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• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  yourself to the next step, but at the same time, you have to know when it ... I want 5 MORE YEARS. By the time I graduate, I will have spent a third ... . Having never touched a pipette, today I work in a lab where we're trying to

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  to have a favorable view of your intelligence as an undergraduate and ... . (Adam says, "Girl! You have to graduate to go to graduate school!" Blah ... , but they would have been reasons to choose MIT if I had known them. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  last week: You can't plan your life out ahead of time. But if you just try to always make the best decision, your life will later read back as ... precisely have everything handed to them, but they still may be playing the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• 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.

  

  going? me: Back to the house… to study…. Them: False. You’re coming with ... : i mean, I have like 99.99% of your genes… Sarah: crap. i definitely ... asleep before I make it back to baker. Will return your genes later tonight

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  . :-) Also from Freshman Orientation. Over time, I have begun to look more and ... romantic getaway to Salem, MA. Remember: there will be a time to get off ... a burger + ice cream + jewelry trip to Harvard Square. It was a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  . It’s always neat to explain your work to people who know so much more ... any opportunity that you can to present any research that you have done ... to your professors while surrounded by burbling chocolate fountains and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  you make it. You have to take all the standard tests, fill out your name ... internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send ... of the Institute. So even if none of us will ever have to deal with the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E ... your benefit and doesn't contribute to your final grade. With that said ... assignment at the end of term where you have to meet with the corresponding

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  have your Spanish?” I didn’t; I had spoken maybe three full sentences in ... to me. Finally just before I left, his mom gave me a hug: “You’re ... related to the saying “you don’t know what you have until you lose it

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  that is the main goal.   I doubt I’ll have time to pursue krav ... I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in ... you have something horizontal to hold on to, which makes holding

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  past ideas about these essays, because maybe they're similar to yours. 1 ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT ... -essays may not represent you in all your 1080p HD glory. 2. You don't need to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  short. If you're like me, when I was about to graduate from grad school at ... have not yet named -- then I want you to know that it is okay, and that ... will have to endure. And it turns out the etymology of the word ‘endure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  you will enjoy. He says, "Remember that you're under no obligation to work in any particular group, so if you're not having a good time, it ... system. During down time, he was able to use this super stereo to listen to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  ? And also, how do I know where to find my host?" Your host should have ... with Adam's airplane stuff) so they can be together and not have to be around their crotchety hosts all the time. I hope you all know how you're

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  the time in the world now. To process and to think. But sometimes having ... quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to ... the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have ... forget to blog that last one? My bad, guys), but I don't think this time ... conjoined words having to do with Web 2.0 are generally frowned upon in those

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  have time to grade it and provide feedback. What actually happens in the ... supervisions tend to have awkward staring matches where no one wins. Time will ... Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  takes no time at all (if I so have to do that next semester). But, as many ... Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially ... likely to do things on time; don’t be afraid to change something about my

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  , ok, totally random, but i have to give your props (wow....i never say ... sheets you're allowed to have. You can fit more material on a typed note ... time have a pool in our backyard. My parents haven't totally gone into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  hard. I've struggled to scrape by with passing grades, and have failed ... the communities I've been a part of have been there to provide love and ... the hope that maybe this isn't true, and that maybe I'll be able to have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020