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  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  the blogs. Note that the answers reflect my personal experiences, and do ... senior year slogan is “do all the things you might regret not doing later ... has a sub-culture as well. Our hall has cats. And we do lots of cool

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  political scientists, that answer questions like: -- Do UN interventions cause ... really, as seen in Indonesia, more here) -- Do charter schools improve students’ test scores? (the Massachusetts urban charter school do, but the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  have a lot of persuading to do), I love biology and I spend a lot of my ... reading, but if you do decide to read ahead you must read until the end ... , and you get to decide what that lab works on. However, in order to do

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  is the village in Kaffa, Ethiopia where I've been doing the water ... , streams, and rivers? Third, how do people “get” water? And lastly, this ... pipes for the area or someone's doing plumbing maintenance in the building

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  to try a back dive off the board even when all the younger kids do it ... experience. We do have some people on the team who have raced previously and ... proud of myself. If you want to get better at something fast, do it six

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  what to do step by step, what variables, etc. Then, you learn the syntax ... to adopt a new syntax.\n") print("So how do you start? Do you pick up a ... chapters before I got interested in doing other things."] sophomore

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  to pretty much anything, so if you’re still doing some last ... actually follow it or not, at least allows me to calm down and start doing ... hours, do it, take all the allotted breaks, score yourself. If you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  : what am I doing with my spare time? Sleeping? No, that's what I should be doing. Different concept. *stares blearily at computer screen, stifles a yawn* What I'm actually doing is a wild variety of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 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

  

  , but here's a note to all you other parents out there: do not do this ... wanted to do computer science, but I didn’t want to be surrounded only by ... do know someone with a very slobbery ‘cat,’ if you know what I mean

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  than that. What I do know is that I never really intended for it to be ... lot to do with my age juxtaposed against the sheer size of the book ... book, followed by an in-depth review by a professor. And I do mean in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  In my last entry, Meagan said, "Anyways, could you please do an entry ... , but you do it anyway, for that great moment when you say, "aha! That was ... almost the same thing. "What do you think of my friend?" "Me cae bien" = I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  , and it was up to us to crack the case - which we could do only by ... required me to do a lot of crazy things, including (but not limited to ... would you do this to me?" "It looks straight...forward." Josiah '09: "I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  , thinks 18-year-olds ought to be doing. Not many sleep eight hours a night ... at MIT by a series of student suicides. Students "want to do everything ... they're doing something where they're not being judged. That's the big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a ... to do next. Now that I've spent the last few years in "science," I ... just enough to be okay with doing it for the next five years (and maybe

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  to get a recommendation letter from a current MIT undergrad student? Do ... rec and a humanities/language teacher rec. Do they have to be a teacher ... count?" Evan responded: "The recommendations do not have to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  'd hoped for, what I did, and what I'm hoping to do. I mentioned being ... the work I’m doing, and the media I’m consuming, but damn could I use a ... skipping hangouts in favor of doing work. All this alone time, though, is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  ."]friend[/annotation] what I'm thinking. Considering how much writing I've been doing, and to ... for your submission to Annalen der Physik. We hope that you do not take ... . Should you have any questions about these comments, do not hesitate to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  actually have control over. I waited for him to tell me what to do, hoping he ... morning, showering, eating breakfast, and whatever else I do when I ... , staying put is probably the best thing I can do. I don't have Senior Ball

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no ... studying, but if I wasn't learning it properly, I wouldn't do as well as the ... studied the nights before for many hours, doing review problems and re

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Period--the month of January where students can do as they please (take a class, do research, go abroad, take a long winter break, etc. etc ... competitive, we thought it would be fun to do something where we could actively

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025