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  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  devoting to this class on a weekly basis. The majority of MIT classes are 12 ... lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running experiments, analyzing data, and preparing my results. With all of this on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  a good head on her shoulders. She's had a picture-perfect time at UCSC ... obliterate all memory of even the tough as rocks New England winter and life is just bursting out of every crack and crevice in a great green flood. On

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  ." There are a variety of ways to take these courses. Each of the science ... college fairs in New York City this past week. It was a fun week! First was the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  on Thursday I made my way from 2.007 lecture to the second floor of the ... up my vital signs. The third rider on the shift was one of the new ... once while he was on the ground, just for good measure. I saved that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  rest of SAAS again. Unfortunately, my phone dies on the way and I am so ... jumble of thoughts. It feels like a stereo is playing; on one channel, I ... their identity.  There was conversation on how a lot of South Asian

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  Met and MoMA. I had a lot of good food. So many people I knew were in ... This summer was a summer of many firsts. First time actually living ... of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  couple of weeks I set foot on campus, I've been involved with the SAT ... students may teach a class on ANYTHING to their students. A sampling of ... How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  all back with new entries. Cool. On the topic of blogs, does anyone ... Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all ... answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of ... applying to MIT. 'proto-' meaning 'earliest form of'. "]prefrosh ... , when students go to tons of fun events at dorms to explore different

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  a daily basis about school assignments, and I spent a good portion of ... lash out if anyone got in the way of me eating a specific thing at a ... grade overall was good for me, as I found a new place where I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  questions with answers that can be found easily on the website or that require ... is now much easier with the advent of threaded comments ... Class of 2017 has arrived and is doing Orientation.  Classes will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website ... send in a whole new version of my application? No. You do not need to ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to congratulate Early Action students on getting into MIT. It was... tough. What do you tell a high school senior during a surprise phone call on a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  . Just maybe not the same way that anyone else parties. Of course, not ... on my choice of attire. :) I did, however, take photos of all the ... One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  meet cool people through classes, who have pushed me to think in new ways ... make tens of hundreds of the same thing that all work the way you want it ... class focused on the type of controls where you look at how far off your

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  traditional phrases for good luck on one side of the slab. Surprisingly (or not ... fathers are seen clutching copies of Obama's speeches on the densyas and ... more efficient way of eating traditional sushi （

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  MIT was one of the few who (on their acceptance website) congratulated ... [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... the heck[/caption] I could tell the story of that morning-- the story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  called No Flip Flops which was full of pointers on how to survive a winter at MIT. I must admit that I also learned a lot of new information ... heard of them, don't feel bad. I learned about them on Monday myself. We

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... .g. experience on a sports team), and creativity (e.g. mastery of an instrument ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  . With the poor animals on the brink of death, present day me doesn’t find ... wandered off into the wilderness of the supermarket, intent on seeing the ... decision yet, I’d encourage you to go out of your way to form a concrete

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014