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  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  may take many forms. What is it that you look for in an applicant?, some ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... is generally because they want to come to MIT, and they want me to tell

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  . Apparently the museum is a popular destination for MIT alums, because the ... , admission is free for MIT students -- so when we found out that they held ... the big interests of the lab is to figure out which genes cause neural

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  research is the UROP project that I've been working on for almost two years now (making games is hard oops). It derives from my grad student ... 'more creative'. Now this is pretty cool, because it means that embodied

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  applicant, decisions day is either here or has passed, depending on when you ... post to remind you that success is something you pull out of yourself ... kind of change entire community can bring together. This is what I wanted

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... thinking about how I would approach these essays. Although nothing here is ... "essays," but short answers, so they can be easily answered. My advice is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  trees are all flowering just like they were, and the weather is sunny but ... hosed now. My classes are all different, of course, and so much else is ... of bed in 20 minutes is unfortunately pretty good for me these days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up ... feel good But because failing to do them is guaranteed to make us feel

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  blogosphere. The MIT+K12 Videos Program is managed (and executive produced) by ... Out Loud is how fellow blogger Anastassia B. '16 made her awesome video ... , they developed some digital media literacy – what I would argue is the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my host teaches Algebra I, Algebra II, and Pre-Calculus. The high school is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... struggling with a big decision. Writing itself, of course, is a structured way

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  institution is like. College is a place where you'll be for the next 4-6 years, perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... my aquarius friends/family members is their ability to not internalize

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... the multiple contusions have healed.) Matt is not actually my TA, but I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  who is now my son's godfather) at least once a month ever since ... is to not let your relationship interfere with your college experience ... fine, however, is missing out on a lot of defining experiences because

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  together amidst murals and parks and multifamily homes, is wonderful and ... scene is HMart, which many bloggers have posted about, and where I also ... moved out; the Trader Joe's, which has its own devoted cult, is a bit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... dorm is pretty uniform in culture (e.g. Maseeh). Explore as much as ... Gregor has mostly singles, so its actual cost for an average freshman is higher

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... speaking Shanghainese, and now I remember that moment in English, which is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... moment, promising prospects, but still little that is concrete. In the post ... and dive in. And while there is more pressure the deeper you go, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  ’ve never had froyo or do not like it. But my concern is: although froyo is ... : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  : Person A: Pass the salt, please. Person B: Is your request a function of the underseasoning of the fish sticks, or is it a function of the ... , as explored by Einstein et. al., is especially useful for sublimating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  have learned this past year: 1. What machine learning is And what it ... do useful things. 2. It is sometimes okay and necessary to run away from a situation and not look back or apologize. This is number 2

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017