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  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post ... papers (mine was on dopamine receptor genetics) and doing well on the first ... in Mammalian Biology) class that the MIT biology program is doing away

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  . Having an interview with MIT does not violate early agreements. You do not ... than we do. If you are interested in playing on a varsity sports team at ... we all must live with. So, do yourselves a favor this weekend and work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  and thus oxygen mass transfer in E. coli fermentation, and I'm doing it ... or something TODAY!!" and "AHHHHH!!! NO PRESSURE JUST DO YOU HAVE ... 's all, "Oh, I'll just do it tonight! Maybe you can come over and we can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  'm thinking of all the work I should be doing instead (which is something I ... , of course.) It's a balancing act, certainly. But I do feel prepared ... you who have applied EA, there's pretty much nothing for you to do but

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  a few days). Sendie asked, "Hrm... how many apps do you usually ... the same guidelines. Ultimately, we do not admit anyone until all of the ... (which does include geography, among other things). We do not admit by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  (you're still going to do it, right?), so long as no pictures are taken ... cheerleading can be found here -- it's a better picture mostly because I'm doing ... best you can do is send in an application that reflects who you are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  walk in the same way that humans do. Ming says, "The idea is that babies ... she is working in a cognitive science lab. She came to MIT to do ... years here. Ming says that doing research is the best way to learn and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  do we answer these concerns? Yesterday, the Admissions Officers had an ... example, do you know that we have one of the best faculties in the country ... can do a UROP in HASS. Currently, UROP students are being actively

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  bathroom. We get our own private bathroom! Do you like my rubber duck shower ... until we have actual work to do. We have a nice view of Burton-Connor and ... sleep if he didn't put the AC in. I'm so good at what I do.  

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  November 2004, so I've got a handle on what I'm supposed to be doing in lab ... 've started making a summer to-do list), and also looking forward to doing some

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  mistake." (I don't know if President Hockfield will do the same this fall ... do understand the matter comprising our bodies and other "ordinary ... questions: "What is the dark stuff?" and "How do you think about such a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... Furstenberg is quoted as saying, "We do these letters to try to introduce some ... day to make my decision...). I do think these likely letters, though, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  though. He's been doing it forever and he's amazing. He'll look at files ... meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel ... rail on a Saturday or a Sunday and do some exploring (you can easily get

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  I still do Mystery Hunt, where we both spent three days last weekend ... still occasionally do musical theatre, and CJ still occasionally square ... an ending, do they act any differently? For the past seventeen months

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  meaning again. It gave me confidence. I felt dangerous. I started doing Muay ... bit too, just so I could keep doing training. Now, I’ve started doing weightlifting in addition to my regular training. Doing that martial arts training

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  context of a human rights-related field, doing mostly national-level and ... fields led to my current job. It has nothing to do with my undergrad major, but it has everything to do with my attraction – which I had then – to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  dedicated to doing a bunch of random projects and learning activities. The ... enjoyed it a lot and might do something like this again in the future ... everyday we do a hike, pack a picnic, swim in some cold lake at the middle of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  -year gets a list of 101 things that they should do before they graduate. Since ... ✅ Inviting myself into randos selfies is always a fun thing to do… Take free ... , and I have/had no confidence in my ability to do that. Watch the sun

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  out the other while walking to class, while eating, while doing chores, and oftentimes even while doing [annotation note="I can only do this if ... my brain. And now that I’m at MIT, I can only occasionally do this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... of this to encourage anyone to let go of everything. I'm doing more

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023