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  The end of a chapter

  

  farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and ... focus on biochemistry, molecular and cell biology. Physiology to me, acts ... to the new environment weren’t easy! I also received tons of emails of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and ... organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  syllables so your goal is to get as many haikus as far as you can count Can ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  just get the library." Vincent Crabbe (Bella X. '25), to Neville: "Your ... you're in-game 24/7. On weekdays I usually entered game at around 7 or 8 ... forward to coming back and doing things. I'd guess that I was also on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  don’t break on a structure, more about what spices to put together in ... and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... to get a positive response. Each time, I have to bite my tongue to stop

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Electronics Lab at MIT So that's the first difference: to get the light going ... problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... robes required to eat by candlelight), and on the right the Pepys Building ... Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  science, want something to learn over the summer and possibly get a verified ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What ... to be said, but for now I'm going to get back to the reading... ... More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is ... myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don ... , diffuse, waiting to be molded into reality.

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... being in the 750-800 range doesn't have much impact on your chance of ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO

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

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  .  It means that if I need four hours to read this lecture slowly on my ... , that I make even more mistakes and get stuck on a period-looking comma ... focus on myself. When I look the next word I need to type. When I care

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  rush job to get it together before we left. Coupled with some array ... getting it on. So fast forward a bit: I'm there again at the end of August ... my seat and begrudgingly turn off wifi on all my TSA

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  FlipCam, skipped my Monday afternoon class, and biked on over to the ... we rely on technology despite its gaping holes. I don't mean to take ... [dare I say more competent] people working for him while he gets to enjoy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned ... had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  1880s. WXGS welcomes you wholly as you are and encourages you to be your ... Gender Studies. How to get access The Cheney Room is open to all women and ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  used on Saturday and the rest has since been distributed to other halls ... on competing next year for sure. To start, competitors had to define a ... little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... when I wanted to feel more like an adult. It got new shelves, then other ... list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015