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• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  's true for biology is pretty true for all of the natural sciences). First ... I'm interviewing at five of the top seven programs in biology -- and ... the members of graduate admissions committees are professors and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  exercising without the pressure of pushing myself to be better and better ... Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at ... the swim test lol) For the first time, I have no mandatory soccer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe, the bay area, wine country, and Monterey, you tend to be a daycationer

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  step out of their slumber and into the courtyard. I put a patty on the ... couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... what happens, the show must go on. You have to maintain composure and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  pouring rain to the Z center for dance practice, or feelings of panic and ... on the plane home, and then got home and found out Sam had written his ... , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment ... synaptic cleft and bind to receptors on the outside of the postsynaptic ... neurons, and I was wondering if you've heard of the theory that neuron

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  from the Department of Conservation and Recreation, you'd better hope you ... 't know what happened to your week. Fortunately, it's not most weeks of the ... been very comfortable behind the wheel, and I relax most when I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... , many too many things. By several orders of magnitude,[annotation note="The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  Bombers and for having the largest concentration of Kosher keeping Jews on ... . Once. And that pretty much constitutes the entirety of my previous ... , with the notable exceptions of Ida and Colonel Fitzsimmons

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  webmaster, Odyssey of the Mind, marching band, writing awkward blog posts ... sure about the hours, but there are several CPR/First Aid training sessions that I'll be going to over the next month, and then I get to take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away ... a plane in less than 48 hours heading back into the land of problem

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  District the other day, and the five of us spent a good while trying on ... the style of several people I’ve met at East Campus (and West campus as ... into tiny pieces, stir the cup, and add hot water. Put in a packet of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  any requirements. I walk into the classroom and a bunch of people wave ... back to my living group. It's the end of my last first day of undergrad ... , one on artificial intelligence, and none of my recitations are holding

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  spark of hope!! Then, I’d check the weather again an hour later, and it ... :50 am. The alarms ring. We get out of bed. We pull out our laptops and ... ’re just on autopilot. And then the site loads! And for the first time, I don

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  . I ran into Killian Court and flipped the bird. I gave everyone the ... about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental ... , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  Great Dome is one of the most iconic pieces of architecture on campus, and ... Dome as a medium of art, commentary, and celebration. The Dome has been ... For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  from the firehose this month. This post is about that, and it has a ... the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... two, and the fever again would conquer my body. From that point, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  sortof like LOST because of the interplay between past and the present ... two years. Clearly this will be one of the four; no need for discussion ... photographer and managed to convince me that the photos at the end make the show

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars ... minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... , so here’s a story about the one time when Bevi brought a glimmer of joy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023