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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  to go off of or do you know what you're doing like the back of your hand? when do you get to learn how to do all this anyways? Yes, you can ... lot of the experiments I do involve getting cells to take up foreign DNA

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene ... it And get your H on Go ahead, be gone with it Get your H on Go ahead, be gone with it [X6] Get your H on [Verse 2] I'm bringing benzene back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The ... I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  decision on equal terms, the institute and myself, with nothing to lose. Your waitlist decision gives you exactly that: the opportunity to be on ... an open mind. I am so glad to reflect on how I was able to grow as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on ... What are you writing your essays on? well I did one draft about a club ... How I got all 5s on my AP exams without even trying What question

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many ... on the waitlist to about 500 people, and many of those people accepted a place on the waitlist. But it just isn't ethical to keep that many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  that there's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to ... , your family, clubs, school, community, city, or town. How has that world ... ’t go according to plan. How did you manage the situation? (200-250 words

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• 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 ... : get the main thing (you'll know what it is)."]various soup noodle dishes[/annotation]to ... job detailing what ingredients and how much we needed to buy for our

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  so you can get more points than your opponent and win and get to go to ... on and how my design evolves. The past two weeks have been dedicated to ... comes down to chance. So on to this year's competition: "I have to f

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  . Every attendee had to work shifts to help put the event on, and I was a ... —if you wanted to dig in more, it’s laid out well on both the blogs and ... their class ring to celebrate being halfway through their journeys. The

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . Anonymous asked, do you have any advice on how to get to know professors? it ... State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the ... during office hours or after class. So it is possible to get to know your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research ... the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  'd answer. I know you're VERY excited, and probably want to start working on ... Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... [/annotation] and testing the headbands to see if the impact on your head changed at all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  speaks Spanish. "How do you say, 'we would like to sit outside?'" The ... shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I feel with the fact that we're almost right on the equator. Fortunately

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  *. Plus, “high-school dropout” had a nice ring to it (and I would get loads ... ability to make reasonable judgments, however. So, whether or not you're ... that matter most to them (you might get a surprise). Ask them about their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... course, to sit down with the course catalogue, your intended degree ... you want to soldier on, though, you can just look at the degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed ... to Market Basket. This involves going on the Red Line to the Davis then getting a bus to Lechmere from right outside the station. We both have not

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  daylight savings! - watching the clock on my computer go from 1:59 AM to 3 ... to it. Just minutes ago, I logged on to mitadmissions, and there ... 't stop once you're a college student (often, it gets worse, lol). * In many

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It ... weeks you read titles on the way to class. You are taking three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022