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• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... ! Perfect!! Great!!! So, I applied. And I had a interview. And I showed a game ... organelles of the cell. This is still very much a work in progress, but we have

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of ... Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... provide your updated grades since you have applied, and to mention other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... repeat of what you wrote in your application. It will mention some of those

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  Happy[annotation note="now end of lol"]middle of[/annotation]July! I ... of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... part of MIT-Washington's orientation. [carousel image1="101766" image2

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... , still a respectable amount of time by most peoples’ standards. Saturday ... match of the season, instead of the spry, bright-eyed youth that I should

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  some core part of myself they could still easily reach out and touch, unaltered by three years of transcontinental distance. It was my first time really hanging out with them in about three years: my family moved out of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  , Physics I, and Principles of Chemical Science."]18.01, 8.01, and 5 ... I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year, and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or ... !’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... trying to find a UROP because of this, and instead waiting for an opportunity that felt right at the right time. This did not happen for all of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to ... . However, over the years, I've heard a lot of advice and have even given some of my own. A lot of it is standard stuff, stuff that you'll hear all

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  Several things happened last week of note. Monday was the first day ... considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house ... family like mine. Unfortunately all this came at the cost of 2 full days of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... is. I've seen plenty of it before. I've seen it piled 3 feet high ... Halloween just weirds me out, man. Seriously. Yikes. Speaking of weird

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  /Terrascope Acceptance, but none of these apply to me, so you'll have to look ... . Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of sage advice, most of which I had wish I wrote down and saved, but I didn ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was swept up into the chaos of starting the school year, which has been a special and different type of hectic every year that I’ve begun classes here

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -supporting adults do. The illusion of adulthood: it continues. In the last month and ... ; naturally, 99% of the words spewing forth from my facehole have been ... -fail guide to cleaning my bathroom instead of writing about my most significant

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  . It's good to see all of you :) So what's up. It's senior year. This is ... been emerging a lot - this is my LAST fall first day of classes - this is my LAST fall first day of lecture - this is my LAST time pretending to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  of time/money? they ask. As someone who they'd heard had participated ... graduate of Hamden High School, #6 in my class, good grades fine scores ... the tether of this place, there's something about these walls, something

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and some that I didn’t and wouldn’t. Then there is a section of what I wanna do next semester! This blog is a sine wave of academic and personal

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  beautiful study room in the fifth floor of the student center that was ... powder.) (The great thing about cooking in college is that regardless of ... around to eat it. Never underestimate the stomachs of hungry college kids

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007