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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  numbers into an equation, and then typing it out to make it look nice ... variables, and also got to see what it's like to watch the sun rise while you're ... As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  brings the world to your doorstep. You can meet a lot of new people, try ... , cultures, and so many other things as well, so we wanted to capture small vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  , I have been making time to do some awesome things at night :) I ... with a graduate student to review your assigned work. While I did enjoy ... are too many people to be able to ask all your questions. On another

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... sample" each year to make sure our writing skills were progressing ... prompt for this essay was to write a letter to your mother. Now, I'm not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  classes but lots of fun, aka that thing you constantly talk about with your friends back home to make them jealous.  Here's a quick recap of what I've been up to this past week, divided completely arbitrarily into three

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  process of applying to your institution. I just you to tell me about your ... make a good application. Awaiting your response the soonest! You're from ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  asleep before I make it back to baker. Will return your genes later tonight ... going? me: Back to the house… to study…. Them: False. You’re coming with ... too? I would like to make some cdna… you can be my virus lol me: I’ll do

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  . But to each his own! Whatever floats your boat! Insert other clichés ... much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... official close. I didn’t even have time to make it Karaoke Night with ATS

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  't have to listen to how embarrassing I sound? Well, I'm trying to make a ... wrangle with six different tracks in Audacity to make this. But so what? I ... sometimes, you don't have to be better at what you're doing. You can sing, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  learning how to make your slides something other than sans-serif black text ... supervisor's office to ask questions like help, you're the only real biologist ... , you could probably make a thesis out of what you want to do," and then I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  classes, they count for little to nothing in your final course grade. You ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you're ... psets, then it's almost guaranteed that you're not going to do spectacular

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  . Rationale: when evaluating the most direct route to your goal, be it the ... -twisting parking maneuver, you don't hesitate to overshoot your target and then back ... restaurants- all adorable in the way that somehow makes you want to re-watch The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... hopefully you're not like me, and will be willing to give it some thought. I ... place that makes you happiest. After all, it's YOUR college experience, no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  updates The deadline to schedule your interview if you are applying for ... will be applying to MIT, I recommend you go ahead and have your interview ... January test, you must list MIT as a school to receive your scores. And, of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  harder to notice them when you're not. This shouldn't surprise anyone, as it's much akin to trying to appreciate the shirt your friend is wearing ... your rope to the bolts so that if you fall the bolt will catch you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  don’t really care whether you remembered to place down your queen of ... overstate how badly I never want to make anyone feel like that. To be clear, I ... that I just want to be able to teach my friends things without making

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  , truffle making, and Perl. You can do all those things you wanted to do ... 's a tip for you when you make the trip out to Boston: if you are going to walk across the Harvard bridge, wear rainboots up to your elbows

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  --but I was a terrible debater. Not once did I ever make it to finals rounds ... when you’re debating you expect people to attack and slash to bits your ... the culture--when there’s something wrong, people are invited to fix it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  application. Also, I am not going to count the words in your essay. I have never ... show your essay to your favorite English teacher, tell him/her that your ... evenings. BoA's "My Name" is down to #10 this week. The #8 video, "Windy" by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on ... draft final for 8.022 to "make sure it was ok". And it is. :) My point is

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009