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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  available today would not be up to the task of doing this entire project ... class will be doing UROPs with Lander on the Human Cancer Genome Project...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  , finding their niche, doing wonderful things - sometimes we even start to ... rejected applicant - I know that my feelings do not compare. But at the same

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  ) I have to do for the office. My silly notion that when I blog, it ... "Not the same few colleges," but I hope my point is made. Yes, we do our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  as flexible as possible in these situations. When you’re able to do so ... benefit or advantage in doing so, and you should feel at ease applying
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your grade in the class; if you do poorly you can simply
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  admission are. We couldn't do that without a thorough review of an entire application, which is what we do during our admissions committee selection
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  other blogs. I do read all of your comments, and even if I don't respond ... fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every ... to do just that (some questions I have replied to directly and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on ... session in freshman fall, he read us wild geese by mary oliver. You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  ']sunrise[/annotation]happening? 7 terrace ❤️​ to “ 7 terrace ” Do you want me to wake you if you ... essays? [annotation note='i knew he was already doing misti for iap (our ... summer I'm in the IAP program Ohhhhh You plan to do misti after graduating

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself ... , and of all the things they could do as a friend to make me feel better

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  ). Sometimes people ask me why I'm doing this to myself, but I just tell them ... . I'm sitting in classes, taking notes, doing homework. This is most of what I do these days. I'm putting my nose to the grindstone, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  doing okay? How are you feeling? What's your emotional state? I find the ... many people do care about me, people I wouldn't thought to have ... safety net. the good I'm trying to navigate things on my own, like how do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  . you tell them about how, last spring, you banned yourself from doing ... , and a few months into your role you still don’t think you are doing a ... doing with your life - why are you spending so much time reading about ai

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  understand that they don’t actually have to do anything just because I told them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then will only do the bare minimum that could be considered “sitting

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  the feeling of constant creation, of always writing or coding or doing ... about doing next, because there's always something to do next. here's two ... learn this internship? and my manager asks me things like, what do you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... fully aware of the nature of the world can do that. but once you realize ... first i said i wanted a system to decide when to do things for myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do, but they didn’t really know what I should do either, because they knew ... watched me do a lot of math about the amount of taxes I would have to pay

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended ... . This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... myself actual food." I'd say that during the semesters, I do an okay job

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  class, but I do build things on my own time! Currently, I'm trying to make ... estimate of RPM by getting the pitch of the sound being produced! I'm doing ... how likely I am to Do A Thing today, we can ~extrapolate~. To figure out

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  and think about what I want to do with my life. So this summer, working ... this past year. And wow, have I grown. What have I been doing? So many ... that prevented me from doing this during the semester, admittedly; it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021