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  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  Admissions website. Read through all the tabs and pages. You will very soon ... -organized, friendly-looking, and provides a thorough overview of life at MIT and the ... . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  this technique to research the inner workings of cognition and treatments ... together for Techfair, from the sleeplessness of the weekend hackathon and its thirty boxes of pizza, to all the demos and prototypes that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  leather bound incunabula from the 15th century and first editions of Twain ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... the screening, especialIy in the company of young female engineers. And

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  on the ambulance this semester, one of which I'm currently on, and will ... you have a problem) and have one page left to write on the linguistics ... seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  . According to MFA website: "From the late works of Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and Rodin through the last creative outbursts of Giacometti and Picasso, the ... that one of the bulls rebelled and broke the neck of a matador, but that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of ... has been inexorably followed by the excitement and stress of FIRST ... on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more ... with at least four pressing tasks, and the burning question of what to do ... cilantro and cheddar on top and the cheese melted all over the starchiness of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  page limit -- say, one page front and back -- for the number of note ... the National Institutes of Health doing PCR and analyzing paternities in ... the course of the year. I worked full-time over IAP and summer, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  biology journals all the time; Eric Lander teaches 7.012 and is one of three ... pressure?) For some biology classes (mostly the first few cores, 7.01x and 7 ... faculty and staff who administer the labs. (Two of the people who run 7

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  this newfangled WYSIWYG editor? Gone are the days of WYGIWYG :( And why ... perfect thing to cool down the spicy taste of that steak and salsa roja ... -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  , and the sum of parts is always greater than the whole. I gained a much ... worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and ... were to first discuss the strengths of the story, then address a list of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... the cuddly plush that many of us know and love. Blahaj’s wide pink smile ... , the pandemic, and the protection and dismantling of LGBTQ+ rights. As an

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  A month and a half ago, I posted the first part of my series ... format of the whole thing, and what is expected of you, and 4 full ... instruments and a detailed understanding of the CCD system will be key to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The ... , absorbing impromptu lectures on algebra, number theory, and the analogy of ... , soaking in every word of the reader! And afterwards, when Boston shut down

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX ... all your stuff and move to a different dorm. The day after REX ends

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  :23pm and hammer out one last two-page reflection on the subject of ... start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever ... and the freedom of summer are 1) a 20.380 final presentation, 2) an HST

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  you change the world together and show the naysayers that each of you is ... split into two or three, but I didn't want to dominate the homepage ... Marilee perform with my band at ZBT's fifth annual Battle Of The Bands on

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a ... you to visit the MIT Museum and see his work in person. Here's one of ... of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  others is the foundation of our culture and community. Oftentimes we ... science, technology, and other areas of scholarship for the betterment of ... fact, this is the very definition of holistic admissions , and we have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  the experiences, out of which comes the growth and learning and ... different lot with whole libraries of crazy stories, we all tend to see the world from different perspectives, and a lot of times the words we use don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014