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  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  August 2007 will MIT make a conditional offer i.e. I will need to get three ... MIT says a 760 is the same as an 800, it is impossible to get the ... could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  to all get an understanding of the situation at hand. Once we had a ... – Engineering Leadership. It’s a short class required by the GEL program, and ... ’t get to any sites that ended with .mit.edu whereas if you were on your

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... reason. The ~week after we got the notice to move out was... a lot. The timeline is a little hard to explain just because sooooo much happened, but I

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  lab equipment). Importantly, you want to get really involved in a ... applicant gets a 750 in math. If you get a 500 in math and you want to go into ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend

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

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time to get to my UROP at 10. Eight hours of sleep. SKILLZ, I TELL YOU ... about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... ), after you choose to matriculate. The DVD is a compilation of student ... Paul would have a lot to say about this as well). But anywhoo, I want to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a ... excited about CPW! There are far too many events for a single person to attend without the aid of a time machine, so to jump on the blogger

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  CPW seems to be, confessed that they are intimidated by such a new ... For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... , a lot of it was due to having a more outgoing personality. But it wasn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not get to hear from everyone, I hope to get a broad sense of community ... not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor was impossible to decline. Some of my colleagues are puzzled by this

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after ... health, and even have time to have fun once in a while. Although your

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  . Most of them are offered by several departments, and so I get a variety ... and a fancy tea selection. I have priority to get into the ... idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  Monday and Wednesday will provide a good catchup opportunity to get some ... Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things ... applicants right now who will absolutely get in RA. So to answer your question ... 't need to tell you that MIT is very different from all other schools. A

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many ... on my UROP but instead writing this. By the way, a few weeks ago I got

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  was able to get a lovely chicken and egg dish, much like the one that ... to get my third card of the year. Wednesday, Burton-Conner had a ... , remember in the summer when you used to get nice, well-cropped color pictures

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i ... on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  maintain a balance between the two groups. The best way to get to know us is ... , you'll get to interact with a sampling of the most active groups on ... , you'll be able to help us out, learn a recipe or two, and enjoy a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  better way to relax after a long week than a free a cappella concert by the ... A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  when it started getting rough. Now that we had a strategy it was time to ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008