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• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  essay dissipate, only to be replaced by the gnawing anxiety of wondering ... getting the job done, try teaming up with a friend to hold each other ... with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  in the post to get derailed, CJ. The people have come here for fortune ... workers who could get us access to the mailboxes. Alan: This was progress ... ="honestly, probably the quintessentially 'me' way to get COVID."]sightsinging barbershop

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the way down the linked page). I wanted to identify the cosplay roles played by two attendees of the Hong Kong Comics Festival & Game Fair in one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  members in the service so during the semester, it can be difficult to get ... Market to stock up on food in case I couldn’t get out during the blizzard ... getting the hang of it. While I’m no course 6, I think I'm starting to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  't get enough), I made my way to Tech East, one of the sections of CES. The ... phone overnight and was sitting by an outlet next to the TechCrunch panel ... wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  the failing gets to be primary. This might sound surprising, since ... to get the grades you want, and you'll do it, and everything will be ... reaction for the nth time because you just can't get it to work... well, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  solemnly completing what became a seventeen page application to my local [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... just like that, I started to love the school I would one day attend

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  the ability to transfer a trait from one creature to another ... material -- sets out not simply to educate but to also be part of the early ... -lab that allows users to carry out a bacterial transformation and enables the

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

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  that only gets seen by some poor undergrad grader. I was tempted to write ... entertaining. The one that I remember was told to me by my interviewer who took ... I get harassed about it all the time and feel an intense need to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  that image came up in my google search and I decided to use it). The ... the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  . To get to the peak, you have to pass through something like a dozen ... 't want to rent to foreigners to avoid paying tax 3) the apartment is too ... after consulting most of the Chinese people I know in China, we decided to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  research, and want to be part of the astronomy research community. What is ... student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of the student to engage in teaching and/or research in furtherance of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  by deciding to go to a relatively small liberal-arts school because the ... in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who ... among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.

  

  page on "The Match" has displayed the dreaded "coming soon" message for the better part of the fall. I apologize for this, and thanks to all of you who sent me gentle reminder emails. :-) The page has finally been

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  :Montreal (It's an inside joke, but we'll get to that) So the day we ... everyone in the car to only listen to "500 miles" by The Proclaimers for the ... barren one....) meaning we were nearly back to the border. Getting back

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  checkpoint to get home when we have the modern tech known as RFID cards and ... means you pick the way you want to live and you don't get charged through ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left the airport, drove to my grandma's house a few miles away, and spent

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  supervision is largely dependent on the supervisor. And thus we get to the point ... the lectured material and would like to get a further understanding that ... set can I get away with skipping". By the end of term your work will

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to ... The expectations for second semester seniors are high. By then, you ... pages or longer than fifty. The research can be performed in your Junior

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  , you'll get the i3 stuff in the mail. If you never had a chance to visit ... : Responses to Comments: (Lots of people helped me out by responding to questions, so gold stars to them! I'll repost the questions and answers here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006