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• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put ... , along with my ability to boss people around and show up on time, qualifies

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  pretty epic list! What will you do to make it on the MIT 200 retrospective? ... costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for ... on Hamsika's blog about the Boston Globe special feature on MIT and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... exploring new countries (like when she went to Iceland last summer!). She

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it yourself, too. Take a step back, and while reading your essay, try to answer ... trying to get across, then you need to fix something. If you don’t like the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  disciplinary or other action that occurs after your admission to MIT. We have the right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ; That evening: At half past eleven several autos drove up to the new ... people were unwilling to climb onto the rooftops. On October 6, 1916, MIT ... Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... Tech, the Russian counterpart to MIT, he went out to Moscow on weekends just

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your ... happened to be standing right there, going on about amide formation. And then

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my ... self-confidence in my ability to get into such a well-known and ... do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I ... . Note that a “party” is where you get to meet and chat with a new sorority ... . It’s very reassuring to know that if you’re grinding on a hard PSET

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... short, Shahab, yes, we will value your poetry. I look forward to hearing ... look forward to reading about your passions, too. Finally, with a month

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the ... striking up conversations with people on the subway! She would talk to them about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now what? At this point, your most likely option is to go back and ... length segments, on the XY plane, and then use a Box component to extrude ... cooking, if you just take the time to make your model right. I find recipes

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... when it came time to apply to college, MIT was naturally on the list, and ... an internship in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm pretty sure I was on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... world, take risks, try new things. I wanted to be at MIT. And so, I ... giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... instructions on page 27. 4. Give the SECONDARY SCHOOL REPORT FORM to your high ... grew, so did our footprint on the Infinite. We eventually went on to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022