPOP (my UPOP table had the best team spirit!). I’ve also ... left behind by volcanoes and luscious forests. It’s been almost 2 years

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  . Anna's personal Splash stats: 573 High School students 1 or 2 teachers (I ... to try and 1) turn on the lights and 2) make the projector system work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  Towers was better than Fellowship (1<2 was what I was trying to convey ... the movie (and keep the movie under 2 hours. Nolan knows how to exercise

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  inventory of all known species' conservation statuses, 2.1% of known amphibian ... rapid, unusual climate change and highly elevated atmospheric CO2"—mirror

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  while. Fast forward to, oh, about 2 months ago.  As I sat in my apartment ... priorities during freefall are 1) Pull, 2) Pull at the correct altitude, 3

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Cambridge.) SIGH. I will look like a zombie for 2 months ☹ But it’s okay ... excited to share with you all! This post will be split into 2 parts because

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  you need to add MgCl2 when you make worm growth media, or that TBST can ... 's 2 in the morning, and you still have more than 100 PCR reactions to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  joke in the biology labs is that the reason it takes an extra 1-2 years ... . 10 best nooks and crannies to study on campus 2. why humanities at mit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  Central Square, as in, it is roughly 2 short blocks from 77 Massachusetts ... health and half for my wallet. Their sticky buns will run you $2.95, and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010