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  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  Match? A: If you have not completed all the testing requirements by the ... completed your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT ... : If I will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  your MIT ID early by traveling to Boston with a subsidized MBTA pass ... . Start here. First, from fellow bloggers: -- On getting to MIT from the ... here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  . Get a picture with Tim the Beaver. I have yet to get a picture with Tim ... that I was in! 2. Arriving at CPW and getting escorted to the second ... ’t actually exist. Definitely a first in my life! 6. Getting chosen as a blogger

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  . I take every chance I get to try new places for dinner. Otafuku has a ... interview with the Graphics Editor, I knew I had a new goal to join the Times ... this past spring when the Times came to campus to recruit. With a stroke

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  from a hardware store before class started. It was getting close to the ... still had a chance to get everything done if I caught the shuttle. I ran ... catch the shuttle at Next, missed it by a few seconds, tried to run to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  until midnight running experiments. Maybe it's just a testament to campus ... equipment." adjective -- pertaining to one's UROP "My UROP professor gave me a ... wage. Nice!" verb -- to work in a UROP "I'm UROPping until 5 today, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  disciplines, you need a master's to get competitive engineering jobs. You wouldn't get a PhD in engineering, though, unless you wanted to become a ... a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... also very hard). A few questions to be answered... From NY asks, "As ... send anything else in its place or a form waiver etc." Nope, no need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  microdosing sleep by taking 1 to 2 hours naps several times a day. On the other ... :15 — my alarm that tells me to get a snack from Red Door goes off. I decide to get a green tea this time, as well as an avocado toast. 1:42 — no

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  -Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, wanted me to get a bunch of stuff done over the next term, but I didn ... another lab to get ice, rotovapped it, added aryl grignard, and began a ... 's a salute to my top five favorite MIT all-nighters over the past two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  , “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and saw my blogger photo taped to my pillow.   IT'S A FULL 8.5”x11 ... walked back to my suite lounge after another round of classes and a meal at

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  lab of a Nobel Laureate, get a paper published, and go to professional ... follow Nance's "Beaver" act, but managed to draw a few laughs. I was disappointed to find out that people still didn't know what a UROP was! I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  your first trimester grades. Please be sure to get your official midyear ... ). The Midyear Report is to be completed by you, the applicant. The MIT ... Common App MYR which is filled out by your counselor and sent to Common

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  like crazy to put together a kick-ass performance. There's a song by ... ). A Family Christmas by The Piano Guys: This album is here because it ... But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect ... —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... the cell gets both a red (your gene) plasmid and a blue (unknown gene ... since the beginning of the summer. I've done a lot of assays to explore

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  than going into the midterm, and I managed to get an A in the class not ... low on a homework before, and I honestly was so confused as to how I ... problem set and all the rest by myself, and I found myself going to my first

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  . Surprises in the mail. I get a bunch of things shipped to me that I don ... rewarding to get a problem after thinking about it for so long. [caption id ... month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020