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  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  picture of me taken on the day my parents brought me home from the hospital ... pretend that it's only out of 4, because it's not. On graduate and ... MIT, I've worked as a UROP on two research projects. Freshman and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  of making money. Besides, I don’t know of any such program that gives ... of my friends and I rented an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge ... normal people stores [...] without the anime girl on it" and are "not just

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  what I could possibly need any luck with, and hit by a wave of nausea, I ... Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a ... , from mid-November to mid-April. It has the most volunteers of any single

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  honor of standing in a semi-packed lecture hall and speed-integrating on a ... will be a non-lame blogger and give you a lot of hard integrals. Last ... edges of their seats in excitement and wonder why the Superbowl exists

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... -900 applicants -- fewer than 5% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  thrive on challenge. Most of our admits have taken AP math and science ... and on. There are literally hundreds of amazing colleges and ... away from college, and I'm no expert on the parent side of this process

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  released, which defeats at least half the purpose of the whole form. And ... ; Wait?! I won’t have any grades before February 15th and Labs said MIT ... not provide any midyear grades, homeschooled students, and students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  , which themselves decay, and so on. Detecting the "signature" of one of ... some extra time at the end of class. Farhi sat on the desk with his hands ... speeds and create all sorts of exotic particles. Those new particles don

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students ... at your application again and consider it in the context of the Regular

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  Meet John (pictured) - master carpenter, master craftsman, and part-time mathematician. John is my neighbor, and for the last few weeks he has been constructing this "structure" in his front yard. I know that many of you are

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  a few weeks ago, and asked us to apply some of the concepts we learned ... , we’re working on an individual paper about an organization of our choice and group paper about any organization’s response to an important

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  Münchner, and I immediately thought of this title. The first thing we did in ... renovated since the invention of the shower curtain and thereby justified its ... bloody severed mannequin hands. I can't think of any way that you could

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  after a few years at MIT! I've become one of two co-leads on Contour, and ... "]2.009.[/annotation]  After 2.009, nine of us continued working on the ... research, learning the ins and outs of team formation, and testing our

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  -foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I ... " and a high school bully's demonstration of the Pauli Exclusion Principle ... room and he would, in fact, provide 20 extra credit points to any student

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and ... hands-on research if one has the motivation and dedication. This

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  out each other's names on sight and placing air kisses on each other ... had fabricated something out of nothing. I clung on to my friend because ... along with my friend, as I rest my head on her shoulder and scream out the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  CourseWare version of the same lecture that I witnessed on Friday: In ... cannot escape. My name! On a chalkboard! In front of an almost ... confusing moment, he passed around a Tupperware full of cookies and said

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  time goes on- so even though there's plenty of room for improvement, I ... .03. (More on that later.) On Thursday, he handed out the problems as usual and ... him to go out of this way to hand out these evaluations and then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for ... assorted set of Muji pens inspired me to keep going and take notes anyways ... green boxing dinner and treating myself to a spoon of food after every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... stress out about the consequences of not understanding well enough, and ... covered just 5 lectures worth of material, and it was worth 15% of the final

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010