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  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

   This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... ’t worry! If you are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited ... next? A: First, you should create a MyMIT account. Then you should

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a magnificent ceremony for all students (who each created a video), and there’d be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  neck, you can see a silver SUV trundling down Mass Ave. My room has one tiny window (this one) and one larger window facing east, which let in a ... blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  After going through a quarter-life-crisis and switching a lot about ... ". If any of those words gave you a giddy feeling, you should absolutely ... taught it, Fall 2012, he earned a 6.8/7.0 teaching score in the end of term

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  made online as a prefrosh even before CPW, thanks to the new admissions ... the time -- this is before there was such a thing as the App Store ... pioneers! I remember that a few enterprising prefrosh, while counting down

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even though it's a summer course) THAT COMBINES BIOLOGY AND MULTIMEDIA AND LETS ... (Creating Digital Learning Materials for Biology) This course is a student

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... other hand, there will always be a whatever ... ’s last home game of the year and, consequently, Senior Day, a day to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  dangling off towards the garbage can. There's a box sitting on my otherwise-empty bookshelf, a shirt and a purse strewn across my desk, an empty closet, a pile ... presentation and I had just found out that there was a small magnetic field

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  , preparing mentally for the arduous rides ahead. After a particularly hilarious ... cart for a store fixture, attempting to remove items for their own use. After a night’s rest, the team woke up and cooked breakfast, then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  's Cookie." Lewis, an art history major at Princeton, is a famous journalist ... eponymous book. Lewis first became famous writing Liar's Poker, a memoir of ... path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... of a blogger's life, having so much to blog but not enough time to ... catch you guys up on what I've been doing. I will start it with a post

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  Today, I accidentally dated a journal entry "18 August 2008". As I ... globe. It was a terrifying moment. Feeling old got me thinking about the ... admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  teaching me things that I will be using in my future career. It is a great ... . Having less than two years left, I have starting freaking out a bit about needing to eventually find a real job and about knowing what I want to do. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  spent a blissful afternoon walking around Provincetown. After a refreshing ... think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... a really nice custodian that would always come by around 2 AM that I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  : Come for a great night of international dinner, featuring cuisine from ... , Tiantian '13 can make a Beijing Roast Duck from scratch (SERIOUSLY! can you ... , you'll be able to help us out, learn a recipe or two, and enjoy a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  me any significant pain. 8.02 (Physics) is essentially a review of high ... the best books ever: Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ... they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  can watch a live webcast of the speech here: MIT President Obama Live ... The President will tour a research laboratory at the Massachusetts ... solar, battery, and wind technology, and a LED light experiment. Below is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  Hey folks. I've been busy, which still isn't a good excuse for not ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  wouldn't mind if maybe he reclined his chair in her space just a little bit ... 'm seated on a double-decker 8-hour night bus from Tokyo to Kyoto called ... everything happens for a reason. And so I'm trying to convince myself I am out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009