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  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  With our November 1 Early Action deadline looming (Friday!), we' ... below in the comments.  I will try to update this post with FAQs ... after the deadline. We are much more flexible and understanding with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  importantly, the chance to play with dolphins. For me, Florida was a bit of shock, mostly because the past few months have been filled mostly with running and lunges, with the occasional game of Gaelic football or ultimate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  with some paper, a pen, and my clarinet. A while later I had transcribed it. Technically it's a bass clarinet solo, but with an octave shift and ... pretty good. I printed some staff paper and actually wrote it out with ties

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  -------------------------------- Side note: Check out the hilarious Senior Ball Survival Guide, with ... interact more closely with some of your favorite professors from over your ... with faculty outside of the classroom/lab, our council pays up to $25 per

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT. Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4 ... stand in long lines in the Stata Center, and have lunch with students give

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  and prevent cancer. [...] The project, which might end up with a ... with one another and with sequences in healthy tissue, it should be ... longer unthinkable." So, just as my classmates did research with Prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... enjoy being a "Greek chorus" in relativity with Feli, aggressive nodding with Zimi in quantum, spending inordinate times working on relativity and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  physics, then I teeter-tottered with a few other majors during my quest for a UROP, and I am now pretty confident in sticking with physics ... the problem. I emailed at least five professors with research ranging

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  The first time I had a conversation with Archit Bhise I'm pretty sure ... aiming to get tonight? Do you have enough food to survive?  With whom will ... opportunities may come along and you may not even realize it if you come in with a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out ... few were kinda scary, but i got more comfortable with practice. after ... could only really perform with one of the companies, so i had to pick

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  -to brunch place to catch up with friends. My significant other and I have ... .[/annotation]:  The Friendly Toast is astir with early-morning chatter and the bubbling ... plates.  My eyelids are still thick with sleep—after Stef and I walked

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  with a stranger in any physical location at this point in time, i decided ... . the next day, i scheduled video calls with [annotation note="damn look ... that i did it. reconnecting with my friends was wonderful!! at MIT, you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  about staying in touch with my friends than I was when I was while I was ... also be FOMO—when I would hang out with people at night at my dorm, I ... this in some respect; you're chilling with some friends late at night

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  everyday physical objects, starting with "How To Make (almost) Anything" (aka 4.140 aka MAS.863 aka 6.943) with Zany Inventor Scientist Neil ... joints will fit snugly after getting cut out. For a polygon with n sides

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  materials after the deadline. We are much more flexible and understanding with ... directly to your MyMIT account from Naviance or the ApplyWithUs site. Materials requested through ApplyWithUs but sent to MIT through Naviance, fax

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with ... on the right. But enough about green team's product- on with the ... . Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  , and the bonus that I get to work with plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) as ... Biomedical Research, with shots from my lab and our greenhouse. It's a pretty ... use it in subsequent reactions, knowing I am working with the right

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  things are already really stressful with classes and problem sets and ... you sit or stand with both feet on the ground and remind yourself where ... this with anything. I like to count. When I'm near flowers or a plant, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  , mostly of my fellow Tetazoa and other East Campusers, but some with and of ... picture with Harry! Thanks to Will R. '16 for taking this picture! Here is Will: I also got a picture with Jake I. '16! We took a "selfie

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  to Admitted Student Gatherings, social events for mingling with other ... person...and to stuff my face with the alumni's homemade desserts! It was held at one of the alum's house and started with a typical question and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014