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  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology program! I'm leaving from Boston tomorrow at 7:50 AM and coming back Tuesday morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  suffer from being interminably on the internet. My parents always yelled at ... glass center table. My mind looked at the leaves. Those green and purple leaves. Why was my mind finding enjoyment in looking at plants? Was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  beautiful city in the world. I’m serious. It’s incredible. Look at this ... . So even on days when I’m stuck at home, going to office hours after ... just sit and stare at a river somewhere or peoplewatch in a park. I want

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  At MIT, the one-semester intro programming class, 6.00, can be broken into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting ... . Like many MIT freshmen, I liked being good at things, and I liked being

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  Moments ago, at 6PM Eastern Time, we released, via email, our ... enroll at MIT. As such, we are approaching the last of the many decisions ... enthusiastic!) offer. At long last, the deciding is almost done. Every year, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  . All these memories come to me at once, in the same time and place, and ... 's no reason for me not to begin, all i can do is stare at it and want to ... , from my future home at 2E in next house, from my classes. all these

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  -bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote ... ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year ... of people ask me whether it’s hard to be pre-med at MIT, particularly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  . Unless you are an international Olympian at being Kanye West (or uh, at Physics) you might be caught at some point, post acceptance giddiness ... up and figure out how I would measure up at that instant. What I didn

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  during your time at MIT. By the end of my four year stint I believe I was ... been created and had owners, likely administrators at MIT. So, what's a group of PSETing MIT students at 2 in the morning to do when they discover

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  against books at the dinner table is the fact that I was so stinkin' nerdtastic that I wanted to read at the dinner table... I DIGRESS. The point ... , so dinner at MIT looks a little different from dinner at home. Look Mom

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  't mutually exclusive (programming is fun, amiright?), they do at times hinder ... survived, and I'm pretty sure I passed" about a semester at MIT was exhilarating. Let's look back at the two aspects of MIT and see how they applied

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  , extracurriculars, office hours - so much going on that while I've started writing at ... following: 102 25 5 39 7 56 50 98 Any patterns jumping out at you? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  My classes start at 9:30 every morning this term. If the world ... . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... your chair. He spent four years waking me up at 5 AM for school, which is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a ... series of puzzles for the heirs to solve. At the end of the book, after ... foot (the American way of travel - look at how much Americans jog!) the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  nationwide (10pm et/pt on CBS). The concert occurs at Boston's Hatch Shell, a ... Ave bridge. Now that there are sound towers on the bridge (at ... closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at the Pavilion start

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn, meant waking up at 6:30 in the morning. Let me repeat that. Six-thirty in ... to my first class at 10:00, that's a pretty big switch. Just pointing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type ... famous cooking at Skullhouse. I originally planned on running the Back Bay ... can so seamlessly make me feel at home in my comfort zone and challenge

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Brooklyn named Abi (if you're reading this, hi Abi!). After a quick stop at ... at my recitation for 5.12 (organic chemistry), where I spent an hour ... ," Arrowsmith. (Who says MIT kids aren't cultured?) At 4:30, I'm heading over to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  How else would I know about all the awesome hacking that happens at MIT ... yet. GI JOE A free gift from the HASBRO building at Toy Fair. $25 ... love a class so much at the same time? 18.02 Book Wait, I took

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  little home of MIT and Harvard. The ceremonies traditionally take place at Harvard and the informal lectures that follow several days later are at MIT ... oh. I look at my watch. I stuttered for a bit. I look around at the 200

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008