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• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  Responses to Comments: A: Hey Laura,stupid question : I just wanted ... ? So, we're going to backtrack to a little over a week ago. If you ... to a large construction initiative meant to "update the look and feel

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  didn't want to make it seem like I was judging them personally by vaguely ... (e.g. the swoosh in the Nerf logo was changed to a 2 to make it more ... upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in ... get a full ride. The best way to get a full ride at OSU is by being a ... . I made the elite show choir as a junior -- the only girl to make it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  . Albert's always there to help me if I get confused or hit a dead end. I ... Morgan (the professor in charge of our lab), it's my job to prepare a short ... finish the project by the time I graduate, I get to write the first draft

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... publications and websites. During the Admissions season, it is difficult to focus ... the months to come. For example, next month I'll be attending a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before ... where we had to lay out a detailed game plan for our final project. I had ... miss out on once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in order to do more work. So

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  I appreciated having a non-judgemental environment to experiment with ... time to properly support me, getting woken up at 5am every morning by my ... part of me still fears not being able to hold down a Real Job in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  back by tomorrow, when a bunch of my friends are going to Fire and Ice ... people interested in a double-major to make a rough class plan after first ... and whatnot. Do we actually meet up with someone to make a class plan or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  more questions, here is a quick FAQ to provide some more answers. I hope it is helpful to you. Q. Do you prefer the SAT or the ACT? A. We ... that make you look best. Q. Which SAT Subject Tests should I take? A. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  '12, not to be outdone, responded to the above by building a “short ... engaging. Bonus: class participation involves a daytrip to New York City ... into this class on a masochistic whim and loved it. Whether I add it to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  blood sugar is regulated through a very complex control system to make ... a half and hopefully I’ll be able to submit it to a journal by the end ... unorthodox methods. They are often motivated by revenge, seeking to settle real

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  up as a pencil on the Entries page it was probably red-flagged by half a dozen people. Their brains probably went "NOOOO! Snively's going to ... ! He doesn't possess the self-control to write honestly about a sensitive

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and ... good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  heart, and I didn't want to make things worse by allowing myself to get ... more emotions to spare, be petty. Make it a positive thing that can ... was a few more meters away to say things outright. I was a girl; I wasn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus ... strewn around the printer over the past few days. To make them less ... for me. People sometimes go by their username as a nickname, and since

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  STATISTICS Expose a "counter" to a gamma ray source, and make some statistical ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  case you want to pop by with a muffin and say hi. Don't forget the muffin ... physics psets which I'm just a little psyched about. So to share my ... Special Relativity with a brief intro to General Relativity is 1) a physics

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  among TBP members. Now, I have not always wanted to go to a Boston Celtics ... got to the game and got our tickets distributed without a hitch. One ... I just haven't been to a basketball game in, well, ever. The lights

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  it felt to be held by you”. it’s a strange line at first glance because ... ’t going to make it go away nowadays i adopt a related view, which is that ... doing so allows you to make sound decisions by seeing past the fog of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022