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  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas ... fail. Really. New opportunities will always arise for those who seek them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  almost forgotten the incredible amount of work it took for me to get here ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... college applications or homework or grades, and I just get to exist. Like last night: my mom was out of town and I needed to get to my math

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put ... wind in their sails, and aided (on a rainy but not-so-windy day) by

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  never ends, and now I won't be so lucky to get my application read by Matt and Ben), the first step to getting into medical school is submitting an ... it would be really difficult to sit still for 8 hours (yes, the test

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman ... not by much. ... I thought that what was happening to us was ... those are terrible metrics by which to measure an applicant or an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for ... country, and your job for that weekend is to faithfully represent it while ... piecing that world together. Today for AIRMUN, that means going to South

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  . Okay, so I get this major in robotics, and then what? I work for i ... 've forsaken for years in order to bang my head against various engineering ... world needs people like me for something. So, I went to my fall-back: the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  missing out, but I'm really not interesting enough for anyone to miss out on ... when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually ... ..., by Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America. The book goes through

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by ... two foils by making two model detectors to assess each foil's properties ... from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  and only having the fortune to know them for a year--or two years, or ... , procrastinating on pre-summer Design/Build/Fly lab cleanup by writing this blog post ... my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the flip side of the victim-EMT dealio. Which means that I get to deck myself in black, belted cargo pants (which took forever to find, by the way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  Artists in Residence, and has been bringing artists to Cambridge for more ... -member TATS CRU has been commissioned to create works for numerous corporate ... , and Chivas Regal. The Cru have also been commissioned to do murals for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  greeted by a screen like this: Click It is then up for you, the student, to answer the physics questions. Not so bad you say? Sure, I'll go for ... even ONE SECOND, you get a zero for all the problems that you didn

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  . I really want to improve my qualitative research skills: for that I plan to ... by the OWC courses, I helped to adapt graduate-level econ subjects to ... . This experience has sparked my interest in getting a job related to International

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to do a "Web Lab" for 10.302: Transport Processes. What that means is we ... " on a heater, and let it heat up for 20 minutes while the a computer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for ... this world that you are meant to do. For those of you on the waitlist

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  to be a model example for dealing with border spaces between cities ... Architecture & Planning students to Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico and Spain to explore foreign architecture and

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry in an effort to get back into ... , seeing as my immediate reaction to getting sick was thinking that this was ... narrowed it (haha, get it, ultimately) to JMS's Amazing Spider-Man run or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  like to get their boss' boss (or boss' boss' boss) to write the letter ... (say, Senator Foo or Congressman Bar). It's rare for these letters to say ... asking the aide in that politician's office that they worked for to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005