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  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... -- once I tried to get my media out before the autoclave was done exhausting ... week to working 40 hours; while during term I'm actually limited by the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  kids. From September 2010 to May 2011 I barely scraped by on my tutoring ... idea how to get more specific.  My previous experience was all over the ... to understand what the value of my MIT education was- we'll get to that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  somewhere that gets it." Caroline '17 (Alpha Chi Omega) - "By the time Pi Day ... 't let it break you down. Don't let yourself be defined by where you get ... to do with it, check out these articles: The Pretender: Do I Belong at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  mindset. Previously, it has not been difficult to “get by”, as in to pass ... yourself to stop the urge to write your results down and get the report over ... you to possibly understand the molecular mechanism by which it resects

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  , a masters student (known affectionately by many as “Blue”) to get us ... confused that they managed to get Simmons right but somehow messed up the MIT ... aerodynamics testing there, and I was sent on a reconnaissance mission--to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... Breakerspaces that are run by students for students to, bluntly, make or break ... gets leaked and to my knowledge nothing dangerous is tested on volunteers

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  , getting to know you guys!) You will arrive at MIT at a time when the fight ... . Recently, Chris linked me to this article. Hey guys! This is the year to ... . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  all four grades were to be housed side-by-side. The result was an ... . Thanks again to Lydia for helping me get that online before I was an actual ... article.) You're using one crazy party from over sixty years ago to justify

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  response to “how” is that it was facilitated by parents and their connections ... blazed by others. It is essential, therefore, that students who aspire to ... simply sufficient.  Don’t limit yourself by asking what do I need to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  props are fun. I was reluctant to get robes at first, but some generous donations from alums allowed us to all get robes for free. I played as Neville ... MacGuffins, for lack of a better name. Another group was trying to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the

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

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... freshman to junior year. It felt good to me to get good grades because good ... -year-old stop crying by sitting her on my lap and reading to her. Or more

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... home. You know everybody by name and are always trying to uplift people ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... ranked, and by the time he was accepted, he had been to Junior Olympics ... NASA shuttle launch) was presented to him by one of the aero

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real ... . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  to a communal pot. The pot is multiplied by some multiplier (larger ... multiplier gets even higher, which only increases the incentive to defect. EG ... balance between people trying to deceive each other and people trying to get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  intersection by getting way into the first assignment for 16.83, which is to ... more than I knew. In time, I started to feel alienated by the corporate ... changed by one assignment, and that I wanted to do research on spacecraft

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  , however, I caught up with my cousins and by default that means going to bed ... ;   Afeefah: 100% good health. I’ve been trying to get into a ... ’ve been able to get through rejection after rejection and pure uncertainty

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021