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• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  prospective students. The transition happened quickly and I didn’t have time to ... a moment to be thoughtful and appreciative about what opportunities being connected to MIT has provided for me. But most of all, I miss

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  decided to take 36 units, because we knew that senior fall would be busy ... place was just to work our way up to this class. And after taking it, we ... to move with sliders. Finally, we had to create the mesh by parsing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  hold closest to my heart, my self-described raison d'être, is “being a ... , that I am any sort of hero, nor do I want to be considered as such ... supposed to be my relaxation time. Each of those independent activities was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is ... flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to ... here are some projects I've done over the past year -- most of them quick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  . Sometimes it can just be a way to pass a few hours visiting a different world ... finished, that night. Partly, this is because I'm lucky enough to be a really ... that I'm here, I LOVE it! It is so amazing to be able to have any book I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  . And by "we", I mean mostly them, as I had to leave a few minutes in to ... . "What's the name, then?" "We're going to be called baysed area," I ... of the intern coordinators sent the invite to everyone else. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ways, and not all of these ways to be complicated are bad. As an example ... this to love, in that a loved one can be a source of rest, but at this ... day, it’s my go-to way of organizing a blog post. Or take To the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  found myself being pretty well described by [annotation note="this is the ... interested in MIT freshman year when I got to be on campus during ESP's splash ... would be absolutely amazing to be at for 4 years. Overall, I had a very

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  . About fifty percent of HDGC cases can be linked to a gene mutation in CDH1 ... gastric cancer is unfortunately very difficult to detect early by endoscopy ... at a time when I knew I’d be moving to Oxford, then later dedicating at

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  group together! We quickly made a Google Doc to brainstorm a list of food ... of being unconfident freshmen with cooking,[/annotation]we opted to ... (again, don’t ask) ways I discovered to cut an onion. Follow the video; I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  screensaver!!! This attention to detail should simply be forbidden. THIS IS SO ... EPISODES OF INFINITY TRAIN!!!!!! And there are going to be two episodes ... road trip song! Also the *way* that we got to see Tulips memories when

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  question got pointed to the help desk pretty quick. A lot of students come ... Delve, an AP preparation course run by ESP for area high schoolers. More ... Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  applesauce.[/annotation] To be done by whenever really, but I haven't posted in ... resonant news item to bring to class. To be done by Monday at 10 am. Time ... , storyboard, and make a sound list for a scene in 4.354. To be done by Tuesday

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  efforts by MIT Panhel to be transparent about how they're working on ... week, I arrived on campus full of that fear, which quickly seemed to be ... supported by members the whole way through. I got to meet so many cool people

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  somehow managed to kill it very quickly by either overwatering or ... way to show that P = NP"]proved P = NP,[/annotation] and ranked the ... managers for the show which meant she also had to be at the lighting booth

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you won't notice any change to your MyMIT account until we're confident that everyone has had a chance to receive his/her decision via mail (or telephone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  endless memorization and quickly change the topic. But to me, Biology isn ... simplified overview-- being aimed at the K-12 level-- so I wanted to include ... learning everything that they do. By comparing the genomic sequences to the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  be accessed by walking through my room. For all that, I didn’t want to ... shops, which I would come to love. I wonder sometimes what it would be ... from Los Angeles to Tucson when I was three"]once.[/annotation] I was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  service projects.  However, this year I decided to apply to be a mentor for ... those of you who have yet to arrive, no need to fret!  There will be ... Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  , we always say to be true: Turning away so many kind, generous, super ... the NSF. I'll be heading off to MIT this coming fall for grad school in ... In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018