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• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  trail your way back to the beginning. It makes the solution significantly ... your final product. There is one big thing to notice here. With the ... one way to successfully solve a synthesis question, with the retro

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... the award on your proposal coversheet. If you're lucky, you can get ... easiest way to get a UROP, most people will be more willing to hire you and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  to get ready, dashing across campus as quickly as possible to arrive at ... , I emerge renewed, ready to face the day ahead of me. There is ... " for 21M.011, MIT's Intro to Western Music class. The piece is lovely and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  trying to claim that this is the best way to look at motivation. There are ... understanding why it is that people act the way that they do. I like to try and ... asking me to — it just happened. In some ways, this is the opposite of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  imagine the kind of support you’ll get. You don’t need to know what to ask ... spend their days listening and thinking of innovative ways to support the ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  simultaneously." The hope is that by analyzing a lot of languages, we'll see ... group like QRLG. Such is the nature of the UROP system: if you're curious ... along the way. But the most valuable stuff you get out of a UROP isn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  position in academic research. Here the pay is good, you get your own lab ... the “right” way. The only way to reach this high mass of paper is to ... the likelihood of it ever getting to a patient is very low. Many

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because ... situation in which obfuscation is to your advantage. You will frequently ... college application essays, this is a great time to revisit some of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  give me the confidence to be that way. I fear that once I'm kicked out ... "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... 't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  friend or a teacher to edit. Those essays are the best way you have to turn ... , though, because I'm not really getting to the heart of the issue. Spaghetti ... 't know what the most parsimonious common denominator is yet. So, just to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get ... experience. Revitalized by all of these things, I decided to take on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  .[/annotation] Get in contact with the coach early by sending an email. Make sure your ... , and I was lucky enough to get in!! I officially committed the spring ... I just want to quickly say that doing any of the things I suggest

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  that each September I seemed to get acclimatized more quickly: the ... Day is the day where pretty much everyone has to meet with their advisor ... ! (Note: this is a long list; feel free to skim if your interest wanes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to concentrate on assignment. Fail It is 2:34 am Eat breadsticks Try to concentrate; fail Google how to concentrate Wikihow how to concentrate

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  financial aid deadline is quickly approaching. Be sure to have all of your documents to the financial aid office by February 15. I haven't forgotten ... get us your Mid-Year Grade Report as soon as possible after the grades

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  , I get nothing.  tick Everyone here is brilliant. How the fuck did I get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... . MIT is not the academic utopia I imagined it to be.']MIT classes take so

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  next to it, but actually turned out to be all the flipping way across ... duty to watch one hour of television a week and it's probably the best ... every spare moment in that time period looking over my notes. By the way

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 indicates a loosely-packed schedule; the lower your time-to-pee, the tighter

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  is, to the best of my knowledge, particularly strong in ... was that the variable used to represent the third dimension is z ... on using tools like fMRI to find out information about the way people

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  , approved my classes, and (essentially) said Give it your best. At the end of ... myself. I just… decided to accept that the best learning happens when you ... that best supported my mental health, and gave me the opportunity to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025